So clouds are illegal?
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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Well, it's impossible to ban natural clouds but planes could avoid making contrails by just not flying in the zone where their exhaust would cause them. Source: I was a weatherman in the Air Force and would tell military pilots where to fly to not have a shiny line pointing to their exact location if such information could be a concern.
Well that could be problematic.
So I’m curious now… what conditions cause the contrails? Certain temps, humidity, wind speed? I would think very humid cold air but that’s just a guess.
In answer to your question: yes. Humid cold pure air. By pure, I mean no contaminates until the hyrdrocarbons from the jet fuel are emitted into that pure, moist air. To form a droplet, a nucleus is needed. The hydrocarbons of the jet engine exhaust provide that nuclueus.
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No more air travel, I guess?
Hot air baloons are still allowed. Perfectly good option if you do not care too much where you end up or how far you will go.
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State law. Kind of. It’s Alabama, so…
Google calculated that planes could avoid the air conditions that cause vapor trails, but it would cost around 2% extra fuel. That means it's a hard no from any airline.
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The House needs a bill to prevent idiots from entering politics.
We, uh, could just fund secular public education.
And yeah, I’m kinda pissed I have to add “secular” to that.
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Why ban them? What's in them?
ice crystals. They can give you brain freeze.
Toxins, chemicals, and bad vibes. Probably some woke and gay too.
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Oh, I get get it. The crazy weather that were experiencing is not global warming, it's chemtrails. And caused by the government. 🙃
They should simply require the Jewish Space Laser zap any chemtrails.
this is just to much on the nose with the old man yells at clouds.
