Yo, easy on the thought-terminating cliches.
If you had an original thought, would it die of loneliness?
Was this directed at me? I was making fun of some totally mindless conspiracy theory, and you call it a "thought-terminating cliche"? Believing in chemtrails as a conspiracy where the government is secretly trying to do this, that or the other thing is certainly a thought worth terminating. Likewise the utterly ridiculous concept that 9-11 was an inside job is right up there with believing that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton was involved in Lincoln's assassination, or that President Wilson was not a racist.
It was directed at you and the others who can't comprehend or contemplate chemtrails beyond issuing pat denials or redirecting toward pat explanations. That's what's mindless.
If the term "chemtrails" sounds too freaky for you, you can call it what some scientists call it - "stratospheric aerosol geoengineering."
On Wednesday in Athens, we were firmly under a high-pressure system. There was no "weather-making," natural process in the vicinity. I didn't send up a radiosonde, but I suspect there was not enough humidity at 20,000 or 30,000 feet of altitude to create persistent contrails. Certainly, there were some airplanes visible at those approximate altitudes that were not emitting persistent contrails. But we went from a totally blue sky in the morning to a haze over the course of the day. During this time, there were many jets easily visible that were laying trails that were obviously turning into cloud cover. Get out your binoculars and see planes that are unmarked or marked with paint that matches no known airline.
The Ohio versus Temple game was fun and a great promotional vehicle for Ohio University. It would've been all the greater had we been allowed to enjoy a perfect blue autumn sky in the hours leading up to the game.
If one were to choose documentation to best demonstrate that the government spraying the sky is plausible and realistic, one would perhaps choose these three:
1. Ed Teller's proposal for spraying aluminum oxide, penned under the auspices of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1990s.
2. "Owning the Weather in 2025," a white paper prepared by Air Force officers in 1996.
3. The 1991 patent for jet engine dispersal issued to Hughes Aerospace.
Each of these documents, and many more, are readily available through a simple Internet search.