Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Chemtrails, the stupidest conspiracy theory ever (probably)

Today, I saw this extremely educational site about chemtrails. Normally, I'd laugh it off. But this site was just too goo to pass up, with it's promise of "Other Serious Issues" at the top. Last I heard, chemtrails weren't a serious issue. They were a conspiracy theory for those lacking enough intelligence to come up with good conspiracy theories. And yes, I'm sure I just offended someone. That's okay.

First, all the phenomena about the appearance of contrails can be explained easily by natural phenomena. Just like weather on earth, weather in the sky changes. Sometimes wind conditions will dissipate a contrail quickly... sometimes a heavy contrail will last in a still sky for hours. A contrail is, after all, just a cloud - albeit one formed by the heat of a jet engine's exhaust. Rainbow contrails? Sure thing - the sun hitting water droplets at the right angle (as in a cloud or contrail) will diffract the light producing a good old-fashioned rainbow, the way they've been made since the beginning of the earth! No contrail? Heavier contrail? Well, are you spraying chemicals into the air when the weather conditions make YOUR warm breath turn to steam? I didn't think so.

Now, not only do we have this issue, we have the issue of WHO is doing the spraying? After all, chemtrail accusations don't merely follow military craft. Plenty of people say they see chem trails coming from civilian craft. That means that there's LOTS of people have to be in on this conspiracy to maintain the spraying equipment on all these civilian, private enterprise, craft. One theory I've heard is that the chemicals are merely added to the jet fuel. Great, BURNT POISON, just what the police state ordered. Even better when instead of poison, the claim is viri. Sterilized viruses, even better :)

And before you ask, the grid pattern - ALL AIRPLANES FLY ON A GRID FOR AIR TRAFFIC SAFETY REASONS, just as you drive on streets. The grid of contrails you may see is the grid airplanes fly on to help air traffic control keep everyone safe!

Finally, and this is the real kicker. If I wanted to poison a group of people, I'm sure I could find a much more efficient - and safer - way to do it. Something my own people could avoid. Like say, the water supply, or groceries. Cheaper (less wasted poison), fewer people involved in the plot, safer for those on the inside. All around, a much better option for a good conspiracy theory. No, I don't believe the government is doing this either. But it can't be shot down by anyone with grade-school-level science knowledge in about five minutes as being completely absurd. So please, a good conspiracy theory makes me laugh, or possibly even be intrigued. But can we please stop the baseless and illogical ones like chemtrails? Thanks!

2 comments:

Jonathan Stowe said...

Where are the comments?

You know your site isn't getting very much traffic when the comments on an article like this aren't instantly deluged by the usual horde of conspiracy freaks proclaiming you to be in league with the evil government conspiracy/lizard people overlords/whatever might be in vogue in whack-job circles these days. Always good value entertainment I find.

It did come at the top of the results of a google search for "The stupidest conspiracy theory of 2010" however :) I guess the tin-foil-hatters aren't making those searches...

Mark said...

Thanks for your comments. I do get a fair amount of traffic, but 99% or more of it is looking cell phone information according to Google Analytics!