Because we've entered the Age of Ignorance.
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If chemtrails aren't real, then explain this phenomenon:
AJ our favorite dingdong. Not as inspired anymore but still just as stark raving mad. The recent interview with Fucker Carlson was 😚👌
Thanks KnowledgeFight!
Gay frogs is more likely because of petrochemicals in the ground water.
Ground-Chemtrails
Spread by top secret government contractors to control the population! It’s not like it could be contamination by unscrupulous manufacturers with completely insufficient oversight or environmental protection.
This American Life did a segment on AJ. I had no idea how f'ed up he was just generally as a person. This was before the divorce and custody trial when he claimed his whole persona is an act, but it made me think it wasn't. He truly is just that much of an asshole with no relation with reality .
This reminds me of the dipshits that wanted to legislate that the value of pi == 3.
Fucking brainless.
They are passing them to win points with their base. Their base just happens to be morons.
If people could not be so fucking stupid, that'd be great. Thanks.
Hey! You and I are people. What the... /s
Meanwhile small engine planes still use leaded gas. But you don’t see politicians trying to outlaw that.
Technically you do. There’s always been talk about that. For like half a century. It’s a totally important issue we need to talk about
I know I've seen a few of these laws verbiage and the only thing it would do is prevent farmers from crop dusting and other shit like cloud seeding, since that's done by spraying chemicals out of aircraft and that's what the laws are trying to stop. But for completely made-up, paranoid delusional reasons.
I suppose the condensing water vapor forming water crystals after a plane is a chemical too. So I guess the chemtrails are sort of real, but it is just water, and it's completely harmless.
The correct name for the phenomenon is contrails. Which unfortunately contains con as the lead of the word, so that's probably not helpful either.
The cause is hot air ejected from the jet engine creates water vapor, that is quickly cooled down at the low temperatures at high altitudes, this forms ice crystals that create the characteristic white trails after jet planes.
This is a result of physics, and it makes no sense to try to ban that, because physical laws of nature supersede human law every time.
The correct name for the phenomenon is contrails. Which unfortunately contains con as the lead of the word, so that’s probably not helpful either.
I love your sense of humour, or lack thereof 🤣
It was an attempt at a joke.
How do you enforce laws written about things that don't exist?
If you scare enough ppl about it, it exists. WMD's, pot crazed rapists, fentanol slinging Mexicans, Africans eating pets. When has reality ever gotten in the way of scaring white middle class America?
It also scares the lower class undereducated Americans as well.
I'm pretty sure bears exist.
Not here tho. No bear in sight. The bear patrol must be working like a charm!
Well, if you pass a law outlawing Bigfoot and then no one ever runs across Bigfoot, I guess that means the law worked, right?
There are already laws specifically intended to enforce rules that were written by a bunch of ancient goatherders, about a magical sky granpa who can't be proven to exist.
Wait there are laws about chemtrails?
In a couple states, yes. They don't actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.
They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.
Chemtrails aren't real, but contrails are absolutely a thing, which the airline industry should be regulated to limit. They are a huge source of the global warning that airplanes cause: https://youtu.be/QoOVqQ5sa08
hmmm that doesn’t really track imo: the amount of water that planes emit is negligible, and even if they do seed clouds they’re not actually creating significant cloud systems without the moisture in the atmosphere, which absolutely dwarfs anything that planes emit… remember the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is all the rain produced before aviation, and the amount of moisture in the atmosphere emitted by aviation is at most the difference between that rain and the rain since aviation (i’d wager it’s far less than 0.01%)
and seed clouds don’t actually create more clouds overall: they just move them from other locations. clouds are formed when humidity reaches a particular level at a particular layer of the atmosphere which exceeds the airs ability to hold onto it at that level, and the cloud stops forming when when it has reduced the humidity to the level to which it stays in the atmosphere
How do you suggest airlines limit physics and chemistry?
Using currently available weather data to change flight routes. You can predict where they are likely to form and tell planes to avoid those airspaces.
If you watch the video I posted you'll hear a scientist who's studied this problem and shown it to be quite viable, for only a few dollars more per ticket. It's incredibly low hanging fruit that should've been implemented yesterday.
You can also check this website to read more about it https://contrails.org/
It shows the public that they are at least going through the motions, and doing something, rather than not doing anything at all, which is what they are doing.
This is what happens when you elect clueless idiots. Admittedly it’s funny seeing the chemtards wondering why they are still there after they got banned, as if they expected a perfectly clear sky after lol