He is also still selling the WITWATS movie he co-produced which he now knows was falsely portraying the planes as being non-commercial flights.
.....Disgusting.
Yes, I wholeheartedly agree. "Disgusting" is an appropriate word.
What I also find to be egregious, is the assertion (by Griffin) that "somehow" passenger airliners are "spraying", without the pilots' knowledge!! This is such a major fail, it's worth about forty face/palms.
Just in case no one knows my background (the current avatar photo
is me, btw....from 1985!!) Back then I was flying right seat on the B727 (also pictured in the avatar...that is one of the few B727-100s that we had, at that time). Since then, until 2006, I have time on the Airbus A-300-B4, the DC-10 (all right seat), and as Captain on the DC9/MD80, B737 and B757/767.
SO...with an aviation background, and this can apply to
anyone who has taken the time and devoted the effort to learn, the notion of "chem"trails is simply absurd. Weight & Balance limitations, for a start. But, I could go on, and on, and on...I actually wrote up a math and logical reasoning narrative, saved it to MS Word.
If I may, I will post it here, and certainly will welcome any and all critiques, in case I made a mistake in reasoning:
('QUOTING' myself) ---
---regarding "chem"trails....HOW is it possible to "spray" that much "material" as claimed??
Try this, it's simple math: Firstly, a jet flying across the sky, for twenty miles in your field of view (very easy for this to be true....hell, even longer distance, but harder to see without binocs). If it helps to understand, airliners typically cruise at about
450 to 480 knots, so that is
7.5 to 8 miles per minute. SO, watch a jet for
3 to 2 1/2 minutes, and it will travel about 20 (Nautical) miles.
(NOTE that in aviation we use KNOTS as a speed unit. One Nautical Mile = 6,076 feet. YES, there is also the Metric System, and kilograms and KPH (etc)....but, just try to remember WHICH units you are using, every time. I will stick to what I'm familiar with).
OK...twenty miles. A twin-jet (let's say), with a CONtrail (which is frozen water ice, in tiny crystals) coming from each engine. How big in diameter, would you say, the CONtrail is?? Well, if the engine itself is about ten feet or so, let's just call the CONtrail about ten feet diameter. (I am WAY low-balling it, here BTW!)
NOW, the fun math. A Ten-Foot wide cylinder that is Twenty Miles long has how much volume?? I'll tell you....volume of a cylinder calculation is (
Pi) times (
Radius squared), times (
Height). Our "cylinder" is Twenty miles "high", as it's laying on its side...right? Plug in the numbers:
Pi =
3.1416 (approximately)
R = 1/2 of Ten is 5 (ft) Squared is
25.
H =
121,520(ft) (This is 20 Nautical miles, times 6,076 feet....right??)
Answer??:
9,544,181 CUBIC FEET of volume! Over
9 Million cubic feet. Right? Here's a website that does the math, if you wanna check it:
http://www.mathopenref.com/cylindervolume.html
>>EDIT…and here I didn’t even DOUBLE IT, to make it one for each engine!!! SO, it’s even more of a
low-ball estimate!!<<
9 Million cubic feet of volume (low-ball), in just a 20-mile CONtrail that is ten feet in diameter. So, even IF the "material" was spread out, just how much would you need to make it visible? AND to make it appear "white", to look EXACTLY THE SAME as every other normal CIRRUS cloud?? At what concentration?? And, how do you "spray" it...using some sort of liquid??
What kind of airplane can carry that much volume of "material" PLUS some liquid medium to use for "spraying" it??
Might interest you to know that
ONE CUBIC FOOT of water weighs about 62 pounds!
EDIT (again)...the
9 million cubic feet can also be envisioned as a CUBE measuring about 208 feet per side. OR, another mental picture could be a 20-story tall
building, that has at least 200 feet of frontage, at its base, on each side.
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(EDIT by me....my impolite tag-line was already 'snipped' by the Moderator/Admin. 'Nuff said, understood!!)
(2nd EDIT: I truly hope that anyone who reads this and finds fault with my logic will express it, and hopefully refine it. Thanks, in advance!)