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The really depressing thing about this, and many other "unexplained" aerial phenomena, is that it demonstrates how many people just never fucking look up at the sky.

Meanwhile, the government: “That’s fucking stupid. We don’t poison you with the air, that would be inefficient. We have to breathe that, too. We just poison the water and the soil, and if you’re a target we will just pick you up off of the street like a stray cat, we’ve always been very up front about that.”

Conspiracy theories are an outlet. People need a reason for why society is not as good as they feel it could be.

Most people blame the other political party. But that doesn't work for everybody. The mind keeps looking until it finds a reason, and then it fades out all arguments that oppose it.

We laugh about conspiracy theorists, but most have the same mindset, just with socially acceptable topics.

I had my conspiracy theory ex brother in law explain that chem trails were things Biden added to jets to fight global warming.... My response was "shit, I wish that was true!"

Somehow that wasn't the answer he was expecting.

This thing is real, they're spreading dihydrogen monoxide vapours everywhere. Moreover every single dead person has the same thing in their body. Coincidence? I think /s

"It's chemicals!"

"It's spider webs of chemicals!"

"It's microchips!"

"It's sun blocking special metallic smoke!"

"It's cancer seeds!"

• My Mom, an expert on chemtrails

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory

Patrick Minnis, an atmospheric scientist with NASA's Langley Research Center, has said that logic does not dissuade most chemtrail proponents: "If you try to pin these people down and refute things, it's, 'Well, you're just part of the conspiracy'".

This reminds me of the time when I was a kid and me and several of my family members went racing out into the front yard to watch the plane that was doing all kinds of aerial acrobatics over our neighbors's field dropping whatever chemical or fertilizer was in their tanks that day so we were all basically coated in it by the time they were done and we went back inside. Except I wasn't a kid when it happened, I was a fully informed adult who should have known better and then a few days later we found out it was some kind of potentially dangerous fungicide. But on the plus side I now have 3 penises.

I got back in touch with a friend of mine who who graduated in the same class as me with a B.S. in Physics. When they learned that I'm an atmospheric scientist, their first question was "What's the deal with Chem trails?"

Point being, conspiracy theories also infect the educated sometimes.

They think this is bad but think the lead in plane fuel is fine

On the other hand, we have seen exhaust being very efficient in distributing chemicals with adverse health effects across the planet. Leaded gasoline was a huge oopsie that still has adverse health effects today.

And in a country with dogshit standards for HS science. And math. And reading. And history.

The only planes actually dropping chemicals are just doing farm work.

When I read /r/teachers and all the trouble they're having teaching the next generation, this is the sort of thing I imagine is coming. A couple of years ago, GenZ was saying, in essence, "We just need to wait for all the 'boomers' to die off, then everything will be better." No. No, that will just make things worse. GenX leftists are the only ones holding the line, and Millennial teachers are about to give up and walk away, seriously. It's pretty fuckin' bad, and it's clear it's going to get worse, looking at how many kids are coming up through the school system who can barely read and write and have practically zero attention span or motivation.

I literally put it together in highschool when someone mentioned it to me after learning about how clouds form from nuclei.

More like elementary school. We learned about water vapor in 3rd grade.