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Come on someone should be able to answer this question or are you all not as smart as you say you all are? What would the contrails of a Jet with extra particulate matter in the fuel look like ?
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Since you claim to be such a expert on contrails and apparently you think you're an expert on this whole subject. Let me pose a hypothetical scenario to you and let me hear your response.
If someone was to chemically alter jet fuel with extra particulate matter and those particulates were coated with special polymers so they did not affect the normal functions of the jet engine. How do you suppose those particulates in the exhaust would effect the formation of the exhausts contrails?
They're involved with the spread of AIDS.
....what would contrails from a jet with extra particulate matter added to the fuel look like ?
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by MathiasAndrew
....what would contrails from a jet with extra particulate matter added to the fuel look like ?
Well....for starters, besides the fact that the engines would self-destruct rather quickly...before that, you'd see all of the emissions coming out the exhaust AS SOON AS you started the engines...on the ground.
On the ramp.
Taxiing out.
During takeoff, leaving trails everywhere.....in fact, if it made it as far as the takeoff, then you could follow those trails to the smoking hole in the ground to find the spot where the airplane crashed.......
edit on 8 March 2011 by weedwhacker because: (no reason given)
In fact they actually have a polishing effect.
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
Wrong, read the question again. I stated in the first place when i asked this question awhile back that the particles have been bonded with special lubricating polymers that don't allow them to interfere with the normal functions of the engine
In fact they actually have a polishing effect.edit on 8-3-2011 by MathiasAndrew because: (no reason given)
US Civilian Biological Testing Law Repealed From Joyce Riley vonKleist, R.N., B.S.N. Capt. USAF Inactive Reserve 5-9-98 For over twenty years the Department of Defense (DoD) or their contractors were allowed to use the American people as "guinea pigs" for testing of chemical or biological agents. Since July 30th, 1977, the United States Code annotated Title 50, Chapter 32, Section 1520 remained on the books until drawn into the arena of public discussion on talk radio. Last year, Joyce Riley vonKleist R.N., presented this as a topic of discussion on several national radio talk shows and was immediately greeted with skepticism and ridicule by many news directors and editors who refused to acknowledge the existence of such a law. The debate raged on for several months and many listeners took the initiative and the time to research this law only to find that it indeed existed! At the suggestion of the AGWVA, thousands of letters and phone calls poured in to public officials' offices demanding an explanation and their position statement on this law. Due to overwhelming public outcry, section 1520 was quietly repealed by the passing of H. R. 1119, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. Section 1078 of this bill prohibits the DoD, either directly or by contract, from conducting tests or experiments using chemical or biological agents on human subjects (with exceptions). Under the (just repealed) law, the DoD has been permitted to conduct such a test or experiment if informed consent is obtained. According to U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe (ME), the conference report on H. R. 1119 was passed by the Senate, by a vote of 90-10 on November 6, 1997 and signed into law by President Clinton on November 18th, 1997.
Originally posted by MathiasAndrew
Let's go around the room now and I'll let each one of you tell your story of when you "sold your soul and became a stooge for the man". Then we can all enjoy this tasty quote from the pages of history
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US Civilian Biological Testing Law Repealed From Joyce Riley vonKleist, R.N., B.S.N. Capt. USAF Inactive Reserve 5-9-98 For over twenty years the Department of Defense (DoD) or their contractors were allowed to use the American people as "guinea pigs" for testing of chemical or biological agents. Since July 30th, 1977, the United States Code annotated Title 50, Chapter 32, Section 1520 remained on the books until drawn into the arena of public discussion on talk radio. Last year, Joyce Riley vonKleist R.N., presented this as a topic of discussion on several national radio talk shows and was immediately greeted with skepticism and ridicule by many news directors and editors who refused to acknowledge the existence of such a law. The debate raged on for several months and many listeners took the initiative and the time to research this law only to find that it indeed existed! At the suggestion of the AGWVA, thousands of letters and phone calls poured in to public officials' offices demanding an explanation and their position statement on this law. Due to overwhelming public outcry, section 1520 was quietly repealed by the passing of H. R. 1119, the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. Section 1078 of this bill prohibits the DoD, either directly or by contract, from conducting tests or experiments using chemical or biological agents on human subjects (with exceptions). Under the (just repealed) law, the DoD has been permitted to conduct such a test or experiment if informed consent is obtained. According to U. S. Senator Olympia Snowe (ME), the conference report on H. R. 1119 was passed by the Senate, by a vote of 90-10 on November 6, 1997 and signed into law by President Clinton on November 18th, 1997.
Originally posted by Essan
No, because there is no weather modification (other than fog dispersal at airports) conducted in Britain.
While there are clear humanitarian reasons for wanting to manipulate the weather, there is also a dark history around previous attempts to do so. The British, Russian and American governments have all conducted top-secret weather modification projects, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
In 1952, a freak storm destroyed the sleep Devonshire village of Lynemouth. The storm led to catastrophic flooding that destroyed the town and killed 35 people. It was the most destructive storm in British history, but was it a natural one?
Within days of the catastrophe, there were rumours of secret experiments which the Met. office and Ministry of Defence flatly denied.
Then a witness came forward. A glider pilot Alan Yates, now deceased, told a BBC journalist that, just prior to the Lynemouth flood, he had taken part in a government-sponsored cloud-seeding experiment. Yates told the journalist that he and his colleagues had seeded clouds over the Bedfordshire countryside and had witnessed the effects for themselves.
Recently declassified documents have confirmed that the experiment, codenamed Operation Cumulus, took place in the first two weeks of August 1952 and coincided with the heaviest rainfall in Bedfordshire for many years. The experiment was heralded as a resounding success, until the rain continued to spread west into Devon.
More than 50 years after the event, it is impossible to say if cloud-seeding really did trigger the most destructive storm in British history, or if it was just an unfortunate coincidence. What is clear, is that is that the government, anxious not to be blamed, closed the project down and denied it had ever taken place.