Satelites?

[Axel]

Was inland country a while back and was laying under the stars with my better half talking rubbish when we saw a most bizzare movement in the stars.

What we thought was a star started to move slowly south, so we thought it must be a satelite doing its thing, but then it moved at a right angle at a phenominal speed about 3cm (i'm sure that equates to a big distance in space) across the sky and then stopped.

We saw that happen twice in as many nights. We asked around and everyone laughed us off and said they were satelites.

Do satelites move that fast?

 

[Kilgore Trout]

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[Axel]

Both of us at the same time?.....

Nah, don't buy it

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Both of us at the same time?.....

Nah, don't buy it

The power of suggestion can be quite powerful.

 

[Axel]

If that be the case, why couldn't it work all the time?

 

[McBell]

Both of us at the same time?.....

Nah, don't buy it

Guess it depends on how badly you want it to be whatever you want it to be.

 

[horizon_mj1]

Was inland country a while back and was laying under the stars with my better half talking rubbish when we saw a most bizzare movement in the stars.

What we thought was a star started to move slowly south, so we thought it must be a satelite doing its thing, but then it moved at a right angle at a phenominal speed about 3cm (i'm sure that equates to a big distance in space) across the sky and then stopped.

We saw that happen twice in as many nights. We asked around and everyone laughed us off and said they were satelites.

Do satellites move that fast?

I have seen satellites move before and they do move quickly, but I have never seen them change direction. I know they can change direction but from what I understand this can not be done quickly (unless this technology exists and they just haven't told anyone yet).

 

[Axel]

I'm sure there's a lot of stuff we don't know about yet...

 

[Maille]

no they do not. But airplanes can seem very small and our minds can give us lots of strange optical aulltions to where things look smaller or larger than they realy are. The airplane could have been real high up and then seem to be moving faster than usal. Also arcording to where you live you may have seen a comet or space shuttle. You may need to do some reascreach on your area to find out eactly what you saw.

 

[Twilight Hue]

It might be a refraction of light due to the atmosphere. That might help explain the sharp angle the object took of which the sudden variation in speed suggests that possibility.