Million dollar prize in relation to conspiracy theories

[Year Zero]

I know the prize is usually for "paranormal" events, but would someone proving the existence of "chemtrails" be elgible? I am wondering because I'm in the middle of a debate with someone who now claims that he has personally seen "chemtrails" being distributed. He offered photos but I demanded video due to the unique nature of his claims.

[tsg]

[Disclaimer: I don't represent JREF or the Million Dollar Challenge]

I would think not. There isn't anything supernatural about a government conspiracy. Unless they were conspiring with ghosts...

[Bone_Vulture]

I agree. A massive conspiracy unfolded will seem both unbelievable and amazing, but it is not a supernatural event on its own.

[AnotherSillyAlias]

Maybe I've spent a little too much time living under a rock but what, exactly, is a chemtrail?

[Bone_Vulture]

Maybe I've spent a little too much time living under a rock but what, exactly, is a chemtrail?

Long chemical trails (like the vapor trail jets leave) in the sky, supposedly the government using the method for administering mind control / cancer / gay agents to the general population.

[AnotherSillyAlias]

Long chemical trails (like the vapor trail jets leave) in the sky, supposedly the government using the method for administering mind control / cancer / gay agents to the general population.

Ahh.. I see. I was wondering why I felt my mind was being controlled by gays with cancer.

[patchbunny]

I know the prize is usually for "paranormal" events, but would someone proving the existence of "chemtrails" be elgible? I am wondering because I'm in the middle of a debate with someone who now claims that he has personally seen "chemtrails" being distributed. He offered photos but I demanded video due to the unique nature of his claims.
Must be some proof that allows him to differentiate between contrails and chemtrails. What's the visual difference between the two?

As for video, I've seen contrails forming all the time. Until I see video of Airman Bigglestein dumping "Bacteria X" into the chemtrail injection unit, footage of white streaks forming behind planes isn't going to cut it.

[AnotherSillyAlias]

As for video, I've seen contrails forming all the time. Until I see video of Airman Bigglestein dumping "Bacteria X" into the chemtrail injection unit, footage of white streaks forming behind planes isn't going to cut it.

"Bacteria X" is not so bad. That simply makes you unable to see the black helicopters. It's "Bacteria Y" and "Virus Z" that are the most insidious invasions of your personal privacy.

If you see airman Bigglestein wearing a tinfoil hat and magnetic mask while pouring stuff into the injection unit you should start to worry.

[Antiquehunter]

Which one is the one that makes you gay again?

[AnotherSillyAlias]

Which one is the one that makes you gay again?

Too much exposure to your computer monitor does that.

[Antiquehunter]

That does it. I'm sueing Toshiba. There's no warning label "Repeated exposure to this laptop may result in you acquiring better fashion sense and to cry more readily when watching movies.'

[Year Zero]

[Disclaimer: I don't represent JREF or the Million Dollar Challenge]

I would think not. There isn't anything supernatural about a government conspiracy. Unless they were conspiring with ghosts...


Right but they would give you a million for a UFO claim right? That would technically not be supernatural, just like the chemtrail video footage.

[c4ts]

I think the challenge is about paranormal abilities more than paranormal events in general. A sampling of toxic gas or a photo of something which is allegedly a chemtrail might not qualify, but if you said you had the ability to shoot chemtrails out your butt with chi, yeah, that would make you elligible. Then again, everybody does that...

[Year Zero]

I think the challenge is about paranormal abilities more than paranormal events in general. A sampling of toxic gas or a photo of something which is allegedly a chemtrail might not qualify, but if you said you had the ability to shoot chemtrails out your butt with chi, yeah, that would make you elligible. Then again, everybody does that...


Ass chemtrails has already been proven. Nobody will give you a cent for that any more.

[David Swidler]

Dang! I thought I was onto something there....

[AnotherSillyAlias]

Dang! I thought I was onto something there....

Perhaps you could cause somebody else's arse to spontaneously produce chemtrails. This might be an acceptable psychic event.

[Orphia Nay]

Million dollar prize in relation to conspiracy theories

It seems there's a lot of rich woos about these days, desperate (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/$50MillionReward.htm) for validation.

Have you got a link to this million dollar offer, Year Zero?

[Year Zero]

It seems there's a lot of rich woos about these days, desperate (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/$50MillionReward.htm) for validation.

Have you got a link to this million dollar offer, Year Zero?


What I'm trying to do is play the "put up or shut up" card on these chemtrail guys.

[tsg]

What I'm trying to do is play the "put up or shut up" card on these chemtrail guys.

Unfortunately, "apply for the JREF Million" doesn't usually work. There are as many woo ideas about the "non-existence" of the Million Dollar Prize as there are woo ideas trying to get it.

[LordoftheLeftHand]

I know the prize is usually for "paranormal" events, but would someone proving the existence of "chemtrails" be elgible? I am wondering because I'm in the middle of a debate with someone who now claims that he has personally seen "chemtrails" being distributed. He offered photos but I demanded video due to the unique nature of his claims.

I've seen a plane leave a chemtrail over a city before. I believe the chemical was H2O.

LLH

[tsg]

I've seen a plane leave a chemtrail over a city before. I believe the chemical was H2O.

LLH

Not DiHydrogen Monoxide (http://www.dhmo.org/)! Do you know how dangerous that stuff is?

[Antiquehunter]

Isn't DiHydrogen Monoxide the stuff that turns you gay?

[Year Zero]

Isn't DiHydrogen Monoxide the stuff that turns you gay?


No that would be Dihydrogen HOMOxide. Big difference.

[YouBelieveWHAT?]

Actually I think the scare about Dihydrogen Monoxide is exaggerated.

My dog has been drinking nothing else for her entire life - and she's just turned 15 year old!

Mind you, I do dilute it with water first - Ah, maybe that makes it Homeopathic Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Perhaps that's good enough to win the million? (not sure what a 15 year old dog could spend it on, though?)

YBW

[Crispy Duck]

http://www.chemtrailcentral.com/

These guys are a favourite on a pilots' forum I frequent (www.pprune.org). The site is an interesting insight (pardon the pun) into the mechanics of self-delusion - eg the pictures of a perfectly normal sky with a contrail with the caption underneath "does this look normal to you?!?!?!?!!1eleven".

There was a famous incident where an aircraft engineer hoaxed the chemtrailers, pretending to have turned whistle-blower and handing over technical drawings of the secret chemical tanks installed on all US civil jets... good stuff.

:)

[Lynx2174]

Isn't DiHydrogen Monoxide the stuff that turns you gay?


It's a known fact that every gay person in the world has drunken DiHydrogen Monoxide pure or in a solution at some time in their life, and many on them drink it every day.

so you make homeopathic dihydrogen monoxide which cures the effects of undiluted dihydrogen monoxde... GENIOUS! you could make millions selling it. better dilute it so far that there isn't a single molecule of the original dihydrogen monoxide left- just to be safe.

[Soapy Sam]

(www.pprune.org (http://www.pprune.org/)). -Crispy Duck.

Interesting site. To see oursels as ithers see us.
"Self loading freight", eh?

[Crispy Duck]

(www.pprune.org (http://www.pprune.org/)). -Crispy Duck.

Interesting site. To see oursels as ithers see us.
"Self loading freight", eh?

Indeed :) But at least passengers are treated with more respect than the journos who troll the site looking for material for 'PLANE OF DEATH!!!!' stories...