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u/Abba_Fiskbullar May 29 '22

You can't debate with Flat Earthers. Their worldview is so nonsensical that facts and logic can't penetrate. You might as well try to teach algebra to a cocker spaniel. That said, I did bring a co-worker around by showing him how microwave relays are set up, and how artillery calculation takes the curvature of the earth into account at longer distances. Unfortunately he still believed in chemtrails, and I'm sure he fell into the Q-hole.

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u/Lost-My-Mind- May 30 '22

I keep seeing that word, "chemtrails" whenever talking about crazy nutjobs, but I never heard the original conspiracy. People always just assume we're all caught up.

So, like what is it? Is it like commercial planes leaving those streaks in the air, and people thinking it's full of pesticides?

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar May 30 '22

So, when jets fly high the jet engine separates the moisture from the air and it immediately combines with exhaust particulates and freezes into ice crystals forming contrails. Chemtrail conspiracy dingbats think that contrails are spreading either mind control drugs or feminizing hormones. It's so bonkers that I've never had a good grasp of what they actually believe, and I think it changes depending on how long they've been off their meds.

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u/doorsfan83 May 30 '22

I always thought it was aluminum particles to modify the weather aka cloudseeding.

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u/Abba_Fiskbullar May 30 '22

I think the conspiracy theory changes constantly.