ktesibios
Worthless Aging Hippie
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Rishta, then explain to me why I never saw jet trails like these when I was a kid 40 years ago. Tell me why I never saw them like this at all until last year.
I did see an instance of persistent, spreading contrails when I was a kid nearly forty years ago. To be exact, it was in the early fall of 1968, when I was starting sixth grade. The incident stuck in my memory because one of my classmates was a meteorology buff (when I visited the old home town a few years ago his homemade anemometer was still spinning proudly above his old house) and when I remarked on the way the trails had morphed into a skim of cirrus clouds he gave me quite an earful about how clouds form and dissipate.
I once related that memory, along with some evidence that persistent contrails have been observed since WWII, in a "chemtrails" thread on the Portland Indymedia site.
The response was that I was lying, since a persistent contrail is by definition a chemtrail and the eevil gummint hadn't been spraying them in the 1960s.
At least the Troofers haven't called Rishta, who also remembers seeing them way back, a liar.
Yet.

