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Chemtrails are often made side-by side, as if one or several planes have carefully flown a pattern to cover the entire sky. Why would commercial airliners do that?
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Well, that will happen if they follow parallel courses for some reason, but mostly this phenomenon has a different reason: For safety reasons, air traffic is kept in corridors. The sky is actually full of one-way motorways. So the planes all follow identical courses, like beads on a continent-wide string. However, as mentioned in the article high winds prevail in those high altitudes, and the and the lane phenomenon is mostly due to cross-wind: The first plane makes a contrail, which drifts with the wind. Those winds are easily 100mph, so by the time the next plane comes along, the contrail from the first has drifted a considerable way to the side. As a long succession of planes fly the highway, each adds a new lane to the drifting pattern, till the sky is virtually striped. To verify this, watch a contrail while keeping reference to a ground-object (tree, mast, or tall building). You will see it drifting.
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Why is the sky sometimes covered by a checkerboard pattern?
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Same reason as above, only you are watching one of the many places where corridors cross. They are not intersecting, because there is a difference in altitude, but that is not evident from the ground.
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Sometimes I see trails that go on and off so the resultant stripe is dashed. Surely planes do not turn their engines on and off like that?
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No they don’t. But the boundary between the altitude where contrails form and where they don’t can be quite sharp, and not only can this boundary be at different height at different times, but there are very often a sort of waves in the air. If you have ever seen one of these time-compression movies of clouds, that wave motion can be very evident. When there is no clouds, we don’t see it, but it can still be there, and when a plane happens to fly right through these waves, you can see its contrail go on and off.
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Sometimes chemtrails look like they are dripping?
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Contrails are a form of clouds, and they can take on strange shapes. In the wake of an airplane is a trail of quite violent turbulence. To generate lift, the wings have to push down on the air as they pass; this is a complex mechanism, but the bottom line is that to keep 70 tons of airliner airborne, you inevitably create a long wake of turbulence. Depending on conditions, this turbulent trail may twirl the contrail into quite exotic shapes.
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I once saw a picture of long stripes of quite thick and low-hanging clouds. Surely those are not contrails?
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No, they are a natural phenomenon, although some of the mechanisms are the same. Especially on summer days, you will see these little cauliflower-shaped cumulus clouds. Often the sky is clear in the morning, then these little clouds begin to form, and by afternoon, it is semi-overcast. They are generated when the ground is heated by the sun. This makes the air rise over hot surfaces like cities, rocky surfaces, or open fields. When the warm, moist surface air reaches a certain altitude (depending on conditions this will happen between 500 yards and two miles up), it has expanded and cooled so much that the moisture condensates, and a cloud forms. If it is a calm day, it will more or less sit there and maybe grow big and strong, ending as a thundershower. If there is a fair to strong wind, however, the cloud drifts away from the area that started it. However, the condensation process releases heat, so once started, the cloud is self-sufficient: As it drifts along, it sucks up more moist air and can even grow this way. But the area that caused it to form will generate a new cloud, which will drift away, and after some time, we have long rows of clouds drifting across the sky. If the conditions are just right, they can form long, contiguous cloud stripes.
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I often see an extra high amount of chemtrails appearing just before a weather change, so I think they are doing something in order to influence the weather?
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In fact it is the other way around: The change in weather influences the contrails. When the air becomes more moist at high altitudes, contrails are more likely to form and will persist longer. Ahead of an approaching front, especially a cold-front, the low-lying layers of air are pushed upwards. Rising air expands (because the pressure decreases) and expanding air gets colder, thus putting the moisture in it closer to the condensation limit, and more contrails form. The amount of planes is the same, but if they don’t form contrails, you are rarely going to notice a high-flying plane.
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Sometimes, the day starts out clear, then chemtrails are made, and into the afternoon, the sky gets totally hazed over.
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As the sun heats the air, moist air rises. Sometimes it will form clouds, on other days it just generally pushes the whole column of air upwards, and come the afternoon a high-altitude haze forms. This is a normal weather-mechanism, and it is for this reason that sunsets are usually redder than sunrises. Except for the rare occasion of super-saturated air, contrails have nothing to do with it, except that they of course add to the hazy look of the sky.
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After days with lots of chemtrails, both I and others feel slick, coughing and having flu-like symptoms.
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Well, contrails are most prominent on moist, hazy days. So is air-pollution. The hazy, possibly polluted air may make you cough and feel uncomfortable, but the culprit is the cars and chimneys right around you, not the planes passing miles over you. Watching the sky and imagining evil people spraying you isn’t going to make you feel any better.
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I have seen some photos where the trail starts right at the wings of the plane, even if the engines are rear-mounted. Surely those cannot be created by the exhaust?
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No, those are created by the pressure-waves that exist around the wings. Those pressure-waves are basically what keeps the plane up, and in the right conditions, they can be seen, although they will mostly be difficult to see against the much more prominent contrail from the exhaust.
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I have seen photos of organic fibers and something that looked like blood-cells, collected on days with many chemtrails. Do you suggest that these reports are fake?
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No, I have seen those micro-photos, and they seem genuine enough, but I find it extremely unlikely that they should come from high-flying planes. Just think about it: How fast do such near-microscopic particles fall? A few ft. per minute? Those planes fly at 30,000ft or even more. Microscopic particles and fine aerosols fall at maybe 2 ft. per minute or less, that means they would take about ten days to reach the ground from 30,000ft. And, of course, by that time they might have been carried a thousand miles from the release point. No, whatever is in those pictures is simply pollution, and if you want to find the source, you should not look up, but upwind.
http://www.hans-egebo.dk/skeptic/contrails.htmThis guy is pretty much saying exactly what I wanted to say.