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Chemtrial Nonsense

Conspiracy theorists are funny little people, these modern day Chicken Little’s can’t even look up in the sky without scarring themselves with imagined threats. Take Condensation trails for instance, these have been around as long as man has used fuel burning engines to fly.  these trails are formed by the rapid cooling of the exhaust from both piston and jet engines, which contains water vapor from moisture in the air the combustion process. Much like one’s breath shows up on a cold day, the engine exhaust condenses in the cold high altitude air. It forms microdroplets of water, sometimes this will freeze into tiny particles of ice. Contrails can also be formed from moisture within the air which is condensed by the pressure from the aircraft wings and fuselage and may form trails from wingtip vortices or around other areas of the aircraft that develop turbulence.

1944 Over the Battle of the Bulge

Condensation Trail are a real and harmless phenomena, but to the conspiracy theorist they turn into secret chemical spraying operation called Chemtrails by known or unknown powerful entities.

Conspiracy theorist  insist that chemtrails are different and that they can be distinguished from contrails. They claim that contrails are  thin and disperse quickly, while chemtrails are longer lasting and hang in the air in a manner that water vapor would not, as if they never seen a cloud. They also claim that it can be demonstrated by the fact that multiple aircraft may be seen at the same time, with some leaving trails and others do not forgetting altitude matters, a jet flying higher or lower may be in a jet stream with very different temperature and humidity, an aircraft flying only slightly higher can produce a contrail and the lower aircraft none.

B17 Bombers over Germany

You don’t have to look to far to find pictures of WWII aircraft leaving contrails. so are we to believe the US and England sprayed Germany with chemicals? In a recent article in New Scientist researchers found the extra water vapor released into the air over England with the formation of larger bomber groups may have had a small effect on local temperatures, but the effect is small and would involve larger numbers of aircraft flying in close assembled formations. Any effect vapor trails would come only from the blocking of sunlight and even then it would be negligible.

You will also notice these “Chemtrails” are more likely to form when you see Cirrus clouds.  Atmospheric clouds that are characterized by thin, wispy strands, often bunched into tufts very much like contrails.

The one thing the conspiracy theorist never want to address is the old critical thinkers question of  WHY? If you wanted to distribute some mind altering drug WHY do it at 2000 feet when doing it at much lower altitudes would work much more effectively. WHY use a chemical that leaves a trail at all? Gasses do not need to be seen to work you know.

The other question is HOW?  These trails obviously come from passenger aircraft, seen it myself, so HOW do you get the passenger service to go along with this? Why don’t you see passenger aircraft mechanics questioning chemical spraying equipment in their jets?

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Insane Clown Posse, Ignorance IS Bliss.

According to Detroit band Insane Clown Posse and their latest music video, Ignorance IS Bliss.

Not knowing your grade school science and the concept that the refraction of light on water droplets form rainbows makes those rainbows “A Miracle”. “blow your brain,” from “the Milky Way and fucking shooting stars” to “long-necked giraffes” to “fucking rainbows.” The biggest punch line in the video is when one of these Bozos exclaims “Fucking magnets, how do they work?”  WOW! Imaging being proud of the fact you don’t know this, and so proud of it to but it in a video for all to see.

Sad to say but NOT knowing shit has become very popular with a certain segment of society.  You see it in hillbilly types who will shun “Book learn’en” and their polar opposites Rappers. The deeply religious are finding their precious bible stories of creation and Adam and Eve being relegated to quaint  bed time stories by the science of evolution and cosmology.  So it becomes a situation of not knowing these cold enlightened studies and accepting the warm folktales.

Writing stuff off as a miracle is a form of intellectual laziness.  If something shooting stars is too hard for you to understand and would require reading a book or forgoing the entertainment of a latest music video to find out they’re  chunks of rock heated to blazing temperatures by the friction of the atmosphere as they’re  pulled towards the Earth, why take the trouble?  Write it off as a great mystery.

Well luckily Cracked.com has created a dumbed down science book for ICP Juggalos.  Lots of pictures for the cognitive challenged.

Learn Your Motherf#@kin Science: A Textbook for Juggalos | Cracked.com.

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Goats of a Feather Herd Together

I have been reading “The Men who Stare at Goats” a book and movie based on the true story of General Albert Stubblebine who started a unit of military men with so called psychic abilities. He believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. Of course none of this worked and lots of tax dollars were spent investigating this bunkum, the general became a bit of a joke as a result.

So I should not have been surprised that the man who ran into his office wall thinking he could melt right through it using the power of his mind would also buy into the nonsense of the 9/11 Truth people.  Me thinks the general must have run head first into that wall on more than just one occasion. It would seem that many in the truth movement do have a tendency to follow the leader rather quickly and without vetting so Stubblebine is welcomed by many a truther. They think of the person as an authority because they have a title, Dr. or General, former USG official.

Major General Albert Stubblebine: Towers Fell Down Because of Explosives | World for 9/11 Truth | W9T.org. Continue Reading

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Pull the Plug on Christianity

I spotted this bit of bullshit while driving around.

To anyone with the least bit of education can easily see where this billboard is dead wrong. It shows a picture of Charles Darwin, a man who while at Cambridge studied Paley’s Natural Theology which made an argument for divine design in nature, explaining adaptation as god acting through laws of nature. Of course his interest in natural history inspired his theory of natural selection, a theory that has proven to be correct in 200 years of research by others in such diverse fields as geology, biology and astronomy. From the age of forty he was, to use his own words, a complete dis-believer in Christianity. He professed himself an agnostic not an atheist. So if you are going pick a man to be the image of the average atheist, Darwin is a rather weak choice, Maybe Benjamin Franklin, Bertrand Russell or Thomas Jefferson would be a better choice. But Christian sure do not want to admit many of the countries founding fathers were not Christians.

And then you have the uninformed idea that evolution is an atheist belief. It ignores the fact there are many religious people out there who accept the biological reality of evolution but believe a god made evolution as a tool for designing man. Even the Pope accepts evolution. So here again Darwin is a stupid choice. Fact is one could be an atheist but not believe in evolution. True not very likely but I can imagine someone out there who thinks man is merely the product of alien experiments and our entire universe exist only in a petri disk in a giant alien laboratory.

You then have the silly idea evolution makes a statement on the issue of existence, it does not. Evolution only makes an observation of the reality that living matter changes over time and that plants and animals, including man, show unmistakable signs of evolving from similar species. The idea of something from nothing is not a biological question, but a cosmological one. Our expanding universe tends to support a Big Bang beginning but makes no statement on what came before, or if time even existed “before”. Science is honest in that regard, saying we may never be able to say what happened at the Big Bang. Religion on the other hand prefers you to buy an intellectual dead end, god did it they says, but ask what came before god and they don’t even want to think about it.

Now imaging if I were to buy a billboard saying “Pull the Plug on Christianity” or “Pull the Plug on Judaism”. I would be accused of promoting religious hatred.

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Cold Fusion Heats Up, Again

Pamela Mosier-Boss and colleagues at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) in San Diego, California, are claiming to have made a “significant” discovery – clear evidence of the products of cold fusion using a special plastic to track neutrons. The researchers placed a sample of CR-39 plastic in contact with a gold or nickel cathode in an electrochemical cell filled with a mixture of palladium chloride, lithium chloride and deuterium oxide, so-called “heavy water”. When a current was passed through the cell, palladium and deuterium became deposited on the cathode.

After several weeks, the team found a small number of “triple tracks” in the plastic three 8 micrometre wide pits radiating from a point. The team says such a pattern occurs when a high-energy neutron strikes a carbon atom inside the plastic and shatters it into three charged alpha particles that rip through the plastic leaving tracks.

If you recall back in 1989, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons proposed a their experiment as proof of cold fusion. Problem is their work could not be reproduced by anyone else. But the story caught the public imagination because the cold fusion process would mean a cheap, clean and limitless source of power. And when it didn’t pan out, many conspiratorial types started in with the old claim that the government was suppressing the discovery to aid “Big Oil”. Gee… if this free energy is so repressed, why is the latest news coming from a lab with such close government and military ties? You would think they would be easy to hush-up.

To be sure Hot Fusion does occur, it’s what powers stars like our Sun, Hot fusion reactions have been done by researchers, but so far the process requires putting in more energy than is produced, So fusion is a reality, but many scientist think cold fusion remains science fiction. Many in the field prefers to categorise the work as evidence of “low energy nuclear reactions”, something observable at tiny scale and sensitive recording equipment of a lab, but useless for any real work. It will be interesting to see what happens with the latest discovery and more importantly, if it can be scaled to a useful size.

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Vaccines didn’t cause autism, court rules

It’s been a popular claim by autism activists like Kathie Lee Gifford and others who that measles shots caused their children’s disorders. But a courts confirmed what scientist have been saying all along, this is just popular myth.

The evidence “is weak, contradictory and unpersuasive,” concluded Special Master Denise Vowell. “Sadly, the petitioners in this litigation have been the victims of bad science conducted to support litigation rather than to advance medical and scientific understanding” of autism.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/02/11/autism.vaccines/

The preservative, thimerosal was outlawed in 2001, and yet we continues to see an increase in autism cases. Why is that? if the drugs were the cause the cases of autism should decline. Maybe the reason is because blaming a child’s development difficulties is easier to take if you can put on a someone else, big paramedical or the government. Add to that lawyers who will take your case to get you some cash and famous TV and movie personalities who peddle the so called cause, and it easy to see why people find the idea compelling.

Rather then admit the vaccines were not to blame, activist continued to tell people not to have their kid vaccinated even though doing so not only threatened their own children but others by increasing the likelihood of measles outbreaks in school children. It’s the “herd immunity” that keeps diseases like the measles in check and once a certain percentage of the population is no longer immune you have a real danger of an epidemic.

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Obama lifts research restrictions on embryonic stem cells

From New Scientist, March 2009

Stem cell biologists in the US have been waiting for a long time to be able to use the more Pluripotent embryonic stem cells that were banned by the Bush administration. Reversal of the ban is an action scientists hope will lead to cures for deadly ailments like diabetes and Parkinson’s disease.

“What happened today is huge,” says Kevin Wilson, director of public policy at the American Society for Cell Biology. “We’ve gone from having a small number of cell lines eligible for federal funding to having at least a few hundred.”

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Another Natural Explanation for UFOs

Photograph of ball lightning, which prompted scientists to acknowledge the phenomenon.

The world is complex and often mysterious. So the fact people see light in the sky they can’t explain is not that unusual.

Things like the atmospheric electrical phenomenon called Ball Lightning have been known for years. And if you are not familiar with Ball Lighting by all means look it up, it’s fascinating.

Now scientist at the Tel Aviv University have discovered yet another natural light emitting phenomenon that takes place high above thunder storms called “Sprites”. True, not as intriguing as saying you looked up in the sky and saw ET flying around but I find the real world much more appealing.

Sprightly Explanation For UFO Sightings?