{"id":910,"date":"2009-12-10T07:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/2009\/12\/10\/reading-for-december-10-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T07:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T14:00:16","slug":"reading-for-december-10-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/2009\/12\/10\/reading-for-december-10-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading for December 10, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"scrd_digest\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/-bnqdX-gSJ8\/giant-mysterious-spiral-takes-over-the-skies-of-norway\" rel=\"external\">Giant Mysterious Spiral Takes Over the Skies of Norway [Science]<\/a>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Shared by  Digittante<br \/>\n<br \/>\nPerhaps Someone Was Beaming Home? &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/fenomen_over_borras_340152c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawker.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2009\/12\/500x_fenomen_over_borras_340152c.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky <a title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #giantspiral\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/giantspiral\/\">giant spiral<\/a> was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. <b>Updated with video<\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Could it all be a hoax? Maybe it's a massive joke, but all kinds of Norwegian news sites are reporting on it. According to NKR\u2014Norway's national TV channel\u2014it could be related to a rocket fired from a Russian submarine in the White Sea. The Russians are denying any part on it at this at the moment. Nick Banbury, a witness located at Harstad, described how it all happened:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We are used to seeing lots of auroras here in Arctic Norway, but on my way to work this morning I saw something completely unexpected. Between 7:50 and 8:00 a.m. local time, there was a strange light in the sky. It consisted initially of a green beam of light similar in colour to the aurora with a mysterious rotating spiral at one end. This spiral then got bigger and bigger until it turned into a huge halo in the sky with the green beam extending down to the earth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As hard as it is to believe, you can't dispute the fact that the strange spiral was witnessed and <i>recorded<\/i> by thousands of people from hundreds of miles away, which means that the phenomenon occurred at a very high altitude. Even Phil Plait from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/\">Bad Astronomy<\/a> agrees that this is real, and says that it was probably a rocket out of control.<\/p>\n<p>So barring any epic group joke, expect your new alien overlords to arrive at any time now. We can only hope they are all peace-loving voluptuous blondes with blue eyes. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.altaposten.no\/lokalt\/nyheter\/article316411.ece\">Altaposten<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg.no\/nyheter\/vaer\/artikkel.php?artid=596359\">VG<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrk.no\/nyheter\/distrikt\/nordland\/1.6902336\">NRK<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=09&amp;month=12&amp;year=2009\">SpaceWeather<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/2009\/12\/09\/weird-giant-spiral-seen-in-sky-over-norway\/\">Universe Today<\/a>\u2014thanks Gonzalo Oxenford]<\/p>\n<p><i>If you know Norwegian and have any information, contact me on AIM or by mail.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0bf05d045dd648aeddf6dda2b2f27399&amp;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=0bf05d045dd648aeddf6dda2b2f27399&amp;p=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\" border=\"0\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=-bnqdX-gSJ8:DbpQQEDG0nY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/-bnqdX-gSJ8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"scrd_credit\">Digest powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/geekfactor.charrington.com\/projects\/rss-digest\">RSS Digest<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Mysterious Spiral Takes Over the Skies of Norway [Science] Shared by Digittante Perhaps Someone Was Beaming Home? &gt;&gt;&gt; People are freaking out all over Norway because of what you are seeing here. According to Norwegian news outlets, the spooky giant spiral was seen, photographed, and recorded on video from all over the country. Updated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/2009\/12\/10\/reading-for-december-10-2009\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Reading for December 10, 2009\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/6FingerHand-Small.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBlcz-eG","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.digittante.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}