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Help NASA Count Contrails
Bubblehead writes "NASA is looking for volunteers to count Contrails in the sky: "We're looking for special clouds called contrails. We want students, teachers and parents all over the world to report the number of contrails in the sky on October 14-15." Contrails are usually created by planes in the sky - here are a few examples."
Remember to count contrails and not chemtrails. ok?
okay folks, we're gonna be disinfecting this planet soon, we need you all to go outside and look up into the blue sky all day, mouths and noses and eyes open, and count all the contrails you can see, take lots of deep breaths.
mm.. kay?
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Either that or it's gonna be a mass abduction!
I tell you what, I'm gonna wear two tinfoil hats!
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WTF. Volunteers?? Do they honestly think we professional contrail counters are gonna take this lying down?
I understand this is probably a good way to get people out of the office/classroom while educating about atmospheric science -- sort of like a solar eclipse -- but why on earth counting contrails? Is there a specific reason to be counting them?
...or otherwise known as the latest anti-terrorist efforts. "ookay kids, watch out for that boeing 747 there, signal NASA that its going to land."
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It couldn't possibly be anything else. Had they picked something more rare to count, all the kids would drop it after ten minutes.
Since a contrail is probably visible at any moment on 99.9% of U.S. territory, the danger of youthful boredom is cunningly averted!
This fun activity is for grades 5-8.
GLOBE students take measurements of the environment and report them over the Internet. Students and scientists around the world then use the data to learn more about the Earth system. Your work could help scientists who want to study how contrails affect the air and climate.
And everybody knows, the most accurate and precise tools in climatology are middle school science classes.
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OK, some folks take it really seriously. Me, well I drank some floridated water the other day, which made me vulnerable to the mind control messages Rush Limbaugh sends over the radio, and now I think it's all commie lesbian liberal nonsense.
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i was outside playing frisbee golf in
a milwaukee suburb yesterday around 6pm,
and i SWEAR there were enough of these
long, thin clouds that i commented to my
friend "it doesn't make sense that so many
jets flew by at different angles".
using the student pdf matchup sheet,
i'm unsatisfied. they don't match the
regular cloud pictures nearly as closely
as the jet-trail clouds, but i doubt
we had any airshows to create so many
in such an odd pattern.
iiidunno.
You know, all they have to do is pinpoint all the chemtrail conspiracy people and ask them to do the deed for them.
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Doesn't lying down keep the neck-strain to a minimum? =)
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Okay, I'm all for volunteer activities, but how can you trust it? Does it matter if people misclassify material or simply make up numbers for the heck of it? If it does, then you can't use it. If it doesn't, that what is the point of collecting the information in the first place?
There was an Astronomy Picture of the Day showing a satellite view of contrails over Georgia.
Here (~19.5N 155W) I think I've seen one contrail in the last 2.5 years. It was quite a surprise. By way of comparison, I've seen Hubble go over at least 3-5 times this year alone...
okay for the less geeky people (ie, everyone having had sex with anything besides mrs left, mrs right, or a piece of meat attached to the heater), could you explain whats the next big town or what state 19.5N 155W is?
Get laid dude!
> Get laid dude!
Sorry forgot to add: "For the sake of humanity, if the rays from your CRT have not made you infertile yet, use a CONDOM!
If you get laid by your astronomy prof, no prob, you can't get pregnant thru the ass.
http://www.confluence.org/confluence.php?lat=19.5& lon=-155 Hmm, looks like Hawii to me.
If your co-ordinates are correct, you should be somewhere in the same side, if not the same section of the Big island as I am.
I wonder how often you look outside? Here at the town of Volcano (near Hilo, close to Kilauea on the big island of Hawaii for you mainlanders) I can see 2 contrails right now! They are fast disappearing contrails, however, so unless you are very near and look quickly ...
Between the tourist flights, cargo, and military aircraft there are plenty of contrail opportunities.
You have to know when you look to see contrails in Hawaii: knowing Kona and Hilo flight schedules, avoiding the afternoon rain, being upwind from the vog, etc. You can see contrails around the SE and S section of Hawaii on a regular basis.
Amazing! Right now I'm in a hut located in the Royal Gardens (see the parent poster's map) not very far from you. I just saw your ./ posting location.
I can confirm the two contrails.
I saw Parallel lines going NE/SW right?
Reading /. from the Gardens ... by radio link
I presume?
You like to live in the thick of it, don't you? :-)
I was last there when the flow hopped over the
Park Boundary and went directly into the Gardens.
It is a small world^H^H^H^H^HIsland ain't it? Be sure to count the contrails from your unique location when the NASA contrail counting starts!
For you my neighbor: i ku a hele mai i ka 'aina, he hale, he 'ai, he i'a nou, nou ka 'aina
Yes. I have no utilities. Just a Laptop, solar pannels (that I have to replace after a few years due to the Volcanic acid rain), a set of bateries, a PPP radio link (and a sat phone when the radio link is down) and a simple hut.
> You like to live in the thick of it, don't you? :-) I was last there when the flow hopped over the Park Boundary and went directly into the Gardens.
My humble hut (malumalu akua may it be truly said so) was a few blocks down from the tip of that last flow. I don't worry, it only look a the sacrifice of a full bottle of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey. She was kind to me that day. The goddess of fire loves her fire whisky! :-)
> Be sure to count the contrails from your unique location when the NASA contrail counting starts!
I plan to count contrails on the 14th and 15th.
If you can find me afterwards (ask for the computer guy), we must 'aha'aina.
Care to wager another Jack Daniel's on who can photograph the most contrails on the 14th and 15th? :-)
hia.'ai.'ono, I will 'imi your humble hut a few days after the count. Mahalo and Ho'omaika'i!
Dear mainland troll: Ai palekana 'ole keka k-ane makua Haole!
Here is my guess:
Jeez, guys, get a room. ;-)
I thought Haole was a non-Hawaiian person? So a non-native Hawaiian who was non-white coukd be a Haole, no?
The troll could be Hawaiian for all the your parent poster knows!