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    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

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      USA politicians are generally hard to grasp because they always seems to do stuff, either because they’re stupid, or because the voters they are chasing are stupid. There is some middleground, but it doesnt seem to span very far.

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      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

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        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/

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          Hmmm. I see one problem with this. The cost estimate is very pie in the sky. If all air transport does this then that is going to lead to massive delays. Having a kilometer thick chunk of airspace unusable is cutting out 4 usable altitudes. Those planes now crowd already crowded airspace above and below. Not saying it shouldn’t be tried but we should be more realistic about the cost.

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    This is such a waste of time and money. Everybody knows the real looming emergency is putting a fence up around the entire flat earth so we don’t fall off the edge.

    It is literally impossible to know how many have perished over the edge, but it is a LOT, and it has been going on throughout all of human history. It’s long past time to stop the carnage!

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    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.

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    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.

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      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 🤣

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    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.

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    Meanwhile small engine planes still use leaded gas. But you don’t see politicians trying to outlaw that.

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      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