We have high school students sending cameras into space. Testing the air at 30k would cost < $500/balloon. If all of the chemtrail theorists put in $100, they could EASILY afford to acquire the 'proof' they needed.
1) Decide what chemicals you want to test for
2) Select a way to test for those chemicals in the air. (active vs passive?)
3) When "Chemtrail" spotted, send up 50+ Weather Balloons in vicinity w/ chemical tester across range... 1 per half mile = 25 mile spread. (it takes 30 mins to climb to 30k feet)
4) Retrieve devices.
5) If no chemicals were found, either:
A) Dispersal of the chemical via chemtrail is terribly inefficient, absolutely no reason to worry
B) No chemicals were found

OR... and here is the brilliant part. Monitor chemicals on the ground. If they are in high enough concentration to have an effect on the human body, they'll be high enough to detect on the ground.

Testing that contrails are nothing but H20 would require a high-altitude drone or just charter a flight. It isn't that difficult to test, but the chemtrails theorists wouldn't trust a non-chemtrails theorist (otherwise they'd be over it for now).

When I saw your comment on "Comment of the Moment", I clicked on it hoping, praying, that it would be one of those videos where there's a camera rigged up to a weather balloon in the stratosphere, with something goofy like a rubber duck in the foreground, only this time the rubber duck would be a dead raccoon.

This video's almost as good though.

> Someone describe the perfect buttocks now...

Her ass? It looked like two weather balloons being inflated under 10 sq. yards of canvas cloth. In the dark light of the club, she looked just shy of being neutrally buoyant , as she literally swept the other dancers off their feet with her wide swinging load.

Obviously swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and reflecting the light from Venus.

I wonder what the explanation is though. You know, apart from "Aliens.".

>> ^Mauru:

Seems like the core of the question is if human achievement requires branding.

No, but it does require money. This was not a cheap endeavour and sponsorship is one of the more reliable ways of paying for it.

>> ^Mauru:

I wonder- has anyone ever checked if any of those (max speed, max height, ...) actually carry the brand-name they were achieved under with it?
Is it like the redbull height record or the virgin speed record? The malboro weather balloon?


The records themselves (outside of being catalogued by Guinness) are not branded. I assume the apparatus used to break the record is mentioned.

Seems like the core of the question is if human achievement requires branding.
I wonder- has anyone ever checked if any of those (max speed, max height, ...) actually carry the brand-name they were achieved under with it?

Is it like the redbull height record or the virgin speed record? The malboro weather balloon?

I guess as long as that does not hold true I can aprecciate the idea and work, doesnt mean I have to like this shitty video representation of it though.

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>> ^Stormsinger:

It constantly amazes me how few people understand what the U in UFO stands for. But whatever...we don't know what it is, so the best theory is obviously intelligent visitors from another planet who -never- leave any physical evidence.
Just another invisible man in the sky.


"Never leave any physical evidence" as far as you know, that is.

We have no idea what was pulled out of Roswell. A weather balloon? Please, I don't buy it. Perhaps a classified military vehicle. But not a weather balloon.

I have seen documentaries that show pieces of metal that were claimed to have been found by the farmer who lived there, as well as accounts from his children about the memory metal he found at the "crash site" and the "beams" with strange characters on them. There have also been eye witness sitings by military units in England in which impressions were in the ground which also produced results when tested with a Geiger counter.

Besides, maybe they have a "Prime Directive" of their own. Hence no or little evidence of their visit.

Nothing to see here folks. Just your standard, run-of-the-mill weather balloon. Move along.

Spaceba.

From Neatorama: "The mad scientists at Toshiba are at it again. With the help of Simon Faithful, they created not only the world’s highest HD TV ad, but one of the highest ads period. By attaching their HD cameras to a weather balloon, they sacrificed the cams to make a point. Not only can it perform, look what we can do with it. We can focus on a vintage chair going into space. Beautiful results. Wait for the balloon pop."

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Lungcore
Lungcore describes a fusion of traditional hardcore American punk rock and improvisational free form jazz and funk, whose compositional framework is rooted in woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Grungejazz; Punkhorn.
That Lungcore show had this band with four tubas, three trombones, a couple of twins playing Baritone saxes, and a dude blowing into some kind of barrel with a weather balloon coming out of it!
by choggie on Dec 5, 2009

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Thanks dude!

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Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Weather balloon.

For anyone who was interested like me but didn't want to watch 10 minutes of video, like me, here's a quote from wikipedia who quotes trent reznor:

He's filming a music video where reznor in the video pretends to fall off a building and die in the street.

"There was a scene were I was lying on the ground, appearing to be dead, in a Lodger-esque pose and we had a camera with a big weather balloon filled with helium hooked up to it... the first one we did, we started the film, I was laying on the ground and the ropes that were holding the balloon snapped, the camera just took off into the atmosphere... the camera landed two hundred miles away in a farmer's field somewhere. He finds it and takes it to the police, thinking that it's a surveillance camera for marijuana, they develop the film and think that it's some sort of snuff film of a murder, give it to the FBI and have pathologists looking at the body saying, 'yeah, he's rotting,' (I had corn starch on me, right) 'he's been decomposing for 3 weeks.' You could see the other members of the band walking away and they had these weird outfits on, and they thought it was some kind of gang slaying."

I want some Delta-T antennae, small array, 6 40' diameter weather balloons, and a sack of radiosondes, oh, a radio-controlled heliocopter, one of those teensy ones.....

choggie- awesome. you read my mind, he was higher than a weather balloon in the andes.