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Chaff and Flares Chaff and flares are defensive counter measures used on aircraft to confuse radar and heat seeking missiles. Chaff is used as a decoy for radar seeking missiles and is made of glass silicate fibers with an aluminum coating. The fibers are approximately 60% glass fiber and 40% aluminum by weight. The typical Air Force RR-188 chaff bundle contains about 150 g of chaff or about 5 million fibers. The fibers are 25 microns in di ameter and typically 1 to 2 cm in length. In 1997, the Air Force used about 1.8 million bundles worldwide. The amount of chaff released worldwide by all of the services is approximately 500 tons per year. Chaff falls to the earth at a settling velocity of approximately 30 cm per second. Atmospheric residence times range from 10 minutes for the majority of chaff released at 100 m to approximately 10 hours for chaff released at 10,000 feet. Chaff fibers experience little breakup before reaching the ground. After the chaff is ejected from the aircraft and into the aircraft slipstream, the chaff packages burst open and the fibers scatter to form a radar-reflective cloud called a chaff corridor. Each chaff package is designed to simulate an aircraft. Several aircraft can create a chaff curtain, consisting of thousands of false targets, which confuse the radar guidance package on a missile so they are unable to locate the real targets within the chaff cloud. Virtually all chaff fibers are 10-100 times larger than PM10 and PM2.5, the air particulates of concern for public health. The primary fiber size is usually too large to be inhaled by livestock, but if they are inhaled they do not penetrate far into the respiratory system and can be easily cleared out. The possible nutritional effects due to chaff ingestion and the risk is minimal to nil for both humans and livestock, considering the chemical composition of chaff (essentially identical to soil) and low chaff loading on the environment. Chaff decomposing in water has no adverse impacts on water chemistry or aquatic l
originally posted by: FissionSurplus
Is this not yet another deflection from the suspicion that breathing aluminum, particularly as it breaks down, is a bad thing?
originally posted by: FissionSurplus
a reply to: AndyMayhew
Nobody is complaining about contrails, or regular civilian passenger aircraft, on this thread.
originally posted by: MyHappyDogShiner
Really?.
I thought they were already proven to be water vapor...
originally posted by: Urantia1111
originally posted by: MyHappyDogShiner
Really?.
I thought they were already proven to be water vapor...
Really?
How would you go about proving that?
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: rickymouse
I don't care what the name of the program that is causing these chemicals to be released into the environment or what the intent is. This action needs to be stopped, people are getting sick from these things. It doesn't matter if it is technically called chemtrails or geo engineering, this is nitpicking. someone is spraying this stuff for some reason and it is having toxic effects on the people and environment.
Whilst they are not getting sick form aircraft contrails (look closer to home - and if conspiracy minded, wonder why some people want you to look elsewhere ) the only way to stop them is to ban All aircraft. Do you want to do that?
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
a reply to: rickymouse
My solution is to look at car exhausts and factory fumes - and the spraying of pesticides etc on crops - and stop blaming imaginary chemtrails
originally posted by: usernameconspiracy
Don't much care what you call it, chemtrails, geo-engineering, or garbage. There is a thousand times more carcinogens and toxins floating around day and night at ground level than are falling from 60,000 feet.
originally posted by: zatara
It is time to accept there is some covert global organisation with a lot of power is trying to run the world without our consent. If somebody, after watching what is happening in this YT-vid is still denying the existence of chemtrails should consider him/herself be contaminated with some serious cognitive dissonance.
Residents of Shasta County California are seriously concerned about their own health and the health of their environment. Watch and listen what these people have to say....
If you accept that chemtrails are the cause of what is happening in Shasta County the next step will be to accept that there is a worldwide conspiracy with global leaders involved. You can ask yourself...what more do they hide from us..
EDIT: my YT link isn't working www.youtube.com...
If somebody, after watching what is happening in this YT-vid is still denying the existence of chemtrails should consider him/herself be contaminated with some serious cognitive dissonance.
www.seeker.com...
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: rickymouse
Looking at the RIGHT area and finding the problem would be a start. Pointing at aircraft flying miles overhead and blaming them isn't going to do much. A real study, taking air and soil samples and figuring out the cause it's a good place to start.