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NASA Will Create Fake Red And Green Clouds Near Virginia (cnn.com)
"We have scrubbed today, June 4, due to clouds," NASA tweeted hours before sunrise on Sunday, adding later that "The next launch attempt for the Terrier-Improved Malemute is no earlier than June 11 pending range availability."
So they're still waiting for the right weather to launch a very unique experiment. An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
The early morning hours on the U.S. East Coast might be unusually colorful as NASA plans to produce artificial blue-green and red clouds that may be visible from New York to North Carolina... It's a test of a new system that helps scientists study the auroras and ionosphere. A NASA sounding rocket (a small, sub-orbital rocket often used in research) will launch from Wallops Flight Facility off the coast of Virginia and release several soda-sized canisters of vapor tracers in the upper atmosphere that may appear as colorful clouds. The tracers use vapors made up of lithium, barium and tri-methyl aluminum that react with other elements in the atmosphere to glow, letting researchers visually track the flows of ionized and neutral particles. It's a bit like being able to dye the wind or ocean currents to be able to get a visual picture.
When NASA does perform its launch, CNN adds that "If you're near the eastern U.S. coast, look toward the eastern horizon. The farther you are from the launch location, the lower the clouds will appear on the horizon." Basically, try to adjust your gaze towards Virginia's eastern shore -- and if you're not on the east coast, NASA will be livestreaming the launch and posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Updated to reflect new mission status.
When NASA does perform its launch, CNN adds that "If you're near the eastern U.S. coast, look toward the eastern horizon. The farther you are from the launch location, the lower the clouds will appear on the horizon." Basically, try to adjust your gaze towards Virginia's eastern shore -- and if you're not on the east coast, NASA will be livestreaming the launch and posting updates on Facebook and Twitter.
Updated to reflect new mission status.
It isn't like those metals are harmful to living organisms or anything. /sarc
faster than you can say "chemtrails"
They have new chemtrail formulae but can't get them to come out white. So, they are desensitizing us to colored clouds.
Either that, or they know some bad shit's going down and are pretending it's them to prevent a panic. If you're worried, call them and tell them to postpone it by an hour. If they won't, then you panic.
Could you at least include the date in the summary? In fact, it appears that someone edited it out!
SpongeBob walks out of his house, "What the F---k?!"
OK, I read the whole thing. It was funny.
I read it too. I must admit, it gave me a bit of a chubby.
The novel by John Wyndham begins with a spectacular spatial light show, a meteor shower unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. The protagonist is in a hospital with his eyes bandaged and feels sorry that he can't see the magnificent spectacle. It turns out that everybody who looks at the meteor shower goes blind, and the reader is given to understand or at least strongly suspect that it is some kind of orbiting weapons system that was activated accidentally.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
You could just let the lithium shower you with brain altering goodness. Save some money.
Patrick! Why is it so dark outside? And it stinks out here!
Meow? "Gary no!"
Isn't this basically that contrail conspiracy theory made into a multicolored poisonous chemical cloud?
I hope the wind does what they expect that day.
I'm thinking disrupting infrared and layering it as red on top and green underneath. May also block spy planes at night.
They still have plenty of money to piss away. No need to panic with anti-Trump statements.
Seriously.... Years.
it's Fash the Nation!
Manmade, but not fake. Too much fixation on fake news by some.
Linda? Was this in the 60s? No girls born in the last 30 years are named Linda.
Frogs in the blendar
And now in different colours even :D sent me some photos!
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
if not red and green
Although a week later when asked about those clouds will exclaim that there were never any such cloud he never said a thing like that this is the fake news media trying to attack him for things he didn't actually say.
... right?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
My mom was!
-=[ Beau ]=-
in the 40s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
These are actually powerful chemicals that will render you sterile unless you have previously consumed the antidote which is bacon. "Muslims gone within one generation. #maga"
These clouds won't be "fake". They'll exist in reality even if they are artificial.
In 1972 or 1973, my family vacationed for a week in the summer on Chincoteague Island off the coast of Maryland. NASA launched sub-orbital rockets that did this exact same thing -- created colored clouds in the night sky.
Why do it again, 45 years later?
I love Mondays. On a Monday, anything is possible.
They don't even try to hide their chemtrail activities anymore. That must mean they're getting ready to ACTIVATE!
Melinda, Belinda, Casandra, Linnea, Linae, Rosalind, Roselin, Maylin/ Maelin, Malin, Adelin/ Adalin, Adeline, Aislin, Evelin, Jocelin, Jaelin/ Jaylin, Gwendolin, Fallin, Ashlin, Joslin, Carolin
Elina, Elinna, Elinor, Aveline, Keelin, Emmalin/ Emelin, Coralin, Coraline, Evangeline, Evalina, Celine, Caroline, Carolina, Marceline, Pearline/ Perline, and Caetlyn
- I know some of the names don't have the lynn sound but they have lin in them
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Just wait till advertisers get a hold of this.
Couldn't NASA wait until July to start promoting the Christmas holiday season?
WTF! Your grammar is horrible!
OH mannn infowars is gonna be fucking LIT UP tonight over rainbow mindcontrol clouds!!!
so their adding dye to the chemtrails? got it
Right wing chem trail nutbars go insane in three, two, one...
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
This story will keep Alex Jones busy for months or years .. the lizard men are finally completing the last steps before killing off humanity and terraforming the planet. You have been warned ... please check out our BoC water filters, Vitamins and Iodine 30% before clicking like/subscribe.
If we're going to have to wait a few years, shouldn't you have started your countdown at something a bit higher than three.
Worse still, you're already at one. We're really going to have to drag this one out - 0.999999999, 0.999999998, 0.999999997.
I can't help but wonder: what makes an experiment "very unique" as opposed to merely unique? "Unique" already means "one of a kind". How do you get more one-of-a-kind than that?
Yeah... i have to ask... why barium?
Just the news that it's going to happen will be enough to set them off.
I like your idea of a right-of-decimal-point countdown, though.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
They will have a hey day with this one! Grab the tin foil hats!