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The moment at the Denver airport that made me stop believing in chemtrails
I was stuck on the tarmac for 2 hours last summer because of a 'weather delay' and watched a plane leave actual visible trails that spread out thin and white. Turns out those are just condensation contrails from high altitude, cold air, and humidity and nothing else. Has anyone else actually looked up the science on this or just the YouTube videos?
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grayperez5mo ago
The Denver airport thing always makes me laugh because people see those trails and immediately think it's some kind of mind control spray... I work at a small airport part time and the pilots just laugh about it. You can literally check the weather data for the altitude a plane is flying at and see the humidity levels are perfect for contrail formation. My own little test was just watching a plane climb on a clear day and seeing the trail start and stop as it hit different air layers...
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susan4245mo ago
72% humidity at 35,000 feet is what finally got me to stop doubting it all... I remember looking it up after my uncle swore the sky was being poisoned. But @grayperez, your test watching the trail start and stop as the plane climbed is exactly the kind of thing I needed to see. I used to think I was pretty smart about weather until I tried explaining contrails to my neighbor and ended up sounding like a conspiracy theorist myself. Now I just tell people to look up the METAR data for that altitude... it's all right there in black and white.
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