oh no

hippies are posting crap about chemtrails on Facebook - and just when I thought I could break free from my digital shackles and face the world

http://aircrap.org/

how should I troll them?

2/7/2012 2:48:40 PM

The question is never should, but always, how.

2/7/2012 3:23:02 PM

2/7/2012 3:25:10 PM

To troll:

First you need to identify what kind of chem trail people they are. You want to ease into it, talking about Aluminum in the clouds, that will make them feel comfortable to admit the government nano-robots if you play it right.

2/7/2012 3:26:53 PM

They look like isobars to me!

2/7/2012 3:34:48 PM

I see chemtrails around RDU all the time. We're all gonna die

2/7/2012 3:35:32 PM

PROVE IT'S NOT TRUE

2/7/2012 3:38:21 PM

Fluoride in water is a government mind control agent. . .

2/7/2012 3:39:12 PM

I just got started on a rant about the dangers of sleeping with electric fans running.

2/7/2012 3:39:42 PM

^4 Yeah no shit.... You didn't see them 10+ years ago in North Carolina. I have a theory that goes like this. We see them a lot more here because of coastal wind patterns that carry that shit off to God knows where. When I was out in the Nevada desert for a week this past summer I didn't see any chem trails.

All jokes and conspiracy theories aside, what the fuck are they spraying into the air and why?! Whatever it is, its most likely a bad idea...

[Edited on February 7, 2012 at 3:42 PM. Reason : 4]

2/7/2012 3:41:47 PM

it isn't a spray

they are contrails

condensation trails from jet engines

2/7/2012 3:43:46 PM

Contrails evaporate quickly and don't stay in the sky for minutes or hours and spread out over time to look like cirrus clouds.

[Edited on February 7, 2012 at 3:48 PM. Reason : .]

2/7/2012 3:45:29 PM

how water condensation going to evaporate at the temperatures found at 30k feet?

Quote :

"You didn't see them 10+ years ago in North Carolina."

your empirical data set is flawless.

[Edited on February 7, 2012 at 3:50 PM. Reason : .]

2/7/2012 3:49:58 PM

I don't know how long they last but I know this.

Quote :

"Aircraft contrails form in the upper troposphere, where temperatures are cold, therefore contrails consist of ice particles, in which respect they are similar to cirrus clouds. Generally, for a contrail to form, there must be water vapour present and aerosol particles, such as soot, for the water vapour to condense on, and the ambient atmospheric conditions must also be suitable. The relative humidity (RH) of the surrounding air must be high enough (supersaturated) or the water vapour emitted by the aircraft will increase the saturation to the point where condensation occurs. If the ambient air is already at super saturation then it is likely that other clouds will also be present, if however super saturation is reached by the input of water vapour from the aircraft then it is likely that only contrail related cloud will be present."

http://www.es.lancs.ac.uk/hazelrigg/amy/Introduction/The%20Science.htm

2/7/2012 3:51:18 PM

I'm just going on my own life experience. I can clearly remember watching jets fly multiple times as a kid. The memory that really sticks out in my mind goes like this...

I was lying on my back in the front yard of our house on Brechen Road. There was a jet flying overhead and behind it a contrail. The trail started a little bit behind the jet and as it flew forward, it would continue to leave a trail. Only the trail didn't stay up there forever and turn into one huge line. It evaporated quickly at the end, thus constantly creating a new "end." I wish I could draw a picture...

2/7/2012 3:59:26 PM

is it possible that the jet from your youth was flying lower than commercial jets currently fly?

2/7/2012 4:00:28 PM

I wish you could draw a gun and put it to the roof of your mouth.

2/7/2012 4:00:28 PM

^ Do you take pleasure from talking shit to strangers on message boards... lol

2/7/2012 4:01:19 PM

Quote :

"Contrails evaporate quickly and don't stay in the sky for minutes or hours and spread out over time to look like cirrus clouds."

Actually, if it was just contrails, then what you would see would only be water vapor. That means you would see it right after it comes out of the jet. But that's not what we see. The white doesn't appear until sometimes 20 feet behind the jet.

I'm not insinuating a conspiracy or anything like that, I'm just saying there's obviously something else in there.

2/7/2012 4:01:55 PM

contrails aren't JUST water vapor

Quote :

"During flight aircraft emit a number of pollutants which have varying effects on the environment, the main ones being: Carbon Dioxide Nitrogen Oxides Sulphate and soot aerosols Water vapour Concerning the formation of contrails the main pollutants are water vapour and aerosol particles (soot, nitric acid and hydrocarbons)."

2/7/2012 4:02:40 PM

global warming is making the air supersaturated with water because the all of the fresh water is drying up from the high temperatures therefore chemtrails

There, I solved it.

2/7/2012 4:03:03 PM

^^ you forgot the Aluminum and the neurotoxins.

2/7/2012 4:03:59 PM

god.

damnit.

nawl.

hell NAWL.

this thread can't actually be happening.

2/7/2012 4:05:10 PM

Why do you think autism is on the rise?

2/7/2012 4:06:00 PM

hahahaha

so the person to post this to Facebook was an account called Downtown Asheville

which makes the entire city look stupid

2/7/2012 4:06:23 PM

I'm not claiming to know all the answers. It just seems to me like something else is going on. Flame on...

2/7/2012 4:19:41 PM

Nobody's even mentioned Monsanto yet. You have to wonder why.

Farmers are already finding fields to inexplicably stop producing. Pretty soon the entire Earth will be inert to life unless you buy the GM crops from our overlords. It's all a big plan, obviously. Only some people like TragicNature are waking up. The rest will keep denying it until almost everyone they know is dead.

But I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything.

2/7/2012 4:24:15 PM

Monsanto is already a real, provable threat to farmers. No need for speculation.

2/7/2012 4:26:56 PM

Yeah, if you're trying to make fun of conspiracy theorists, Monsanto is not a good topic. They actually are evil.

2/7/2012 4:32:58 PM

this person is going on about it again

they have the name Downtown Asheville, which is why I'm friends with them on FB

it's a way for me to see what's happening in Asheville

apparently, what's happening is people are being dumb

3/11/2012 11:26:37 PM

yo dawg!

3/12/2012 12:35:57 AM

lmao, thanks to Snewf, i googled electric fan death...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

People will fucking believe anything without thinking about it for 5 god damned seconds, won't they?

[Edited on March 12, 2012 at 12:58 AM. Reason : ]

3/12/2012 12:50:41 AM

lol @ the photos.

lol @ this thread.

lol.

3/12/2012 1:05:46 AM

THEY ARE DOING IT AGAIN!

http://www.facebook.com/downtownasheville

Quote :

"No reason Asheville can't do something like this... 4656-Fairfax, California adopts resolution declaring the town a Chemtrail-Free Zone potentnews.wordpress.com"

3/12/2012 12:29:31 PM

only in the USA would people raise hell over free vaccinations that do not require a trip to the doctor

3/12/2012 12:40:23 PM

weird... it looks like they are agreeing with you, but then they post more conspiracy stuff

Quote :

"Here's to *** *** **** for being the voice of science and reason."

[Edited on March 12, 2012 at 1:56 PM. Reason : maybe it's sarcasm?]

3/12/2012 1:55:13 PM

it's real. have you seen them?

3/12/2012 2:16:28 PM

Quote :

"have you seen them?"

When you see it...

3/12/2012 4:40:58 PM

fucking shit.

anyone who believes in chemtrails is clinically brain dead and should be neutered/spayed.


It's bullshit pseudo-science that is often trumpeted under a hazy gauze of public warning and safety. The chemtrail argument only further inflames my bloated hate gland for the vast majority of people in society.

3/12/2012 5:35:21 PM

^ not everyone in the world is so good at applying... occamsrezr

3/12/2012 5:38:37 PM

Quote :

"lmao, thanks to Snewf, i googled electric fan death... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death People will fucking believe anything without thinking about it for 5 god damned seconds, won't they?"

One day I was chilling with this Korean chick and this topic came up. I told her it simply made no sense. She proceeded to tell me the science behind it. That when in a closed room the fan somehow sucked out all the oxygen so you died. I pointed out that at the time we had been sitting in a closed room with a fan for the past two hours and neither of us were dead. She got real quiet then got that look people get when they realize Santa doesn't exist or their spouse of twenty years has cheated on them

3/12/2012 5:39:06 PM

SK and Japan have this bizarre form of "belief" that's probably close to a popular fairy tale. It's exactly like horoscopes. Completely normal people read them and base decisions on them, but do they really believe them? Or is it just a comfortable selective suspension of disbelief?

Examples:

Look up the fraction of the population of Japan who believe UFOs are real and that aliens are here... on Earth.

There is a bug that is about 3' long but has a density of about equal to air. It flies around the upper atmosphere at high speeds, too fast for you to see with the naked eye, but sometimes it shows up in photographs. You can't ever find one of them that crashed or was caught because... fuck they're like magic or something.

Blood type is a strong indicator of personality. Don't ever date an AB.

All of religion in Japan is tongue-in-cheek. Many Japanese, when asked, self identify as Buddhist, Shinto, and Christianity. You ask them why and they'll list the ceremonies that are each of the listed religion that people do in Japan. Just goes to show, no one ever sent Japan the memo about what "religion" means.

3/12/2012 5:46:58 PM

Quote :

"god. damnit. nawl. hell NAWL. this thread can't actually be happening."

We've officially reached the deep end. I'm hoping we all drown.

3/12/2012 8:42:14 PM

more than one person is posting as Downtown Asheville and they seem to be arguing with themselves

3/12/2012 8:59:51 PM

I blame timehat

3/12/2012 10:21:03 PM

Quote :

"Blood type is a strong indicator of personality. Don't ever date an AB."

The blood type stuff cracks me up. I used to hear all the time, "Oh you don't act like a type O person!" and I'd go, "I have no idea wtf that even means." And telling someone you don't know your bloodtype is like telling them you don't know the sky is blue.

3/12/2012 10:31:49 PM

yeah i have no idea what my blood type is.

other than red.

3/12/2012 10:41:21 PM

Quote :

"One day I was chilling with this Korean chick and this topic came up. I told her it simply made no sense. She proceeded to tell me the science behind it. That when in a closed room the fan somehow sucked out all the oxygen so you died. I pointed out that at the time we had been sitting in a closed room with a fan for the past two hours and neither of us were dead. She got real quiet then got that look people get when they realize Santa doesn't exist or their spouse of twenty years has cheated on them "

hahahahaha, thank you for that

3/12/2012 10:46:06 PM

I can't google this right now, but...

About maybe my sophomore year of high school, we had a teacher (who was otherwise rather intelligent) tell us about a method of mapping a person's "cycles" which were
- emotional
- intelligence
- physical

Now here's the crazy part: in order to figure out where your cycle is, all you need is your date of birth. Each of the 3 attributes has a # of days associated with it (like 24 days for physical), and then it completes a full cycle in that # of days, following a cosine function. So any given time you can find your value for all 3 of those.

Supposedly airlines used this system in planning flight schedules of pilots. Oh, but it was supported by research.

No kidding, it doesn't matter how smart you are, you are subject to some crazy meme that should be apparently ridiculous on the surface.

3/12/2012 10:48:46 PM

Sounds like a job for Mythbusters.

3/13/2012 9:52:49 AM