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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @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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    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 🤣

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      In a couple states, yes. They don’t actually do anything to restrict the water vapor trails that aircraft routinely produce in cold air.

      They in a couple cases impose restrictions on cloud seeding.

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      If you scare enough ppl about it, it exists. WMD’s, pot crazed rapists, fentanol slinging Mexicans, Africans eating pets. When has reality ever gotten in the way of scaring white middle class America?

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      Well, if you pass a law outlawing Bigfoot and then no one ever runs across Bigfoot, I guess that means the law worked, right?

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      There are already laws specifically intended to enforce rules that were written by a bunch of ancient goatherders, about a magical sky granpa who can’t be proven to exist.

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    It’s called geoengineering and many governments of the world have admitted to doing it. https://www.epa.gov/geoengineering/about-geoengineering

    They just rebranded the term chemtrails to geoengineering, so they can technically say that chemtrails are conspiracy theory, but geoengineering is the same thing as chemtrails.

    Geoengineering is actually happening and has been happening for decades all over the world, and everyone is openly admitting it.

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      Except… they’re not the same thing. Geoengineering has been going on for over half a century, and involves dumping particles into different layers of the atmosphere. These particles are generally inert, but cause localized condensation.

      That’s a totally different thing than the chemtrail conspiracies which argue that chemicals that aren’t inert are being distributed to make it into the air we breathe and the water we drink in order to alter the behavior of people.

      Chemtrails are effectively closer to microplastic pollution than they are to geoengineering.