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Title: cool pic
Post by: FLOOB on August 05, 2016, 06:12:06 PM: (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Peacekeeper-missile-testing.jpg)

Attack of the mirvs. One missile, eight warheads.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: DaveBB on August 05, 2016, 06:33:41 PM: Why is the trail lit up? Is it due to heat (friction) or some other reason?
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: puller on August 05, 2016, 07:23:11 PM: Testing of the Peacekeeper reentry vehicles, all eight (ten capable) fired from only one missile. Each line represents the path of an individual warhead.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: DaveBB on August 05, 2016, 07:52:21 PM: I'm asking what actually made the light? The warheads are unpowered on reentry.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: puller on August 05, 2016, 07:58:26 PM: Each line represents the path of an individual warhead.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: FLOOB on August 05, 2016, 08:17:04 PM: Puller is trying to Ken M you bruh.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: puller on August 05, 2016, 08:23:16 PM: No...I found this pic on Wikipedia... Thats its caption...the lines are lines superimposed... Not lines of light...each line "represents"
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: FLOOB on August 05, 2016, 08:41:25 PM: The lines aren't superimposed.

LGM-118A Peacekeeper missile system being tested at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands. This is a long exposure photo showing the paths of the multiple re-entry vehicles deployed by the missile.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: DaveBB on August 05, 2016, 08:58:52 PM: I'm just going to pretend they are glowing hot from reentry and that's why they are bright objects and not dark (like a bomb or artillery shell).
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Post by: Meatwad on August 05, 2016, 09:15:49 PM: Exposure length cant be hardly any time at all otherwise the waves and clouds would be nothing but a blur depending on the speed and motion.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: Serenity on August 06, 2016, 01:07:06 AM: Quote from: Meatwad on August 05, 2016, 09:15:49 PM
Exposure length cant be hardly any time at all otherwise the waves and clouds would be nothing but a blur depending on the speed and motion.

Well, I mean, how long would it REALLY take those warheads to travel that path?
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: Bizman on August 06, 2016, 02:54:48 AM: Quote from: Meatwad on August 05, 2016, 09:15:49 PM
Exposure length cant be hardly any time at all otherwise the waves and clouds would be nothing but a blur depending on the speed and motion.
Quote from: Serenity on August 06, 2016, 01:07:06 AM
Well, I mean, how long would it REALLY take those warheads to travel that path?

Given they can travel 4 miles/second at sea level, the exposure length to stop the waves and clouds wouldn't be an issue. 1/60s would be more than enough, even 1/120 might do. For what I found about the image, I couldn't find the camera information. In one source it said "time exposure". The oldest source from where Wikipedia had downloaded the image wasn't accessible any more.
Title: Re: cool pic
Post by: Maverick on August 06, 2016, 11:59:57 AM: Quote from: DaveBB on August 05, 2016, 07:52:21 PM
I'm asking what actually made the light? The warheads are unpowered on reentry.

Nasa has perfected the space based long range light saber. DUH!!!