Has anyone else noticed how so called condensation trails from planes have started to loiter in the air all day defying the laws of physics.These trails are clearly made up of something other than water vapour.I watch them all day slowly smoother the sky in a blanket of chemicals flying in military formation and pattern.Ive even seen photos of planes with extra cannisters fitted to the underside of the wings- for what purpose? Ive seen other sites where the establishment have been discussing doing this sort of thing since the 1940's- is it actually a reality? is it time to run to the hills~?
2007-01-26 08:25:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
I think your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
Fun theories though hahaha
*this is not written by an agent of the Xenomogs. Nope, absolutely not.
Go about your business, nothing to see here.
ps: clouds can hang around all day too, and they are also water vapour.
2007-01-26 08:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by artisticallyderanged 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All contrails are water vapor. It is the humidity of the air that makes them long or short. If the humidity is right on the edge of turning the sky cloudy, then a contrail could stay all day or trigger the start of an overcast day. Or maybe that day would have gone overcast all by itself, even without the contrail in it.
On really dry days the contrails can look so short that some people think they are UFOs. Really! I saw a web site with a picture of what was obviously an airliner with a very short contrail at sunset that looked orange, and the site claimed it was a UFO on fire and crashing. The guy went on to say that he had seen contrails before and they were always long and these were NOT contrails. But on my way home from work that day I noticed several extremely short contrails from high flying commercial airliners. On other days, I have seen them so long that they crisscross the sky and remain visible for hours (it seems, I don't really watch them for hours).
Such is what people who usually don't pay much attention to the sky imagine on those rare occasions when they actually do look at the sky with interest. Me, I am both a private pilot and amateur astronomer, so the first thing I always do whenever I go outside is look at the sky to see what is going on there. And even I sometimes see things I have never seen before, but I don't think they are UFOs or secret government plots.
2007-01-26 08:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
First off, RELAX. The conspiracy bug is buzzing around you.
Second, those con trails can really persist. There was a great study done on the effect of con trails on temps and global warming. They gathered some really great data those first few days after Sept. 11 when all the flights over the USA were grounded. The con trails can keep it warmer at night because they act like a blanket, but cooler during the day because they reflect a lot of light back into space. With no con trails we have a larger gap between the night time low and the day time high.
As for their composition, they are mostly water, but also the exhaust from the jet engine: particulates, CO2...anything left over from the burning of fossil fuels...
2007-01-26 08:40:08 · answer #3 · answered by Ellie S 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's called WINTER. When the upper atmosphere is colder, it takes a long time for the contrails to evaporate.
And those "extra cannisters" you talk about are called "e-n-g-i-n-e-s" (pronounced in'-junz). Most aeronautical engineers consider them very important for keeping the planes aloft.
2007-01-26 08:52:54 · answer #4 · answered by chimpus_incompetus 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Another great observation..even my 12 year old knows the difference now between the two..she refuses to play outside when there are chemtrails out.
2007-01-29 05:14:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋