A Twinkle in the Sky: Difference between revisions

Any object, if [[Home Run Hitter|launched with]] [[Megaton Punch|sufficient force]], will sail clean over the horizon and vanish into the distant sky. A moment after it disappears, a four-pointed "twinkle" will appear in the spot where it was last seen, sometimes rotating briefly, along with [[Audible Gleam|a high-pitched "ringing" noise]]. If the object is potentially explosive, it will blow up ''after'' the twinkle. It's also sometimes used to show that something is coming down from the sky. This particular use may be [[Truth in Television|true,]] as in the [[World War II|Second World War,]] Japanese AA gunners on ships were trained to watch for the gleam of an approaching dive bomber's canopy. Because after that, the only indication that something was coming was the [[Oh Crap|whistling of bombs approaching.]]