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| While visiting relatives in Severna Park, Maryland, I visited the Home Depot on Mountain Road, north of the Md2 / Md100 interchange. | While visiting relatives in Severna Park, Maryland, I bought repair hardware the Home Depot on Mountain Road, north of the Md2 / Md100 interchange. |
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| I returned to Oregon a week later, and resumed reading a library copy of [[ https://centerforinquiry.org/store/product/escaping-the-rabbit-hole-how-to-debunk-conspiracy-theories-using-facts-logic-and-respect-first-edition-hc/ | "Escaping the Rabbit Hole"]], 2013 by Mick West. I started reading chapter 7 "Chemtrails", and realized that the aircraft contrails described in the text and illustrated on the first page of the chapter strongly resembled the dozen-plus "skinny clouds" that I saw. BWI airport was to the west, which is a major hub for Southwest Airlines, with its vast fleet of nearly identical 737-800 aircraft, each seating 100 passengers and usually full. | I returned to Oregon a week later, and resumed reading a library copy of [[ https://centerforinquiry.org/store/product/escaping-the-rabbit-hole-how-to-debunk-conspiracy-theories-using-facts-logic-and-respect-first-edition-hc/ | "Escaping the Rabbit Hole"]], 2023 by Mick West. I started reading chapter 7 "Chemtrails", and realized that the aircraft contrails described in the text and illustrated on the first page of the chapter strongly resembled the dozen-plus "skinny clouds" that I saw. BWI airport was to the west, which is a major hub for Southwest Airlines, with its vast fleet of nearly identical 737-800 aircraft, each seating 100 passengers and usually full. |
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| I presume the Southwest aircraft fleet is automated enough that they can bring in a long line of aircraft for landing, accurately spaced 3 minutes apart. That day, each successive aircraft landed northbound through a wide river of air moving east (towards me), with a central stream of cold air fostering contrail formation. When the next aircraft landed, the cold air had moved east just enough to create the spacing I later saw in the sky, successive aircraft after aircraft for about half an hour. | I presumed the Southwest aircraft fleet is automated enough that they can bring in a long line of aircraft for landing, accurately spaced 3 minutes apart. That day, each successive aircraft landed northbound through a wide river of air (I assume) moving east (towards me), with a central stream of cold air fostering contrail formation. When the next aircraft landed, the cold air had moved east just enough to create the spacing I later saw in the sky, successive aircraft after aircraft for perhaps forty minutes. |
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| BWI being a transfer hub, those aircraft successively taxied to 14 gates and exchanged passengers for many other destinations. I am impressed by the precision of the timing, allowing perhaps 1400 passengers to walk to their connecting flights in a long double row of gates on BWI concourse A and B, while their luggage is sorted below. | || ~+ '''BUT I WAS WRONG''' +~ <<BR>> <<BR>> These are '''not''' an orderly row of precisely-timed parallel contrails! Mick West says "... those actually look like natural clouds to me. They appear to be a patch of relatively low-altitude [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altocumulus_undulatus_cloud | altocumulus undulatus clouds ]] in marginal conditions." <<BR>> <<BR>> Ah well. We are never 100% correct. At best, if we correct ourselves diligently and skeptically, we can be marginally less wrong. If you've never been wrong, you've never been right. || {{ https://images.fineartamerica.com/images/artworkimages/mediumlarge/1/altocumulus-undulatus-clouds-stephen-j-krasemann.jpg | | height=400 }} || |
Weird "Clouds"
While visiting relatives in Severna Park, Maryland, I bought repair hardware the Home Depot on Mountain Road, north of the Md2 / Md100 interchange.
Leaving the store, I noticed a row of strange "clouds" in the WNW sky, about 14 long narrow clouds, parallel and evenly spaced. I presumed these were a strange natural phenomena, and took a picture with my wife's screen phone.
I returned to Oregon a week later, and resumed reading a library copy of "Escaping the Rabbit Hole", 2023 by Mick West. I started reading chapter 7 "Chemtrails", and realized that the aircraft contrails described in the text and illustrated on the first page of the chapter strongly resembled the dozen-plus "skinny clouds" that I saw. BWI airport was to the west, which is a major hub for Southwest Airlines, with its vast fleet of nearly identical 737-800 aircraft, each seating 100 passengers and usually full.
I presumed the Southwest aircraft fleet is automated enough that they can bring in a long line of aircraft for landing, accurately spaced 3 minutes apart. That day, each successive aircraft landed northbound through a wide river of air (I assume) moving east (towards me), with a central stream of cold air fostering contrail formation. When the next aircraft landed, the cold air had moved east just enough to create the spacing I later saw in the sky, successive aircraft after aircraft for perhaps forty minutes.
BUT I WAS WRONG |
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