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Just a guess: model rocket?
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Submitted 11 months ago by Not_the_Droids@lemdro.id to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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phanto@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
dan1101@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Because politics=corporations and both are affecting everyday life in many ways. Environment, privacy, economy, technology, transportation, and climate change just to name a few. Even local politics now involve the major political parties.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 months ago
I don’t know of a jet that takes off at a 90° angle
F-35B can do a vertical takeoff. So can the Harrier. And the F22 Raptor can do this cool maneuver.
Really weird how no one answered that question when it’s really easy. I don’t know anything about jets, but I’m tangentially aware of the failure that was the F22.
Why is there this political lense that people see everything through?
That’s a good question.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
But jet engines will only leave contrails at ground level under very specifc conditions and are unlikley to be around for long.
I also think OP would be aware if their were any nearby military bases that operates F-35. That’s not something you can miss for long (the F-35 is loud as fuck).
Someone else suggested model rocket, which makes a lot more sense than a VOTL jet.
raktheundead@fedia.io 11 months ago
F-35 was more the high-profile failure. The F-22 was just produced in lower numbers than planned because there was no perceived need for a specialised air superiority fighter in the expected numbers after the Soviet collapse.
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
sounds like they answered your question, but it wasnt good enough for you. did you bring politics into it?
Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
No. I simply asked if anyone knew what caused the contrail, and I pointed out the time and direction that the picture was taken. Stupid me, I assumed someone from my town would have knowledge of what it was and satisfy my curiosity. Unfortunately, all I got were very unhelpful, and sometimes hateful, replies. I don’t see this kind of thing irl. It only comes on the Internet. That’s why I’m asking why people seem to see everything through politics on the Internet, but not necessarily irl.
theKalash@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Can you post or link to the picture?
Candelestine@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Politics is just the name we give to all the mechanisms by which we sort out and distribute power in our societies. Who does and doesn’t get power, who gets to tell who what to do, etc.
This is a genuinely life-or-death concept, and for those that are engaged with it, sometimes an overridingly powerful priority that can govern their behavior. This is just … true.
At any rate, the tools of the information age have opened it up as a front for warfare, so that’s what we’re seeing. We’ve essentially been “at war” for years now, it’s just that attacks are usually only executed with sufficient culpable deniability, because the consequences of escalating to an actual hot war are utterly terrifying for everyone with more than two brain cells. That’s my working hypothesis anyway.
That’s all.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Misery loves company
brothershamus@kbin.social 11 months ago
I suspect the answer lies in the method by which people saw the question. Like, if you went up to people standing in line at a bank, or outside a concert or soemthing and pulled out a paper-based photograph and said "I saw this yesterday, what could it be?" you'd get the answers you were probably expecting. (As to the actual quesiton, yeah I dunno)
But if you post contrails on a website and say something to the effect of look at these contrails, then all the contextual clues you've given so far are the same that have been used by a lot of Qanon and other batshit crazy people who recently decided a demented orange rapist was equivalent to Jesus for them. I'm just saying it's a totally different context from what you were probably intending.
That's my guess as to "why" people saw it through a lens of "politics". Less about actual scientific content, more about media theory.
AstralPath@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I’d also say that it was likely a plane’s contrail. The earth is a sphere. A plane crossing into your horizon at cruising altitude would have a contrail that looks like it came directly out of the ground at 90°. Doesn’t help that you seem to have deleted your post as no one can take a look for themselves anymore.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Chemtrails aren’t political. Bat shit crazy, but not political.