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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.

83 comments

  1. Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linda and I were enjoying a walk trough the woods on a warm summer night in on a full moon night.We were both 18 and had just graduated from high school and were talking about our futures.Looking at her beautiful body,5'10"tall long dark straight hair and a body to kill for, as we walked along I new that her future was bright.

    We were heading to a small pond about a mile from our houses.When we entered the clearing you could see the cattails and soft grass around the pond.Linda who was always laughing and ready to play ran down to the pond and stepped into the water."It's so warm lets go for a swim"she giggled and pulled off her top exposing the most beautiful firm breasts that I had ever seen.I couldn't believe what I was seeing as she pulled off her top,jeans and panties.She turned towards me and laugh"don't be so bashful we grew up together and who knows if we will see each other again"

    She was right and I couldn't get out of my jeans fast enough.When I stood up so was my 8" cock and she said "boy I sure wish that I had known that you were packing,we would have done this years ago" Then the look on her face turn from playful to scared.I turned around just as this big guy hit me so hard I saw stars then nothing.

    When I came to Linda and I were laying on the grass and six naked men were standing over us laughing and opening a pill bottle as they stroked their hard cocks.Four men held me down and a fifth placed some pills in my mouth and a bottle of liquor and told me to swallow.Then two of the men moved to Linda and drugged her as well.We laid there as these men finished the bottle and then everything started to spin.

    When I started to wake up there were naked people all around a big bonfire passing some bottles and joints.I looked at Linda being held by two women and saw a crazy smile on her beautiful face,not scared but sexy and dreamy.My head was still spinning but what the fuck I was horny as hell and my cock was hard as a rock.The pills that they had given us were doing there job !

    The next thing I knew these two guys were lifting a large metal trap door in the ground.We were take over to this large dark hole and lowered into it buy ropes.All of a sudden I started to feel soft creamy paste.OMG not paste but warm shit.My feet hit the bottom when we were chest deep in this nasty smelling mess.The ropes came off and Linda wrapped her arms around my neck for support pressing her breasts against my chest.Strange as this was when I looked into her eyes they were filled with lust and she slid her tongue deep into my mouth.

    What ever they had given me it had me so horny that I pulled her close sliding her shit covered body against mine.Then I thought that it was raining but no,someone was pissing through the trap door covering us with warm urine.Then soft shit began to come down covering our heads.Then laughter and a voice saying that this was going to last all night.

    Then Linda scraped shit off her breasts and told me to open my mouth.She took this smelly mixture of shit and piss and forced it into my mouth.At first I resisted but soon began to relax and enjoy it.Looking into her wild eyes I took some of this smelly mixture and rubbed it onto her face and she opened her mouth for me to fill it up too.She then pressed our mouths together and pass warm shit into my mouth with her tongue.

    I could feel her hard nipples press against my chest and I lifted her up and sucked one of her shit covered nipples into my mouth.Cheers from above as more shit and piss came down from above fueling our lust even more."I'm glad you enjoy this because I have a special treat for you"Linda said as she reach behind her and pulled up a shit log from her ass that went up to her wrist.Raising her hand up to my mouth she filled my mouth and told me to bite it off and chew it up good.Who would have thought that such nasty shit could have come from this beautiful young girl,I loved it and soon chewed it up and swallowed it all.

    Piss and shit was now coming down non stop,the people up top were s

    1. Re: Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      OK, I read the whole thing. It was funny.

    2. Re: Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I read it too. I must admit, it gave me a bit of a chubby.

    3. Re:Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Linda? Was this in the 60s? No girls born in the last 30 years are named Linda.

    4. Re:Abduction by Beau1080p · · Score: 1

      My mom was!

      -=[ Beau ]=-

    5. Re:Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
    6. Re:Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      WTF! Your grammar is horrible!

    7. Re: Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      so their adding dye to the chemtrails? got it

    8. Re: Abduction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah... i have to ask... why barium?

  2. What could possibly go wrong? by DatbeDank · · Score: 0

    It isn't like those metals are harmful to living organisms or anything. /sarc

    1. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 1

      It isn't like those metals are harmful to living organisms or anything. /sarc

      Since the canisters will be released about 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the ground, the space agency says they "pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast."

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    2. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Since the canisters will be released about 100 miles (160 kilometers) above the ground, the space agency says they "pose absolutely no hazard to residents along the mid-Atlantic coast, but all the animals, insects, plants and bacterias in the area are basically fucked."

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    3. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by acrimonious+howard · · Score: 1

      release several soda-sized canisters of vapor tracers

      Probably a few minutes-worth of pollution from your nearest chemical factory.

    4. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by c6gunner · · Score: 1

      Yes, all the animals, insects, plants and bacteria which happen to be be hanging out 100 miles above ground are completely fucked.

    5. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      You think all that crap is going to magically keep floating?

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    6. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by sjames · · Score: 1

      They're actually not that harmful, particularly when dispersed widely in the upper atmosphere. You'll be exposed to a lot more by drinking spring water.

    7. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      this is frikkin insane and criminal, toxic metals going straight into nature. Meanwhile a big hysteria about "climatechange" which is actually pretty normal since it is allways changing. Insane Species should be removed from this planet.

    8. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      that's a good excuse to keep polluting. i love inhaling aluminum. thanks nasa.

    9. Re:What could possibly go wrong? by Deadstick · · Score: 1

      Yeah, let's put 'em back in unnature where they came from.

  3. Nothing fake going on here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Getting ready to buttfuck myself with a bikini bottom pineapple. I tried it, once, and I blew my load all over the coffee table.

    1. Re:Nothing fake going on here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      How is a bikini bottom pineapple different from a regular pineapple?

    2. Re: Nothing fake going on here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      SpongeBob walks out of his house, "What the F---k?!"

    3. Re: Nothing fake going on here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Patrick! Why is it so dark outside? And it stinks out here!

    4. Re: Nothing fake going on here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Meow? "Gary no!"

  4. Cue the Foil Hat Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    faster than you can say "chemtrails"

    1. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was thinking the same thing. We're never gonna hear the end of this, after the conspiracy whackjobs learn about it. 5 years and we've got google searches for "clouds" turning up conspiracy pages for 5 of the top 10 results.

    2. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They're putting something in the water. It's weird chemicals! It makes rainbows come out of the sprinkler!

    3. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by acrimonious+howard · · Score: 1

      Fake News! It's got to be the government causing those clouds ... wait ...

    4. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      I heard they've been putting dihydrogen monoxide in our water supply for over six decades.

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    5. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      My uncle drunk some of that stuff. He's dead now. I'd steer clear.

    6. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      I'm sure his source was contaminated with C2H6O as well.

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    7. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was thinking the same thing. We're never gonna hear the end of this, after the conspiracy whackjobs learn about it. 5 years and we've got google searches for "clouds" turning up conspiracy pages for 5 of the top 10 results.

      Only if it ends up that way, this time we know the where and when and what beforehand.

      Former President Carter saw a test like this back in the late 60s and reported it before he was president, the date and time of the test was correlated with what was seen at the location he was at and it is plausible that it explained his sighting. I am surprised no one has mentioned it. Google it, it is interesting how the public latched onto it and tried to use it to discredit him, despite the fact he made it clear that despite not knowing what it was, that he did not think it was an alien spacecraft. He just saw a glowing light in the sky that changed colors before dissipating in full view of about 20 or 30 other people. Interesting stuff.

      Just because it has the hashtag of chemtrail and ufo (in the sense that it was an unidentified aerial phonemonon, not a supposed alien spacecraft) it will be cited as woo crazy pseudo science stuff. Despite that it is not something to report to Alex Jones about chemicals being put into the water to make the frogs gay or anything.

    8. Re:Cue the Foil Hat Society by gtall · · Score: 1

      I don't think we need to bring the right-wingers into this. The American public is loopy enough on their own without icing the cake.

      However, el Presidente Tweetie probably won't be able to stop himself claiming this is an evil Obama-led plot by the "deep state" to...to...foist climate change and monocles on the rest of us. NASA is part of the deep state...damn scientists.

  5. Straightforward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  6. Date? by bigfinger76 · · Score: 1

    Could you at least include the date in the summary? In fact, it appears that someone edited it out!

    1. Re: Date? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Twitter said Friday at 4:30, which means they are determined as hell to do this if they keep only postponing it day by day if it hasn't happened yet.

    2. Re: Date? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Postponed until June 11th or later due to clouds. captcha: awning.

    3. Re:Date? by Xest · · Score: 1

      That's probably one of the worst summaries in recent months, without context the whole first paragraph makes absolutely no sense. In fact, it sounds like NASA has launched a dog breeding programme where they're cross breeding an Alaskan Malamute with some kind of terrier, but that it doesn't like clouds so they're going to launch their new cross breed to the world another day.

      It wasn't until I got past that paragraph that the rest of the summary began to impart any meaningful information as to what the actual topic is here.

  7. Hmmm mmm.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    And that's why trump cut the budget for nasa's weather work.

    stupid shit exactly like this.

  8. Makes me remember "The Day of the Triffids" by dpbsmith · · Score: 1

    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.

    1. Re:Makes me remember "The Day of the Triffids" by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      Spoiler alert?

      I saw the movie long ago, but not everyone has.

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    2. Re:Makes me remember "The Day of the Triffids" by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Not much of a spoiler considering the blindness happens at the very beginning of the book, and I'm pretty sure the weapons platform conjecture was all in his head - at least I don't remember a cause for the event playing any role in the book, though there may have been some incidental speculation that I've forgotten about,

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  9. If schizophrenic & this was ten yrs ago by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You could just let the lithium shower you with brain altering goodness. Save some money.

  10. Tha was actually my question/thought: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  11. Sounds like anti satellite/navigation tech coming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm thinking disrupting infrared and layering it as red on top and green underneath. May also block spy planes at night.

  12. See!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They still have plenty of money to piss away. No need to panic with anti-Trump statements.

  13. This will keep the chem trails crowd going for yea by mikerowave · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously.... Years.

  14. If it's Saturday... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
  15. Not fake by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Manmade, but not fake. Too much fixation on fake news by some.

  16. Whats Red and Green and goes 1800 RPM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Frogs in the blendar

  17. Ah, the chem trails makers! by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 0

    And now in different colours even :D sent me some photos!

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    1. Re:Ah, the chem trails makers! by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

      It's not chemtrails. They're trying to kill the fungus that escaped from the research lab.

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    2. Re:Ah, the chem trails makers! by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      Puh! As long it is not an harvesters outbreak ...
      https://www.amazon.com/Season-...
      Actually a very good trilogy !!

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  18. What colors will they be? by thinkwaitfast · · Score: 1

    if not red and green

    1. Re:What colors will they be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Red White and Blue man. Like the color of Trump's mucus.

    2. Re:What colors will they be? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      At least they won't be orange, like his diseased semen.

  19. Trump will say they're real clouds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

    1. Re:Trump will say they're real clouds by lazy+genes · · Score: -1

      Because he comes from a city that throws all its garbage into the ocean.

  20. Fake news ... by CaptainDork · · Score: 1

    ... right?

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  21. Trump's solution to loser Islamics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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"

  22. Do I really have to be the one to say this? by No+Longer+an+AC · · Score: 1

    These clouds won't be "fake". They'll exist in reality even if they are artificial.

    1. Re:Do I really have to be the one to say this? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

      Unless this is a simulation.

      Wonder why they're expecting this in the code update?

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    2. Re:Do I really have to be the one to say this? by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 0

      fake

      Adjective; not genuine; counterfeit. "fake designer clothing". Synonyms: forgery, counterfeit, copy, pirate(d) copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction;

      Noun: fake; plural noun: fakes; A thing that is not genuine; a forgery or sham. "the painting was a fake". Synonyms: forgery, counterfeit, copy, pirate(d) copy, sham, fraud, hoax, imitation, mock-up, dummy, reproduction;

      Verb: fake; 3rd person present: fakes; past tense: faked; past participle: faked; gerund or present participle: faking. To forge or counterfeit (something). "the woman faked her spouse's signature".
      Synonyms: forge, counterfeit, falsify, mock up, copy, pirate, reproduce, replicate;

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    3. Re:Do I really have to be the one to say this? by Immerman · · Score: 1

      Yep. None of which apply to these very real chemical clouds. They are artificial, but not in any way attempting to mimic natural clouds.

      Similarly artificial diamonds are not fake - in fact recent ones are vastly superior to natural ones by any objective measure, though the fact that they weren't formed deep underground over the course of billions of years may detract from the mystique for some people. Though frankly I doubt most people buying diamonds know or care about their formation.

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  23. NASA did this 45 years ago! by Thagg · · Score: 2

    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?

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    1. Re:NASA did this 45 years ago! by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 1

      Because every 45 years, the tri AG,mo s0finu;ajFA R@

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    2. Re:NASA did this 45 years ago! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chincoteague is a little south of the Maryland coast, being part of Virginia.

    3. Re:NASA did this 45 years ago! by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      You expect horses to know that?

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  24. Danger Will Robinson! by AndyKron · · Score: 1

    They don't even try to hide their chemtrail activities anymore. That must mean they're getting ready to ACTIVATE!

    1. Re:Danger Will Robinson! by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      I think we should wind up the HARP tin foil hatters and tell them this is the new nano-tech version of HARP. It will cause extreme weather, autism in babies, lower sperm count in unwanted minorities, and mad cow to euthanize seniors.

  25. Nick names by Archfeld · · Score: 1

    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

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    1. Re: Nick names by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      >> I know some of the names don't have the lynn sound but they have lin in them

      Um, "Casandra"?!

    2. Re: Nick names by Archfeld · · Score: 1

      Agreed, I would probably go with Cassie but I could see someone using Linda, or more probably Lynda these days.

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  26. Potential abuse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just wait till advertisers get a hold of this.

  27. Keep starting earlier and earlier... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't NASA wait until July to start promoting the Christmas holiday season?

  28. HAHA INFOWARS GONNA BE LIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    OH mannn infowars is gonna be fucking LIT UP tonight over rainbow mindcontrol clouds!!!

  29. Just wait 'til the photos are a few years old... by hyades1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Right wing chem trail nutbars go insane in three, two, one...

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  30. Alex Jones by luckypunq · · Score: 1

    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.

  31. Re:Just wait 'til the photos are a few years old.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    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.

  32. Language by arensb · · Score: 1

    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?

    1. Re:Language by PMuse · · Score: 1

      So they're still waiting for the right weather to launch a very unique experiment.

      Hear, hear! Mod parent up.

      "Unique" cannot be modified in this way. The phrase David is looking for is "very rare." No one who has claimed the title of "editor" should be making such a mistake.

      Additionally, that collection of words beginning with "So" and ending with a period could be improved by editing it into an actual sentence.

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  33. Re:Just wait 'til the photos are a few years old.. by hyades1 · · Score: 1

    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.

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  34. Cue the contrails people by p51d007 · · Score: 1

    They will have a hey day with this one! Grab the tin foil hats!