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TomK
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Posted - 10/09/2018 : 19:42:27 Show Profile Email Poster Visit TomK's Homepage Reply with Quote
ElysianWort - glassnumbers has provided a good description of contrails, a phenomenon that has been known about for decades - there are pictures of aircraft during WWII producing long-lasting contrails as planes flew higher and higher. Helicopters here don't produce contrails as they fly too low, but certainly produce short-lived versions, just visit Hilo airport in high-humidity conditions, the rotor blades produce them.
Chemtrails are a product of a nutty conspiracy theory that developed in the mid-1990s once the kookier amongst us discovered how to use the internet to spread their ideas, and unfortunately, it just keeps getting worse. The chemtrail conspiracy theory claims governments are using regular airliners to spray the world's population with chemicals for a number of reasons, most kooks these days seem to think it's to control our minds, but theories include population control and weather modification. There is, of course, little to no evidence for this, and using Occam's razor, I hope you understand that contrails are the more likely explanation - and I say that using a little British understatement.
On another note, although I hate the helicopter noise, I have never smelled them.
PS. Chas - I hope you don't mind me using the term "kook", but it's exactly what these people are. Chemtrails, Rods, psychics, astrologers, flat-earthers, 911 conspiracists, greys, lizard people, cubic-box nuts etc. Whether you like it or not, skeptics and scientists are going to show that kooks post nonsense whether it hurts your sensibilities or not, and for good reason.
Edited by - TomK on 10/09/2018 23:40:23
Ah and there it is. categorizing people that believe in aliens as "kooks" and putting them in the same cracker-jack box as people believing in a flat earth.
TomK
Punatic
USA
8085 Posts
Posted - 10/09/2018 : 19:42:27 Show Profile Email Poster Visit TomK's Homepage Reply with Quote
ElysianWort - glassnumbers has provided a good description of contrails, a phenomenon that has been known about for decades - there are pictures of aircraft during WWII producing long-lasting contrails as planes flew higher and higher. Helicopters here don't produce contrails as they fly too low, but certainly produce short-lived versions, just visit Hilo airport in high-humidity conditions, the rotor blades produce them.
Chemtrails are a product of a nutty conspiracy theory that developed in the mid-1990s once the kookier amongst us discovered how to use the internet to spread their ideas, and unfortunately, it just keeps getting worse. The chemtrail conspiracy theory claims governments are using regular airliners to spray the world's population with chemicals for a number of reasons, most kooks these days seem to think it's to control our minds, but theories include population control and weather modification. There is, of course, little to no evidence for this, and using Occam's razor, I hope you understand that contrails are the more likely explanation - and I say that using a little British understatement.
On another note, although I hate the helicopter noise, I have never smelled them.
PS. Chas - I hope you don't mind me using the term "kook", but it's exactly what these people are. Chemtrails, Rods, psychics, astrologers, flat-earthers, 911 conspiracists, greys, lizard people, cubic-box nuts etc. Whether you like it or not, skeptics and scientists are going to show that kooks post nonsense whether it hurts your sensibilities or not, and for good reason.
Edited by - TomK on 10/09/2018 23:40:23
Ah and there it is. categorizing people that believe in aliens as "kooks" and putting them in the same cracker-jack box as people believing in a flat earth.