Comments on: A Problem of Perspective in the OC – New Year’s Eve Contrail http://contrailscience.com/a-problem-of-perspective-in-the-oc-new-years-eve-contrail/ The Science and Pseudoscience of Contrails and Chemtrails Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:56:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Uncinus http://contrailscience.com/a-problem-of-perspective-in-the-oc-new-years-eve-contrail/#comment-43279 Uncinus Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:04:59 +0000 http://contrailscience.com/?p=440#comment-43279 Hi GrooveTraveler, note that several of the above photos are from the actual incident, and clearly show it to be just a contrail when viewed from a side angle. Hi GrooveTraveler, note that several of the above photos are from the actual incident, and clearly show it to be just a contrail when viewed from a side angle.

]]> By: GrooveTraveler http://contrailscience.com/a-problem-of-perspective-in-the-oc-new-years-eve-contrail/#comment-43271 GrooveTraveler Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:32:01 +0000 http://contrailscience.com/?p=440#comment-43271 These are some great pictures of beautiful sunsets! I was in San Clemente on the 12/31/2009 and watched the thing through my binoculars and through a Barska 20-60x60 spotter scope and caught about 20 seconds of digiscoped video through the Barska. It was very odd. Check it out at http://www.groovetraveler.com or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XaLNzysJ0 These are some great pictures of beautiful sunsets! I was in San Clemente on the 12/31/2009 and watched the thing through my binoculars and through a Barska 20-60×60 spotter scope and caught about 20 seconds of digiscoped video through the Barska. It was very odd. Check it out at http://www.groovetraveler.com or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88XaLNzysJ0

]]> By: Suntour http://contrailscience.com/a-problem-of-perspective-in-the-oc-new-years-eve-contrail/#comment-36582 Suntour Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:30:01 +0000 http://contrailscience.com/?p=440#comment-36582 Great disinfo site you have here, I know what I see every day when I look at the horizon, and the Earth is FLAT! *end sarcasm* Great disinfo site you have here, I know what I see every day when I look at the horizon, and the Earth is FLAT!
*end sarcasm*

]]> By: JazzRoc http://contrailscience.com/a-problem-of-perspective-in-the-oc-new-years-eve-contrail/#comment-36433 JazzRoc Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:53:37 +0000 http://contrailscience.com/?p=440#comment-36433 Ah, Uncinus, you've caught me on the hop! Perhaps I'm lucky you did, because you have certainly addressed this badly-understood topic with a greater panache and with better evidence and argument than I would have mustered. You have made it so much easier for others to understand and for me to explain: I can just direct those describing "steep angles" and "vertical trails" and even "loops" straight to your page here. It's true, of course, that non-persistent contrails do this too. It's just that they have "vanished" before you get to see the complete track of the contrail. By "vanished" I mean "sublimed back into water vapor", and we all know water vapor is invisible, don't we? It hasn't really <em>gone away</em>: you just <em>can't see it anymore</em>. Ah, Uncinus, you’ve caught me on the hop!

Perhaps I’m lucky you did, because you have certainly addressed this badly-understood topic with a greater panache and with better evidence and argument than I would have mustered.

You have made it so much easier for others to understand and for me to explain: I can just direct those describing “steep angles” and “vertical trails” and even “loops” straight to your page here.

It’s true, of course, that non-persistent contrails do this too. It’s just that they have “vanished” before you get to see the complete track of the contrail.

By “vanished” I mean “sublimed back into water vapor”, and we all know water vapor is invisible, don’t we? It hasn’t really gone away: you just can’t see it anymore.

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