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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...