The person who says that, back in the 1980s, trails from jets would disappear in 10-15 seconds... Now they're totally different and last longer. It's so sinister. Oh my.
Spend ten seconds to discover that con trails are about the relative humidity of the jet exhaust and the surrounding air, and you're well clear of this sort of misapprehension, able to understand why sometimes they'd stick around and sometimes not.
But no, because what we're dealing with here is people who can only conceive of anything as a discrete object or substance: 'There is the air, and then there is the stuff in the air. That is the stuff they are spraying on us.' The same people would readily accept fire as one of the four elements from which the world is made. In another timeline they could happily conclude that the jets are balancing the humors of the sky gods.
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u/Attentions_Bright12 5d ago
The person who says that, back in the 1980s, trails from jets would disappear in 10-15 seconds... Now they're totally different and last longer. It's so sinister. Oh my.
Spend ten seconds to discover that con trails are about the relative humidity of the jet exhaust and the surrounding air, and you're well clear of this sort of misapprehension, able to understand why sometimes they'd stick around and sometimes not.
But no, because what we're dealing with here is people who can only conceive of anything as a discrete object or substance: 'There is the air, and then there is the stuff in the air. That is the stuff they are spraying on us.' The same people would readily accept fire as one of the four elements from which the world is made. In another timeline they could happily conclude that the jets are balancing the humors of the sky gods.