posted on May, 4 2011 @ 09:13 PM
Originally posted by DrunkNinja
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
It wouldn't be a contrail because if it was than you would see several thousand contrails splattered all over google earth as the amount of air
traffic in the air at any given time numbers in the thousands if not more,
I don't know what you are imagining, but contrails take a particular set of atmospheric characteristics to happen, and they aer NOT happening
everywhere, every day, all over theweold....contrary to popular belief in somce circles!
Here's a little question to all of you, did anyone look at the ends of the white streak to see if there was a plane there ? .... Didn't think
so, just maybe someone might want to do that. If there isn't a plane there than it's neither a contrail or a chemtrail
Good grief - how on earth do you figure that?
Contrails can last for hours - the plane could ahve landed, turned around and be in the air on another flight by the time this was taken!!
and this fast emerging debate on what it is can be quickly halted. If there is a plane than do a comparison of plane size to trail size and see
if it is abnormally thick as contrails are roughly 5 times the size of the body of the plane in diameter. If you measure the distance of the streak
you can get an idea as to how long the trail is and from there discern whether its length is reasonable or unreasonable judging by average plane speed
and the fact that contrails dissipate in under ten minutes. So if the average speed is 600 mph and the streak is 100 miles in length that would be a
A "reasonable length" is as long as atmospheric conditions allow the contrail to exist - this idea that a contrail can only be "so long" is scientific
nonsense - ther is no basis for it whatsoever.
Clouds can last for hours and are water droplets or ice crystals - and contrails made up of hte same stuff can last for hours if het conditions are
right for exactly teh same reasons - conditions are right.
edit on 4-5-2011 by Aloysius the Gaul because: (no reason given)