TheHighestTree Posted August 28, 2002 I want you to do something for me when you're done reading this post. I want you to get up from your computer and take a panoramic look at the sky. If it's rainy you can sit back down - but if it's a clear, sunny day, keep watching. Do you see any planes? If so, take a look at the white trail they leave behind as they fly. These trails are known as Contrails, and are usually composed of condensed water vapor and fade away in a matter of minutes. But perhaps the trail isn't evaporating. Maybe it's expanding, eventually covering the sky with a cloudy haze cover. Do you know what's happening up there? 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted August 28, 2002 TheHighestTree said:Do you know what's happening up there? There's this little thing called "The West Nile Virus". It's carried by mosquitos. The government is actively spraying for mosquitos, especially here in the southern states. Airplanes spraying beats the hell out of large diesel trucks cruising down streets puking out clouds of pesticides. 0 Share this post Link to post
stphrz Posted August 28, 2002 Oh dear. IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!! The government is evil! Mark my words: aliens are involved! We're all doomed. 0 Share this post Link to post
TheHighestTree Posted August 28, 2002 I actually wouldn't be too quick to dismiss this as BS, but i think there'd have to be a good reason for officials to be doing it. And i wouldn't put too much past our governments. (There he goes ranting about the government again) I've seen this happen first-hand myself. I live below a fairly popular flightpath - I know what a contrail looks like - and I swear to god i've watched a contrail coat the majority of locally visable sky in an overcasting haze on more than one occasion. I'm not ordering you to jump on any kind of bandwagon, but if you're not willing to believe that this is a very possible scenario...let's just say that you'd better not take up high-stakes poker. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted August 28, 2002 Never seen this. Sometimes contrails spread out before evaporating. I know, I live under the flight path for Sea-Tac airport. But if the governemt really was doing something, it would most likely be with chemicals that make us stupider. 0 Share this post Link to post
Insomniak Posted August 29, 2002 heh I heard about this a few years back on Coast to Coast AM. It's not like I care, but I think that if the govt. were going to use chemicals in that fashion, they'd pick a more subtle method. 0 Share this post Link to post
fodders Posted August 29, 2002 I remember reading just after 9/11, while the planes were grounded 3 days over America? The temperature of the planet dropped 1 degree, the trails cause part of the greenhouse effect, and the time all planes were grounded after the attack was the only time, ever, they were able to do this check. 0 Share this post Link to post
Silverwyvern Posted August 29, 2002 Didn't the army spray a small town with chemicals once to test the side effects? Could just be me though, way too early in the morning.. 0 Share this post Link to post
Disorder Posted August 29, 2002 Silverwyvern said:Didn't the army spray a small town with chemicals once to test the side effects? Could just be me though, way too early in the morning.. Yes. The US Army also tested Agent Orange on it's own soldiers to test that stuff. Ontopic -> I don't think it's some kind of conspiracy. People go for an exciting explanation more often than they'd go for a simple explanation. It's just more exciting.. 0 Share this post Link to post
KoolKat Posted September 2, 2002 Insomniac said:heh I heard about this a few years back on Coast to Coast AM. It's not like I care, but I think that if the govt. were going to use chemicals in that fashion, they'd pick a more subtle method. And that's just where they want you. People have there heads so far-somewhere, they don't even care if they are being messed around with. Here in Montana they are screwing with our weather majorly. If it's nice and sunny out, you see a few planes take a buzz, spray the stuff and behold; It spreads and thickens and spreads until we have a complete overcast. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted September 3, 2002 Maybe that explains why I haven't seen the sun around here in years and the sky is still bright all night long. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sephiroth Posted September 3, 2002 i dout that the governemt sprays chemicals on us. but the is a problem with that damn shit. i live near and air port and we had times, when the wind was right that resedu would build up. it was sort of black and formed a thin film on smooth surfaces. well some people complained about this and test were done. turns out it was the oil and un burrned fuel from all the jets. the tests also say that it is harmless and that it only builds up when we have a long period of calm wind and dry weather condition 0 Share this post Link to post
IMJack Posted September 3, 2002 Sephiroth said:turns out it was the oil and un burrned fuel from all the jets. the tests also say that it is harmless and that it only builds up when we have a long period of calm wind and dry weather condition Oil + Fuel + Wind + Dry weather = Tinder. Fun. 0 Share this post Link to post