If your goal is to mind control people, spraying chemicals at high altitude over uninhabited areas is a really stupid way to do it. Not to defend the anti-fluoride people, but at least water supplies make sense as a delivery system.
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There is one impact these vapor trails have on our weather: they contribute to stabilizing temperatures. After 9/11 when almost all air travel was grounded for days daytime temperatures went up and nighttime temperatures went down-- the added cloud cover appeared to reduce sunshine during the day and trap heat at night.
But it’s not a conspiracy, it’s just physics.
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ships too
Regulations imposed in 2020 by the United Nations’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) have cut ships’ sulfur pollution by more than 80% and improved air quality worldwide. The reduction has also lessened the effect of sulfate particles in seeding and brightening the distinctive low-lying, reflective clouds that follow in the wake of ships and help cool the planet.
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The headline says “Here’s the truth…” but it doesn’t really discuss what contrails actually are. It just says there are conspiracy theories that people believe about them.
They’re just contrails, condensed water vapor or ice crystals formed in the sky behind an aircraft as a result of the water vapor produced by the aircraft’s engines interacting with the cold temperatures and low humidity of the upper atmosphere.
From the article. I suppose if you consider that just another conspiracy theory?
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They are chemtrails, but the chemistry that make them up is H2O.
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“exceedingly difficult for factual corrections to alter these deeply entrenched beliefs”… and they are really f*****g annoying.
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It’s a conspiracy, I tell ya! They’re putting dihydrogen monoxide in everything.
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It still is. AVGAS 100LL is the fuel used by most general aviation piston aircraft in America. The LL stands for Low Lead, but the lead levels in 100LL are still higher than they were in regular gasoline before leaded automotive gas was banned. (So if you live under a runway approach, your home is still being covered with lead today.) And yes, lead is a neurotoxin. So technically the little private planes you see flying around are all emitting mind control fumes.
But not jets.
There are a lot of different types of jet fuels, many with different kinds of chemical additives, but they have never contained lead. Lead is expensive, and doesn’t benefit jet engines at all. The ready availability of unleaded jet fuel (most of which are kerosene based, and can be used as diesel fuel) has led to interest in diesel engines for small piston aircraft to eliminate 100LL.
Get rid of internal combustion aircraft engines and you’ll get rid of actual “chemtrails”.
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The green ones are peppermint flavoured:
(seriously, this has to be one of the prettiest visualisations I’ve ever seen)
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That’s stopped due to regulations. They use hydroxic acid now.
You sound like fun. Welcome to BoingBoing.
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Written in the finest green crayon. That’s quality stuff there, you don’t get theories like that since Art Bell went off the air.
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Its a pity we’re all far too dumb to appreciate. Quel dommage.
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Ew. If the United Nations Nations are secreting things that’s much grosser than I expected.
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Surely if you already had dessert, you could just feed the poor and hungry that?
I… sincerely want to see how this is supposed to work.
… right. OK. Cool cool cool cool cool. Cool beans. Cool and normal.
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Alas, the description won’t fit in the comments. Hanc marginis exiguitas non caperet, and all that.
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He has the information needed to stop those secretions, but you need to go to the ATM machine and withdraw money with your PIN number and give it to him for the details.
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