
Originally Posted by
Gingersnap
Blame it on superior air quality. Chemtrails are one of my very favorite subjects because crackpots all over Colorado call me to share the fear.
Way back in the day, most major metro areas had such crappy visibility that no one ever even saw contrails (which is what these really are). When they did see them, it was infrequent. Thanks to the Clean Air Act, visibility has improved sight out of mind in a lot of areas and so contrails are seen often.
The pot-addled Coast-to-Coast crowd immediately started "wondering" about all these new, very frequent contrails. Contrails became "chemtrails" and middle-aged hippies throughout America suddenly had a new fear: government chemical experimentation.
I don't doubt that the government is illegally experimenting on people in small ways (they always have) but they aren't doing it in conjunction with Southwest airlines. As others have pointed out, contrails are just condensation or very rarely, a fuel dump. Get as excited as you want about planes falling out of the sky but don't give the water vapor a second thought. ;)