Missile launch

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Fascinating, frightening missile launch trail I shot tonight outside D's. When Vandenberg AFB shoots off a big rocket we get these, usually in the early evening. As a child I was terrified of them because I thought it was the beginning of a nuclear war. Now I'm just pissed off because they're testing a dumb expensive antimissile system.

In any case, it stops everyone in their tracks for a bit to consider the huge thing in the sky we just made.

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[fjarlq.livejournal.com]

Very cool. A couple days ago, the Astronomy Picture of the Day was a similar photo from about the same angle/time: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050928.html (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050928.html)

(http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050928.html)