• hansolo@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    “It’s chemicals!”

    “It’s spider webs of chemicals!”

    “It’s microchips!”

    “It’s sun blocking special metallic smoke!”

    “It’s cancer seeds!”

    • My Mom, an expert on chemtrails
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        2 months ago

        Well, and “it causes cancer” is as well. But not like… It’s raining down cancer on you. More like jet fuel contains known carcinogens.

        It’s more the direct effects. According to my mom, the chemtrails should have…I don’t know, but done whatever it was supposed to be doing by now. A 30+ year timeline for something causing cancer? So less bad than smoking? That’s the metric?

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          At least some nutters have the decency to say that it’s mind controlling chemicals, not the “you’ll be dead soon” kind.

          Kind of like the covid vaccine. I should have been dead in 3 6 8 months a year 2 years 3 years 4 years I’ll be dead in 5 years!

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        2 months ago

        Dihydrogen Monoxide kills thousands of people every year. It should be banned! /s

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          2 months ago

          I know people who believe all the BS about the chemtrails, and I have started telling them that yes, those are chemtrails.

          And, like a good person I tell that it is Dihydrogen Monoxide.

          Then we go from there.

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      The fourth one of those is unfortunately an almost plausible theory. Plenty of people are seriously advocating for studies into Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) in order to mitigate climate change so that the almighty free market would have more time to fix the problem without any need for systemic change.

      But that wouldn’t be visible to the naked eye :D

      Funnily enough, contrails like all other clouds composed of ice crystals actually warm the planet up by letting shortwave radiation from the sun through while reflecting longwave (infrared), effectively trapping heat. Thcker and lower clouds are more effective at reflecting shortwave radiation.

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        2 months ago

        Yes, but the conspiracy theory version is that it’s a scam to further the scam that is climate change. It doesn’t make any sense.