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What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:56 pm
by seemslikeadream
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The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
from UrbanSurvival
BULLETIN! Holy Crap!
Screen print and save this page immediately because the triangular shaped right smack in the middle of the picture on the NASA Astronaut Photography page sure as hell looks like a TR-3B which (do we believe it?) doesn't exist!

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:04 pm
by NeonLX
Well, would you look at that...the thing is up and out of the atmosphere.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:11 pm
by MacCruiskeen
If that's real, it must be pretty damn big, too.

Google search results for 'TR-3B'.

Can't be cheap. Here's a Wired article from 2009 that probably greatly underestimates the funds available: Pentagon’s Black Budget Grows to More Than $50 Billion

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:16 pm
by barracuda
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It's probably just a... you know, one o' those... just a... um, c'mon, that's just a... It's just a piece o'... debris, or something! That's it - debris!

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:19 pm
by Wombaticus Rex
Metadata:

Identification
Mission: STS61C Roll: 31 Frame: 3 Mission ID on the Film or image: 61-C
Country or Geographic Name: ATLANTIC OCEAN
Features: SPACE DEBRIS

Center Point Latitude: Center Point Longitude: (Negative numbers indicate south for latitude and west for longitude)
Stereo: No (Yes indicates there is an adjacent picture of the same area)
ONC Map ID: JNC Map ID:

Camera
Camera Tilt: High Oblique
Camera Focal Length: 100mm
Camera: HB: Hasselblad
Film: 5017 : Kodak, natural color positive, Ektachrome, X Professional, ASA 64, standard base.


Google Earth KML file: http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/scripts/sseop/P ... TS61C-31-3

Note that me posting this info is not an endoresment of this info. Note that me refusing do endorse this info doesn't mean it's not space debris. Triangular panels are not uncommon.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 5:53 pm
by Elihu
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Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:04 pm
by seemslikeadream
Elihu wrote:
missid2.png
:lol2:
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Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 6:27 pm
by NeonLX
TR3B, uncloaked:

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Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 9:24 pm
by freemason9
NeonLX wrote:TR3B, uncloaked:

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That's tragic.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:16 pm
by Fred Astaire
Don't be so silly. It's the NASA guy's cursor.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:20 pm
by dqueue
barracuda wrote:It's probably just a... you know, one o' those... just a... um, c'mon, that's just a... It's just a piece o'... debris, or something! That's it - debris!

It's clearly swamp gas. If you squint, you see it.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:28 pm
by Wombaticus Rex
MacCruiskeen wrote:If that's real, it must be pretty damn big, too.


Truesay!


Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:43 am
by Luther Blissett
The "what I believed to be" a TR-3B that my partner and I saw a few years ago flying over an industrial part of the city late at night was quite massive - much bigger than a commercial jetliner, perhaps 3x the length.

It's difficult to judge the distance from the viewer in these two photos - it's possible it was relatively close

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 2:50 am
by DrEvil
Duh. It's obviously Superman.

Re: What is this triangular shaped thing?

PostPosted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 3:02 am
by barracuda
freemason9 wrote:That's tragic.


The top's down on both of 'em.