I never heard of a "chemtrail" until a few weeks ago when some wackos were talking about them on a forum in one of Something Awful's "The Weekend Web" feature. It's a great feature in that it makes me angry and depressed just as much as it's absolutely hilarious because it features not only some of the most insane people that it's a wonder they can access the Internet, but entire forums full of people who agree with them.
I just finished watching a documentary on "chemtrails" which are supposed to be what any normal, sane, person would know as contrails. Instead of just water vapor however they believe these "chemtrails" are are actually planes dumping chemicals into the atmosphere to either effect the weather, experiment with mind control, or just outright poison everybody.
The Discovery Channel documentary tried to be fair to both sides, but it was pretty harsh and did a great job of disproving everything the conspiracy theorists had to say while the theorists themselves only had the shape of the clouds and the number of "chemtrails" to back up their theories.
The shapes of contrails, of course, are dependent on the type of engine, the altitude of the plane, and the fluid-like conditions of our upper atmosphere. How long they last, or if contrails appear at all, all depend on these factors. Basically they were just looking for things that looked different and used that as their evidence. I'm sorry, not all things are uniform in our world. A Ford Model-T and a Lamborghini Diablo are going to operate as differently as an A-10 Warthog and a 747 Airliner. The atmospheric conditions 10,000 feet above the position of an airplane will be different than the conditions that plane is flying through. The conspiracy crowd isn't worried about this though, to them a plane is a plane and they all fly exactly the same way.
The mind control aspect doesn't make any sense because then they'd be mind controlled and they wouldn't be able to come up with these theories but I guess their tinfoil hats protect them. The weather modification thing is at least based in some real science. Contrails are basically artificial cirrus, created by jet engines forming ice crystals in the upper atmosphere thanks to the water vapor their engines leave behind. Cirrus clouds do contribute to global warming, but the problem isn't any worse than what SUVs are causing every day. The poisoning theories are also ridiculous, if the "new world order/Illuminati" existed and wanted to kill you then they would've done it already instead of tolerated you posting their "secrets" on your hideous Angelfire pages.
Conspiracy theorists aren't much different than the radical Christians I've already spoken about. They're both looking to be part of something big, something that makes them feel special and important. Thinking they know something dangerous and that they can be heroes by telling the world about it really has to inflate your ego and make you feel good. It's all a joke though, and the only reason they do it is because they have nothing else in their empty lives to feel good about. I don't want to blame this on the South or Middle America... but let's just say most of the "chemtrail" videos on Youtube have telling southern accents (and even some trailer parks). All these people have to do is cash their welfare checks and come up with dastardly theories about the government that spoon feeds them. To escape brainwashing all they do is brainwash themselves. In any case it's impossible to argue with these people since they can't trust science when they don't trust scientists (also comparable to Evangelicals) so I'll stop ranting now.
I'm glad that I've been born with the capability to use my brain and ignore these modern day superstitions.
3 comments:
Glad you find chemtrails hilarious, and judge all those who know something more than you as insane. You are all of 21 years old, and think you can make that statement? Are you educated? Do you know about intentional weather modification programs? I suggest you get a grip, and start learning a thing or two before claiming you're an expert. There's more to it. Why would the Discovery channel air it? Obviously, people are seeing something that you've been programmed to believe as 'normal'. Wake up sleepy head. Oh, and don't worry about the tin hats. They
won't help you either.
Yes, I agree with anonymous. If it's on TV it MUST be true.
Anonymous went and hid under his bed after watching the commercials, I think, because the scientist on TV made the chemtrail conspiracy mongers look like..... conspiracy mongers.
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