nealfor wrote:I'm just sayin: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/09 ... -dump.html
The one I saw up close (maybe 50 feet away) was definitely
not a cloud of urine.
But that said, everything about it except its appearance is just speculation. My personal tentative belief is that it was a type of matter mostly incompatible with our own, and took a shape that maintained its integrity as best it could, like an air bubble under water. In this analogy, the water not only causes the small quantity of air to assume a particular shape (roughly spherical) when it naturally has no shape at all, but also gives the drop of water an
apparent surface exactly at the intersection of the air and water, where the bubble seems to have a highly reflective surface when in fact it has no such surface at all.