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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.
faster than you can say "chemtrails"
Could you at least include the date in the summary? In fact, it appears that someone edited it out!
OK, I read the whole thing. It was funny.
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!
Seriously.... Years.
if not red and green
... right?
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
My mom was!
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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."
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
These clouds won't be "fake". They'll exist in reality even if they are artificial.
It's not chemtrails. They're trying to kill the fungus that escaped from the research lab.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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!
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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errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
release several soda-sized canisters of vapor tracers
Probably a few minutes-worth of pollution from your nearest chemical factory.
Couldn't NASA wait until July to start promoting the Christmas holiday season?
Yes, all the animals, insects, plants and bacteria which happen to be be hanging out 100 miles above ground are completely fucked.
Puh! As long it is not an harvesters outbreak ...
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Actually a very good trilogy !!
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
You think all that crap is going to magically keep floating?
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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.
OH mannn infowars is gonna be fucking LIT UP tonight over rainbow mindcontrol clouds!!!
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.
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Yeah, let's put 'em back in unnature where they came from.
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?
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!