These shoot up or down from the sky and leave a trail of smoke. Are these meteors?

  • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Contrails are water vapor

    Cloud seeding is something different and usually involves injecting small particulates for water droplets to nucleate on.

    Where chemtrails are usually a reference to a particular chemical introduced to disperse into the air (not nucleate with). Often as part of a conspiracy saying all aircraft are taking part in blanketing the skies with whatever chemical agent is the flavor of the week. I’ve heard people say it’s mixed into the fuels, etc.

    However, there are very rare instances where a plane (excluding crop dusters) will actually release chemicals via fuel into the air. When a plane has to make an emergency landing (especially right after takeoff) they may actually dump fuel in order to reduce weight and to minimize the explosive/fire hazard from the fuel.

    Here’s a video by Captain Joe which covers contrails and fuel dumping

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=e20vaAtncsM&si=78R8Qy0tg3AcB7e8