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I think this fails at point 3. |
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I'll bun this despite loving conspiracy theories. |
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Let me be clear, they're all horrible, the only good
conspiracy theory, wives tale, not sure what you'd
call it was spontaneous human combustion. That
was fascinating because it WAS without a doubt an
actual phenomenon, either humans burning
without burning down the surrounding
room/building or people staging these grotesque
displays of scorched corpses. |
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There's a theory that the candle wick effect is
what causes this, but it was a weird unknown and
those are cool. |
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Guess it's not a conspiracy theory though. |
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I think I mentioned how I think I actually may have talked a
chemtrail believer who had a booth set up on a
busy street in San Francisco that there were, we'll
say, several problems with the theory. I did it by
saying "These things would have to happen." and
piled them up. Then I pointed out that his main
evidence, a picture of a plane with water tanks
used to shift load for flight testing was just that,
and that planes with one liquid in them are a thing
in firefighting aircraft, but they just use one tank
because multiple tanks are a lot heavier for the
same volume of liquid. I then said "There may be
chemtrail airplanes, but this isn't one of them." |
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Point is, I went easy on the guy and allowed him to
do the math himself. I think it worked. |
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But yours is interesting. Just say "Please explain
how Kevin Bacon never mentions chemtrails, not
once, in any of his movies. That's just what a
central figure in this plot to spread mind control
drugs would do." |
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Yea, devious but clever. I can see it. |
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Kevin Bacon would fit into every Hollywood-inspired conspiracy, but then, that's just what Kevin Bacon would say. |
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//Guess it's not a conspiracy theory though// |
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You'd be right there, lacking as it does the most vital
requirement of any conspiracy & thus by default (or is that
extension?) also of any theories about conspiracies, to wit,
conspirators, something all natural phenomena, including
theorised ones, are known to possess a singular lack of. |
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But that's just what they'd
want you to think isn't it? |
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[Wanders away muttering to himself
with a worried look on his face]. |
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//But that's just what they'd want you to think isn't it?// |
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By the way, is Bacon his real name? That's a very
weird name. Like "Sally Sausage" or "Harry
Hotlinks",
"David Donut" or whatever. |
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Bacon is... well... bacon. |
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Surprised this didn't get more up votes. It would
actually be kind of fun to implement and would
get the
conspiracy theorizers to start calling out the
logical fallacies of something associated with their
conspiracy theory. Sort of set them on the track to
critical thinking. |
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//That's a very weird name//
Actually, it's not. It's quite a common name. Linky. |
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Well then who's the clown that took a respectable
family name and applied it to strips of dead pig
flesh? |
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It came together rather like Smith or Miller I suspect. |
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To really have some fun with it, a better title might've been
'Kevin Bacon Saves the World Again.' Let them wonder and
speculate on what exactly transpired the first time. |
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// planes with one liquid in them are a thing in firefighting
aircraft, but they just use one tank because multiple tanks
are a lot heavier for the same volume of liquid // |
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Is it that true? I would have thought that large tanks in an
airplane would have to be divided up into smaller tanks.
Otherwise the liquid would slosh back and forth making the
plane unstable. I guess for fire fighting, if you have a full
tank and dump it all at once, it goes from full (no sloshing)
to empty (no sloshing), so it might not be a problem, but if
you want to release the liquid gradually, a partitioned tank,
or multiple tanks would be recommended. |
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Possibly, but multiple tanks to test shifting weight
for
new aircraft designs is definitely a thing. The one
the
guy showed me was from one of my science books
that I recognized from my childhood. |
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Main point was, there may be planes with multiple
tanks
of mind control chemicals, but that isn't what that
picture was, so what else was "modified" evidence? |
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Regarding multiple tanks, assuming you had
one outlet and the pipes between the tanks were
the same size as the ones in the load shift test
arrangement, you'd have to fly over the fire, dump
one tank, pump it full again (shifting all the weight
) dump that tank, pump it full again from the
other tanks and repeat. You can see from any
picture of the water and or retardant being
dumped they just dump the entire load from one
outlet. Maybe they have baffles to keep the water
in place. Or maybe they just fly it very carefully. |
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Road tankers definitely have baffles, so I don't see any reason
aircraft takers wouldn't. Some also have inflatable bladders
(inside the tank) to stop sloshing, but that would be excessive
weight for an aircraft I would think.
I believe (large) aircraft fuel tanks have pumps for re-
arranging the load as fuel is used. |
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Small aircraft have that as well. In fact I believe
John Denver crashed his Vareze (I think the plane
was
called) because he was distracted reaching behind
the seat trying to switch tanks. |
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Forget where I heard that, but fuel tank switching
is
a thing in small planes. I flew a Cessna 172 in my
youth and my instructor said "Don't touch the fuel
tank switch while you're flying." so I was pretty
well versed and
rehearsed in the proper procedure. Don't like to
use the term "ace pilot", but I'd say there
wasn't a pilot in history that was better than me at
not touching the fuel tank selector switch. |
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//then who's the clown that took a respectable family
name
and applied it to strips of dead pig flesh?// |
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Well, according to Wellbies much celebrated "Minor Nobles
&
Other Errata" (4th edition pg.149 addendum 6) It was a by
blow of the
Sandwich dynasty, on the
distaff side no less, big scandal at the time, very hush hush,
it seems he was jealous of the fame Lord Sandwich
enjoyed
after
appropriating
the sandwich with his name .. and this is what he came up
with. |
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However, I can't find any reference to clowning, though
from
other sources young Bacon did have surprisingly large feet I
hear, so perhaps there is some truth in that & the
swineherd who took the blame for his inception wasn't the
guilty
party after all, the circus did pass through quite
regularly back in the day. |
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There can't ever be too many Kevin Bacon ideas as
far as I'm concerned, so I fully approve. Now about
an idea entitled "I Can't Believe It's Not Kevin
Bacon's Kevin Bacon's Bacon"? I was going to post
this as a stand alone idea, but the annotation will
suffice. |
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Too bad it doesn't all rhyme. |
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My last posting went like this for no apparent reason. Only deleting and reposting corrected the double spacing. Let's see how this one goes..... (I just corrected the spacing by deleting the extra blank lines that had appeared) |
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