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Take'n my ball and go'in home!
"poke him with a stick and see if he moves"
originally posted by: randyvs
a a reply to: network dude
reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
a reply to: UNIT76
Alright you guys, enjoy the beating of dead horse randyvs.
Why not just answer the question - it seems a fairly obvious one - cirrus clouds made of ice crystals can last for hours - an contrails are also ice crystals, so why can't they last for hours?
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. -Mencken
originally posted by: UNIT76
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
i just think a contrail/chemtrail has no business persisting & expanding like it does
it's not like that little bit of ice vapor has nowhere to dissipate?
you'll tell me it's to do with altitude & temperature
a persistent contrail
but i've watched plane A right next to plane B and only plane B's contrail lingers.. why?
the way they spread and cover the sky is not natural,
there seems to be way too much 'mass' coming out of those trails, it's like a jet of flyspray that somehow billows out to eventually flood an entire room..
all those chemtrails have the characteristic pattern of little spooling rivulets
none of the cirrus clouds do that
i noticed this in your sig,
The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. -Mencken
..i wonder if that baby was fully informed and consented to having those wires applied to its head?
Atmospherics are not uniform - look at a partly cloudy sky - some sections have clouds, others do not - because of atmospheric conditions - why should contrails be any different? Contrails only expand when the air is "supersaturated" - ie it is "holding" more ice than it should - and putting even more ice into it gives that extra ice somewhere to "fall out" of the air onto.
but i've watched plane A right next to plane B and only plane B's contrail lingers.. why?
me: the way they spread and cover the sky is not natural,
you: Why not?
You might find that facts give better answers to your questions than emotive and irrelevant analogies.
Wake turbulence is turbulence that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air. This turbulence includes various components, the most important of which are wingtip vortices and jetwash. Jetwash refers simply to the rapidly moving gases expelled from a jet engine; it is extremely turbulent, but of short duration. Wingtip vortices, on the other hand, are much more stable and can remain in the air for up to three minutes after the passage of an aircraft.
Looks like its mother is perfectly happy with it. was there some relevance to this sidetrack??
originally posted by: UNIT76
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
it's nice that you're prepared to indulge all this, but you won't change my mind
Atmospherics are not uniform - look at a partly cloudy sky - some sections have clouds, others do not - because of atmospheric conditions - why should contrails be any different? Contrails only expand when the air is "supersaturated" - ie it is "holding" more ice than it should - and putting even more ice into it gives that extra ice somewhere to "fall out" of the air onto.
yeah, i know that.. (despite how it appears i didn't come down in the last shower)
didn't i say back there you'll tell me this is altitude & temperature related? ie: a persistent contrail
you seemed to skip over this one?
but i've watched plane A right next to plane B and only plane B's contrail lingers.. why?
me: the way they spread and cover the sky is not natural,
you: Why not?
i tried to respond to that already, it's like a single jet of flyspray that somehow manages to fill a room
it's not "natural" that the contrail manages to eventually fill the whole sky
i'm repeating myself yet again, you're not going to change my mind unless you can cough up some hard data
and if it was that easy, none of us would even be having this conversation now
but this conversation will still be going on years from now
You might find that facts give better answers to your questions than emotive and irrelevant analogies.
exactly komrade, and all you have to do is explain to me how a single jet of flyspray manages to fill an entire room?
(how a single spurt of ice-crystals manages to smear across the whole sky)
i had a quick look at the wake turbulence link;
Wake turbulence is turbulence that forms behind an aircraft as it passes through the air. This turbulence includes various components, the most important of which are wingtip vortices and jetwash. Jetwash refers simply to the rapidly moving gases expelled from a jet engine; it is extremely turbulent, but of short duration. Wingtip vortices, on the other hand, are much more stable and can remain in the air for up to three minutes after the passage of an aircraft.
it doesn't seem to adequately explain what's going on, afaic
Looks like its mother is perfectly happy with it. was there some relevance to this sidetrack??
yes.. the signature comment suggests that anyone who points fingers at the nefarious conspiracy bogeyman is a crackpot (unsubstantiated) so it's also implied that "big brother" has nothing but our best interests at heart..
..so i show you a pic of a baby being subjected to an experiment (analogous to a populace being experimented on)
and all you can seem to get out of it is "hey, mommy says it's ok" (hey, the authority figure says it's ok)
it's nice that you're prepared to indulge all this, but you won't change my mind
Same here in Atlanta. Yesterday was a prime example. I have pics I will upload when I get home.
(Votes tsurfer200h off the island.)
That we all have to breath
the same air.
"i'm not a smart man, jen-ney, but i know what nucleation is"
tsurfer, i think you may as well ask why congressmen don't lobby against fluoride in the drinking water
originally posted by: UNIT76
a reply to: Aloysius the Gaul
change my mind?
...on what exactly?
wiki links that aren't quite what i'm describing?
fly spray?
"i'm not a smart man, jen-ney, but i know what nucleation is"
kudo's on typing all the other stuff too about atmospheric conditions
i suppose that's what causes one contrail to stop and the others remain (on the same plane)
i've just told you i've seen the orb things with my own eyes..
..they sometimes show up after the trails have been sprayed
i don't suppose you're prepared to change *your* mind either?[/quot]
I am prepared to believe the evidence - whatever it says. But it has to be GOOD evidence - not evidence that shows the person simply does not understand physics and the natural world....or worse yet shows they are lying to me! (which you haven't done AFAIK BTW - but many of the "chemtrail" gurus damned well do)