reply to post by ThaLoccster
Yes, I can see that without a basic knowledge and study of clouds, how they are formed, and how the atmosphere at all altitudes is different,
including wind speeds and direction...
I just posted the photos because I thought they were peculiar, based on my limited knowledge of contrails.
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But, do contrails dissipate in the atmosphere or do they spread out and become clouds?
Both. Depends on the conditions.
Often you will see contrails form, and 'evaporate' (sublimate, really) very quickly behind the airplane making them. One thing you will ALSO notice
is that during those times there are NO clouds at all, in the sky at about the same altitudes. Clouds won't naturallly form, because conditions
aren't right. Hence, the artificial "clouds" (contrails) don't last.
On the other hand (and this is why the "chemtrail" paranoia persists) IF conditions are ripe for cirrus-type clouds to form, then the disturbance of
the passing airplanes just helps the process along. The ACT of flying through the saturated air triggers it, and therefore the contrails will
accumulate, and grow...hence the term "linger"...realy, they're just artifically-produced high-level clouds.
Time-lapse photography shows how the sky naturally chnages with time...usually so slowly that our Human perception takes it for something it's not
"chemtrails".
This video, made by a "chemtrail" believer, obviously, does nothing but show how clouds, including the contrails, just move across the sky, carried
by the prevailing high-level winds.
About half-way through we see the sorts of lower-level clouds that were at the T-Ball game....
(PS...am wondering if there are just a cadre of about three people who keep this myth alive??? Certainly there's a regularity here on ATS, with the
recurring themes...and unfortunately for them, there just ain't no meat on them bones! There is no "conspiracy", and it's insulting to ATS to
suggest there is...)