{"id":30736,"date":"2010-11-14T09:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/hit-or-missile-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:13:31","slug":"hit-or-missile-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/hit-or-missile-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Hit or missile | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I got a bazillion emails and tweets about the so-called \"missile launch\" off of LA the other day. I was on travel and couldn’t really write about this, and by the time I could it was already being shown to be a plane contrail. And I wouldn’t even write about it now, but I have to link to this clip from The Daily Show where they pretty much nail it<\/a>: <\/p>

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart<\/a><\/td>Mon – Thurs 11p \/ 10c<\/td><\/tr>
Missile: Impossible<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
http:\/\/www.thedailyshow.com<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
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Daily Show Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>Political Humor<\/a><\/td>Rally to Restore Sanity<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

The part about the helicopter pilot is magnifique!<\/em> That’s a perfect example of skeptical thinking. And Occam’s Razor slices pretty well here; what’s more common in LA, an airplane or a missile launch? It shows the relevance once again of the old skeptical adage: If you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.<\/p>

Unless you live in the African grassland. Or near a zoo. Whatever. <\/p>

And I’ll add that a guy appears to have figured out not only that it was a plane, but what flight it was<\/a>, which I note simply because I know the comments to this post will soon be filled with conspiracy theorists who will claim this is a coverup for a transdimensional porthole like the one over Norway<\/a> or Australia<\/a> that were certainly not rocket boosters even though all the evidence points that way because they just know it and use words that sound sciencey but are actually the blog-comment equivalent of an Ogden Nash poem.<\/p>

Say.<\/p>

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Tip o’ the tin foil beanie to reddit<\/a> for that last bit about the plane spotter.<\/em><\/p>

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