FARK.com: (4869556) So how do you top that spiral over Norway? Well, if you're Russia, make a giant pyramid hover over the Kremlin

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		So how do you top that spiral over Norway? Well, if you're Russia, make a giant pyramid hover over the Kremlin (io9.com)		131
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jehovahs witness protection

2009-12-19 11:22:29 AM

Told ya Putin was an alien :P

ecmoRandomNumbers

2009-12-19 12:18:43 PM

In other news, mylar can be made into any shape balloon you wish.

cretinbob

2009-12-19 12:38:09 PM

I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral. Then there is the question as to why it was perpendicular to the trail that was ascending when the whole scene was front lit. I could have bought it being an image prjected from the ground to the clouds.

This pyramid though I'd like to see more pics and video of.

Theaetetus

2009-12-19 01:16:26 PM

cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral. Then there is the question as to why it was perpendicular to the trail that was ascending when the whole scene was front lit. I could have bought it being an image prjected from the ground to the clouds.

The best part of the the whole spiral is that it exposes retards and morons like yourself.

CitizenTed

2009-12-19 02:12:36 PM

It's an Egyptian street light.

GreenAdder

2009-12-19 02:42:48 PM

ecmoRandomNumbers: In other news, mylar can be made into any shape balloon you wish.

Oh, no! Poor little Товарищ фальконет is on that balloon!

Dallymo

2009-12-19 02:46:53 PM

FTFA*: Perhaps this is a new Russian superweapon that actually works?

"Works" by...hovering in a not-too-menacing way? OOOooooeeeeoooooo...spooky!

*and I use "A" in the most generous sense of the ~~word~~ letter

E.S.Q.

2009-12-19 02:48:31 PM

How else are they supposed top sharpen their razors?

Fritriac

2009-12-19 02:48:45 PM

CitizenTed: It's an Egyptian street light.

I'm too late ... again.

u458625

2009-12-19 02:49:42 PM

NIRIBU ZOMBIE JESUS IS RETURNING
EVERYONE SHOP HARDER

E.S.Q.

2009-12-19 02:49:59 PM

Unavailable for comment:

img411.imageshack.us

OnmyojiOmn

2009-12-19 02:51:12 PM

This will end well.

2.bp.blogspot.com

ChromaticKid

2009-12-19 02:52:44 PM

cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral.

Here's an excellent video explanation: Norway Spiral (new window)

/not a rick-roll... it's a Norway spiral!

imanadikt

2009-12-19 02:56:09 PM

Anyone else see a face in the building on the right?

wildsnowllama

2009-12-19 02:56:13 PM

Now we just need an incomplete sphere over San Fransisco! (new window)

INeedAName

2009-12-19 02:57:53 PM

ChromaticKid: cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral.

Here's an excellent video explanation: Norway Spiral (new window)

/not a rick-roll... it's a Norway spiral!

Thank you for posting that, I will admit to not understand this whole thing when it was initially, but once I watched that video the whole thing made total sense!

/Science ftw

Achilles381

2009-12-19 02:58:24 PM

The Russians still have a Stargate?

maxheck

2009-12-19 02:58:32 PM

I am convinced that digital photography, Adobe Aftereffects and Photoshop are all alien technologies insinuated into Earth culture so that when aliens *do* get recorded no one will ever believe it.

Sneaky little green bastards.

HagarTheHorrible

2009-12-19 02:59:51 PM

cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral.

Failed Trident missile test
www.rockets.jeffhove.com

hot, of course

Tachikoma

2009-12-19 03:01:02 PM

OnmyojiOmn: This will end well.

For the Laughing God!

redwards29a

2009-12-19 03:01:56 PM

That seriously looks like a farking kite.

Theaetetus

2009-12-19 03:03:27 PM

HagarTheHorrible: cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral.

Failed Trident missile test

hot, of course

No, that obviously has a working guidance system that's so good as to make a perfect spiral. Wake up, sheeple! It must have been giant laser projectors!

Rohasman

2009-12-19 03:04:22 PM

Achilles381: The Russians still have a Stargate?

Not really... we were renting theirs until SG-1 went back in time and messed things up, but were able to leave enough clues to send themselves back to fix things... at which point they were able to make everything Stargate command POV perfect.

NYRBill

2009-12-19 03:04:41 PM

slight threadjack:
who saw this on the right and knew the original show?
http://io9.com/5410880/joshua-jackson-to-fight-ufos-in-the-1970s
end threadjack

edg_mule

2009-12-19 03:04:41 PM

Anyone else more interested in the story titled, "When will white people stop making movies like "Avatar""?

I read it, I do agree that Avatar was just a big ol' allegory about how the native americans were forced off their land and nearly all wiped out. Still i'm white and don't fantasize about going native and being a leader of a tribe of people.

Fear the Clam

2009-12-19 03:04:57 PM

Thud'nBlunder

2009-12-19 03:05:13 PM

Someone shoulda clicked on that thing so we could all watch the video.

RonEdwards

2009-12-19 03:05:41 PM

ChromaticKid: cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral.

Here's an excellent video explanation: Norway Spiral (new window)

/not a rick-roll... it's a Norway spiral!

that was actually pretty friggin' good!

/and here I was 'spectin to get rick-rolled

RonEdwards

2009-12-19 03:08:28 PM

edg_mule: Anyone else more interested in the story titled, "When will white people stop making movies like "Avatar""?

I read it, I do agree that Avatar was just a big ol' allegory about how the native americans were forced off their land and nearly all wiped out. Still i'm white and don't fantasize about going native and being a leader of a tribe of people.

i still think its more of the "human nature vs. nature" film. It was definitely more about the use of renewable resources and the ecosystems.

A-Rth-Urp-Hil-Ipdenu

2009-12-19 03:09:42 PM

So the Russians have street lights too? Neat!

ActionJoe

2009-12-19 03:09:55 PM

/AG-3 satellites from orbit
//only way to be sure

edg_mule

2009-12-19 03:13:15 PM

RonEdwards: edg_mule: Anyone else more interested in the story titled, "When will white people stop making movies like "Avatar""?

I read it, I do agree that Avatar was just a big ol' allegory about how the native americans were forced off their land and nearly all wiped out. Still i'm white and don't fantasize about going native and being a leader of a tribe of people.

i still think its more of the "human nature vs. nature" film. It was definitely more about the use of renewable resources and the ecosystems.

Yeah I can see that angle too. I guess Hollywood just decided to wrap two of its favorite soapbox scenarios into one. I enjoyed the film but I had to turn my analytical brain off for it.

andrew131

2009-12-19 03:13:38 PM

Maybe the Russians were detonating nukes in space again?

Probably not, I like that youtube explanation.

Cornwell

2009-12-19 03:14:05 PM

On a more serious note. The thing over a rather thinly populated region of Norway had several pretty good shot caught both as still images, long-exposure images and as video.
This thing hovers in the air over a city that has 2-2.5 times the population of Norway, and there are two videos of it worth mentioning?

thatguy784

2009-12-19 03:16:25 PM

mesohorny

2009-12-19 03:16:28 PM

Not falling for it Dmitry Richard Heenelov.

Ishkur

2009-12-19 03:18:51 PM

Pyramids and spirals showing up over cities?

mechafans.com

The angels have come. 5 more years, people. Let's get the Evas ready before they go after Neo Tokyo 3.

images.greencine.com

Phil McKraken

2009-12-19 03:21:06 PM

You people are slipping,

mssparky.com

Jonesy Boogieman

2009-12-19 03:21:17 PM

cretinbob: I'm still not quite getting tghe whole "it was an out of control missle" thing, unless the guidance system on it was so good that it was able to make that perfect spiral. Then there is the question as to why it was perpendicular to the trail that was ascending when the whole scene was front lit. I could have bought it being an image prjected from the ground to the clouds.

This pyramid though I'd like to see more pics and video of.

Video (new window) from last week.

Gormenghast

2009-12-19 03:24:03 PM

This episode of When Geometry Attacks narrated by Euclid.

olddeegee

2009-12-19 03:25:23 PM

I was picturing something more like this.

cyks

2009-12-19 03:26:54 PM

Cornwell: On a more serious note. The thing over a rather thinly populated region of Norway had several pretty good shot caught both as still images, long-exposure images and as video.
This thing hovers in the air over a city that has 2-2.5 times the population of Norway, and there are two videos of it worth mentioning?

eh... North Korea has almost 5x the population of Norway, but do you think we'd hear anything from them if something like that were to happen there?

/I mean, besides from spy satellite footage.

Felis_Panthera

2009-12-19 03:27:51 PM

Achilles381: The Russians still have a Stargate?

anywhere but Fark and I would be ashamed to admit this... but the first thing I thought was "That looks like an Al'kesh"

chewychomp

2009-12-19 03:28:01 PM

Podna

2009-12-19 03:30:20 PM

ActionJoe: /AG-3 satellites from orbit
//only way to be sure

That episode was depressing yet was totally cool

Knucklepopper

2009-12-19 03:31:16 PM

Felis_Panthera: anywhere but Fark and I would be ashamed to admit this... but the first thing I thought was "That looks like an Al'kesh"

I am so happy that I don't know what the fark you're talking about. So happy.

Slowdog

2009-12-19 03:31:39 PM

Wanted for questioning:

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