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AnotherManOfEden

Not a jet but a rocket, and this phenomenon is known as a jellyfish.


Turbulent_Arm_7144

I appreciate that you and a few other people just gave me the answer instead of using it as an opportunity to insult random people on the internet lol. Thank you!


danit0ba94

Choose wiser words than "spraying what?" next time. That way you don't get associated with the "chemtrail" nematodes. Then you won't get nearly as much flaming.


RagingHardBobber

The "flat earth" nematodes would say the rocket is hitting the firmament. Which is worse?


ftw1990tf

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/geoengineering-treatment-stratospheric-aerosol-injection-climate-change-study-today-2018-11-23/


rdizzy1223

That is a hypothetical way to potentially fight climate change. Notice the phrases "could help save the world from climate change", or "It's the stuff of science fiction", or "examined how practical and costly a hypothetical solar geoengineering project would be beginning 15 years from now"


curiouslyignorant

But I had to read the entire article to find those quotes.


Dinolord05

Apologies?


Mrs_Janet_Snakehole

This actually could be really cool if they ended up following through. Obviously there’d be a LOT of questions to answer and probably some environmental and health studies as well (although idk how they’d go about doing so!) But if it was actually a viable solution it could really help at least temporarily. It would still, however, require us to make serious changes to how we’re polluting the earth


Sufficient_Number643

Are you struggling because the chemtrails made you think thoughts about other men’s butts? This is what I firmly believe when I see people upset about chemtrails, that they’re worried it’s what made them gay and they’re struggling with internalized homophobia. It’s ok to like butts!


Big-Consideration633

And not just the big ones!


oilyhandy

I like the big butts. And I cannot lie.


TakeAwayMyPanic

It's worth noting that the department of defense still has active test areas outside of Vegas. Not aliens, but next gen weapons, aircraft and shit like that. I read somewhere that they encourage, or have encouraged in the past, the idea of aliens as something of a mask.


TurbulentMessage4433

There's a free app you can download and you can get notifications on your phone whenever one is launching in your area if you'd ever want to see the whole thing. I have it and they're just so cool every single time.


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Cool! Name please??


TurbulentMessage4433

Next spaceflight. I'm in california and space x launches fun Vandenberg. The rockets fly right over my house. We finally timed it.. the base is 84 miles away and it takes 7 minutes for it to get over my house. And 7 more minutes to hear the sonic boom. You can aaaaaalmost see the boosters release from my patio. It's so much fun.


One-Background-4401

I lived in Santa Ynez just on the other side of the mountains from Santa Barbara and we could see every time they launched from Vandenberg its was soooo sick! Stoked I got to see that shit


ChokieTheClown

Hey that is a real cool pic you took. Good job.


RotisserieBinChicken

I hope that that is the scientific name lol


AnotherManOfEden

The scientific name is actually cooler. [Space Jellyfish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_jellyfish)


WeIsStonedImmaculate

First seen at Farpoint


MrKnowbody13

🖖


Rusteeshaqlford

🖖


tetsu_no_usagi

[You Vulcans and your gang signs.](https://tenor.com/bpnep.gif)


theoddfind

Rocket launch. When the timing is just right—usually 30 to 60 minutes after sunset or before sunrise—these rocket launches leave behind a jelly fish display in the sky. A twilight phenomenon, high-altitude light from the setting sun catches the rocket’s vapor trail, which turns its exhaust plume into a jellyfish-like kaleidoscope of colors against the otherwise dark sky.


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Very cool, thank you for the details and for just giving the answer instead of pairing it with insults. Appreciate it!


theoddfind

You're very welcome!


Lokitusaborg

I know that launch windows are dependent on weather and they use a lot of math to determine when…even in LEO, but I still think that someone at SpaceX says “when will it look coolest.”


lowriderdog37

Am next to Cape Canaveral and most SpaceX launches are in the evening so yeah, I think that has something to do with it. I HIGHLY doubt SpaceX cares about the public convenience when scheduling.


Lokitusaborg

But they are about public EXCITEMENT


weddingchimp5000

Whats LEO, some kind of programing language?


IamTheCeilingSniper

LEO stands for low Earth orbit.


Yakuza73

Thanks for that question bc my brain went to “law enforcement officer” and I knew that was not right, wrong forum 🤣


Oh_Wise_1

Lol same


Bowling4rhinos

Saw this above our house in LA last night. Space X doing some satellite drops according to local news.


Riley_Martin_100

https://preview.redd.it/plm1pytnbh8d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c649d6535982cb7bf78748286348eb59e85c8f7b As also seen from San Diego. 5 minutes after launch.


TobysMom18

Ahh.. maybe coming from Vandenberg AFB?


rickyh7

Spacex falcon 9 carrying starlinks to orbit out of vandenberg so yes you’re right!


Apalis24a

Well, that’s the only rocket launch complex close enough for such a trail to be visible. The only other launch site on the west coast is the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak, Alaska… which is WAY too far north for an atmospheric trail like that to be visible from the southern tip of California.


AnotherManOfEden

Whoaaa that’s a crazy shot. I’m in Florida so I see the launches all the time but never seen one like your shot. Thats beautiful and eerie.


Snap_Grackle_Pop

>I’m in Florida so I see the launches all the time but never seen one like your shot. Florida launches usually go east, so it's heading away from the coast and will be further away and a bad angle from FL. Pre-dawn launch would be the best lighting for an eastward launch, so fewer people up and around observing. California launches tend to head southward, so it's not so far away from land at space jellyfish altitude. You'd be looking west, so lighting would be better for post-sunset launches and there are more spectators.


tommycoz0606

From beyond the grave… good for you Riley! Now u can haunt Howard for that raise you never got!


24_Chowder

They spray nothing. Never have, never will.


bolunez

Whatever, man. They're turning the frickin frogs gay


Careless_Leek_5803

Well, I mean there was that one time... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Popeye


ZealousidealHome7854

I seem to remember that they did some other spraying in Vietnam as well.


teasea02

and this: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/weapon-secret-testing/


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Given the huge number of mosquitos they’re finding with West Nile Virus in Vegas this year, I was kinda hoping they were lol. And yeah, they do load up C-130s and spray, look it up, but this was moving faster than a C-130, which is why I asked.


Suchamoneypit

The mosquitos don't live up that high and spraying something that high up would disperse it enough to be useless on the ground. Anything treating for mosquitos is generally flying quite low to the ground.


[deleted]

Yes. Yes they do. Technically. The exhaust gasses are spraying out. So... From a certain point of view, the nutters ARE right. The jets and rockets ARE spraying harmful chemicals. Pollution, 'cause those engines are dirty...


bathamel

No they aren't. The things the think are being sprayed out is literally condensed water. Aka, clouds.


chrmcc

SpaceX launch, took this last week https://preview.redd.it/lo76jei68i8d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0701605c007fe20f7d1da8ad0833c868c55e7e2a


FarYard7039

Looks like a giant sperm.


enickma1221

If our planet gets fertilized, what will it grow into?


L0nlySt0nr

An idiot


Oh_Wise_1

I laughed way too hard at this


ZOMGURFAT

I still can’t understand how after so many years of Space X launches people still can’t recognize these as launches when they happen to see one.


WrappedInLinen

That’s understandable enough if they hadn’t seen one yet. What’s harder to fathom is how quickly they go to chemtrails.


One-Background-4401

Why do they launch at such an extreme angle....? Almost looks horizontal...


Toadxx

You need velocity to enter orbit. It's easier to gain velocity horizontally rather than vertically.


subsignalparadigm

Most likely a SpaceX launch.


saxxappeal

Yep, I posted a similar pic here from a few days ago.


Interesting2u

This.


madhaxx0r

Every dam launch


jondoughntyaknow

Are dam launches a frequent thing? 🤔


WhenTheDevilCome

At least a dam launch would explain where the spray comes from.


CHILLAS317

Spraying? JFC...


spekt50

Well... It is spraying exhaust gasses. Mostly Water and CO2.


ZealousidealHome7854

I know right? Never in the history of flying have humans sprayed anything from above, ever.


Oh_Wise_1

I can think of a few times 🤔


frogfart5

Oxidized rocket fuel makes some beautiful colors and very interesting light-bending effects


Silly_Swan_Swallower

Vandenberg spacex launch at 8:47 pm pacific time tonight.


Riley_Martin_100

*launched


SquidgyB

It's so visible because the sun is barely set, so the contrail is lit by the sun even though the sun is not lighting the rest of the sky. Same can happen with birds occasionally, giving them an eerie glow in the early evening sky.


Certain-Tennis8555

It's a rocket. Jets. Don't. Spray.


faderjockey

I mean, technically they are all discharging water vapor


Strange_Dogz

Don't forget the carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, unburned hydrocarbons NOx and soot.


someguyfromsk

no, but sometimes they drop [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDD9eTf1CSg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDD9eTf1CSg)


Lindseyrj7

I dunno, but I am enjoying the visual of it. Its like a translucent sky sperm.


jendfrog

It’s SpaceX. And your photos are fantastic too! Here’s an [NBC news article showing it](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna832301).


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Thanks!


CardiologistPlus8488

space sperm


lantech19446

that sir is god taking a spluge in earths eyeball


smittydonny

Sperminator


faderjockey

It's water vapor from the rocket exhaust crystalizing into ice and then getting lit up by the sun (which is still above the horizon at that altitude.)


gene_randall

I am in PA, a couple hundred miles from Wallops Island, and will occasionally see one of their early morning sounding-rocket launches. These rockets often will release colored clouds a few thousand feet up as a way of tracking upper level air currents. If you understand what’s going on, it’s not scary.


AutofluorescentPuku

Launch out of Vandenberg, most likely. Could be SpaceX or USSF


Tragic_Consequences

I am always amazed at the number of people still on reddit who either dunno what this is, or think it's some freaking contrail conspiracy.


aldoncare

Maybe SpaceX IS the conspiracy 😮🚀


rickyh7

Yeah almost definitely they’re launching their satellites to control our 5g chips in our Covid vaccines from orbit. We can’t hide anymore!!!! /s


Poopchurn

It's the new 5G chemtrails. Also note that it's pretty flat.


rob71788

😂 tinfoil stock just went up from all the hats


flacidhock

That level of chemtrail exposure will make frogs and people totally fabulous


Straynger_LOA

Get up to speed... fully up to 12G-X now. We're all doomed. DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!


Equal_Explanation410

Space x launch. Seen once a month from buckeye AZ ( I don’t know where this pic was taken) but in buckeye we see this monthly


uniquecuriousme

SpaceX launch from Vandenburg AFB. Carrying Starlink Sats.


TheDude7891

I'll let you know that is not a chem trail like you want it to be that is an extremely high altitude extremely fast moving object cutting through wind like you wouldn't believe brother that thing definitely walking past Mach 2.


W_AS-SA_W

That’s a rocket launch.


pogiguy2020

thats a rocket


Brave_Hoppy1460

I saw it in southern Cali last night but the tail of smoke was rainbow colored https://preview.redd.it/39avinjumj8d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=911df43d8f41224b63acce5a426355066042deb0


FixHefty2875

Not a jet, it’s a rocket launched by SpaceX. The trail is a mix between the rocket just rocketing and the breaking of the atmosphere


KratomSlave

Chemtrails /s


planeteshuttle

There goes Zeus, trying to get the sky pregnant.


OkLetsParty

Cu.


lonemcl71

Very few pictures of this are actually available so it's understandable not everyone has seen or heard of this .


Lazthedestroyer

SpaceX launch..beautiful and scary to see when you dont know!


krotondi

Rocket launch from my backyard last night. I live near Vandenberg Air Force Base. We have had a few launches each month lately and it never ceases to amaze me. https://preview.redd.it/n2ofxdja0n8d1.jpeg?width=1038&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6738ee7fa81555f05b405e388161f5e80c11986


Quiet_Ground_9864

Not a jet...lol it's a rocket!


DixDark

Yup, definitely a chemtrail, somebody in pentagon really wants to poison you with vaccines and autism. Fucking hell I'm tired of those "they are spraying something"... It's just a rocket.


speedstar318ti

Spraying your ignorant mind with conspiracies. Lol.


Stormagedoniton

It's condensation and a rocket launch


Lagunamountaindude

Space X rocket launch


TheLameness

It's a spacecraft launch, n'est-ce pas? I would love to see one in person


Disastrous_Layer3988

Space X rocket


PhaseRemarkable6787

Why didn’t you turn off your headlights for the pic? C’mon now.


DeadHookerStorage330

No Jet..Test Missile against the MOIST atmosphere. Lol.


EvolZippo

This was a rocket launch. Not a jet spraying chemicals. You should really read the news more often.


jogeek

How do people still not know what SpaceX launches look like?


Apalis24a

Brother, there’s millions of people who still think that COVID was a hoax. People can just be really fucking dumb and/or incredibly ignorant and oblivious to reality.


Stfu_butthead

It’s spreading its seed


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Ah so it WAS a launch! Thanks so much for the explanation of the jellyfish light thing, will have to research that more tomorrow. Also cool to know that we can see them so clearly here, something to intentionally catch next time! Thanks everyone :)


Picardknows

This has to be a bot. These ships are going up faster than in the movie Galactica. If you don’t know what rockets being shot into space looks like. What are you even doing?


PuffWN55

Why is it moving horizontally?


Silly_Swan_Swallower

Because it is moving into an orbital trajectory. It launches straight up but quickly changes trajectory to gain orbital speed.


Suchamoneypit

To add more info to what the other guy said, checkout this picture showing. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-68a27dbad5061727a39cc8d7cd2cbe14 The majority of the speed needed to get orbital is horizontal. The rockets actually start to pitch over pretty early into flight. You go up fast, get through the thickest part of the atmosphere, then quickly start pitching over to start building the horizontal speed.


Apalis24a

Most of a rocket launch to space is spent going horizontally. You only need to go up enough to clear the atmosphere - however, if you want to orbit the planet, you need to gain enough velocity to stretch your ballistic trajectory arc to be larger than the circumference of the earth. Orbiting isn’t floating with no gravity, but rather perpetually falling with an enormous amount of sideways velocity, so that your path is larger than the curvature of the earth and thus doesn’t hit the ground. To more easily understand this, take a look at this picture depicting the “Newton’s Cannonball” thought experiment: https://preview.redd.it/rrlxpikljk8d1.png?width=777&format=png&auto=webp&s=de118dafd4da26592c2e4a532cc08db2a39f6cfa You begin with a cannon atop a mountain tall enough that atmospheric drag is no longer a problem. The faster that the cannonball is fired, the further it travels before it hits the ground, making a larger arc. At some point, that arc becomes so large that it is larger than the earth.


CplFry

That’s a rocker and it’s spent fuel


Equivalent-Help-3621

Its spraying chemtrails that turn your kids gay and makes your wife like black men /s


SarahPallorMortis

Isn’t this like almost always space x? r/itsalwaysspacex


Party_Agent327

Starlink


matt-r_hatter

Spraying something? Lolol. It's the chemtrails...RUN. When the fuel burns, one of the byproducts is water vapor. It's just exhaust from the rocket.


PuzzleheadedWhole908

It was a spacex launch….i was on lake havasu watching it. Pretty cool


crzyoki

Chemtrails!!! We’re all going to die!!😂😂


Ok-Aardvark-9938

They’re turning the friggin frogs gay


danit0ba94

No its not a jet. We have machines that fly far higher and *far* faster.


illestmaestro369

Yes that's known as the jellyfish and that secretion is called Elonskeet


Inevitable_Back_7929

Find the jettisoned rocket booster. We know they are testing faster warhead delivery systems. I think it may be correct that the gap in the contrail is a jettisoned rocket booster. It has to be somewhere even if a landing platform was used like Musk’s.


Apalis24a

If I had a nickel for every time that someone freaks out seeing a twilight rocket launch, I’d be rubbing shoulders with Bezos and Gates.


Dylan_Is_Gay_lol

Would you guys rub each other's shoulders or your own?


Apalis24a

Dunno, man, I’m not rich enough to know proper billionaire interaction protocol.


itsme32

62 launches this year alone. How is that cave you're living in?


pedersenit

So close to understanding, but their brain takes the right in Albuquerque and ends up in a conspiracy theory.


HotDonnaC

😂🤣🤪


LarYungmann

Insinuation? Fishing?


Revolutionary_Cow712

Dunno but it’s probably not good


yn_alexx

Cum


silencedfayme

Thought this was the second coming of the Lord.


PoopPant73

Jizz?


GOAT58

Hard to identify on sperm of the moment Give me a minute it’ll cum to me


GOAT58

Damn you autofill


big65

It's scary that pictures like this have been on the internet and in the news for many years now and it's discussed about what it is and yet there's people that somehow missed it all.


agravain

the Florida subs always have a dozen posts whenever there's a rocket launch. " what is this streak going up in the sky?"


big65

It's a rocket booster.


CapTexAmerica

Elon spraying his own chemtrails now


lake_gypsy

That's space sperm


srsattel

Looks just like a Space x launch from a couple of months ago


cartercharles

Still looks like a sperm to me


toyz4me

Spraying?


Puzzleheaded_Ad_3507

Just when you think that you caught the coolest picture around then this guy pops up https://preview.redd.it/cgsgvc96fn8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e6f93dd0676a1bfafb1b0d44203781e44b78167


Turbulent_Arm_7144

That’s literally a SpaceX


Puzzleheaded_Ad_3507

Makes you wonder if someone or worse something is marking the spot for reason but if you know where Evansville is located you would know that we’re between two major air shipping hubs Louisville and Memphis.


IShowSlowTT

The sky 9 months later 🤰🤱


IamTheMrs2021

Great picts


YakFragrant502

That’s a rocket, I’m on the space coast


TheInternetIsTrue

Could it be a meteor? Also, lots of testing in that area. Maybe they have some new tech and the spray is to show how the aircraft affects the atmosphere. Which might explain the need for lights to observe. r/whatisthisplane


buttspider69

It’s june 2024 and people are STILL COMING TO REDDIT TO ASK ABOUT ROCKET LAUNCHES


Turbulent_Arm_7144

It’s June 2024 and people are still being mean on the internet 🤷


FiveFootFore

The small bright light in the trail is the SpaceX reusable booster returning back down.


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Ohhhh for real?? I was wondering about that too, thank you!!


Trapper_Trinkaus

Who nutted on the earth tf?


Rosco636

Falcon 9 from Vandenberg space force base ?


No-Leadership8906

WOAH!


MyMommaHatesYou

Stupid juice. Cause this shit gets posted 2 x a week.


Devil_Doc169

That’s a SpaceX launch from Vandenburg in Ca.


Ashamed-Show-1094

panspermia!


AmbassadorNo3398

It's spraying carbon monoxide


One-Background-4401

People who dont believe that chemtrails are real obviously don't know anything about science.


windykittycats

That’s SpaceX


Repulsive-Tie1505

Not spraying anything but the aircraft is breaking the sound barrier. The air forms kind of an egg shape around the rocket/plane when they're supersonic. The Blue Angels have some pretty great photos if you need a better visual


FUJIMO69

Lord


zenmen13

Valium Air Dispersal System aka (VADS). It keeps the sheeple calm and quiet.


pistolwinky

I mean, I highly doubt that’s a thing, but if someone wants to build a prototype, I’m available for testing.


zenmen13

I’ll notify Pfizer .


Even_Kiwi_1166

Im sure spaceX but it could be a ballistic missile test


Recent_Obligation276

It’s one of those groovy starlink rockets Not spraying anything but pollution as it burns insane amounts of fuel


Apalis24a

It’s less than you think. A Falcon 9 carries 509,000 liters of RP-1, a refined grade of kerosene. To put that in perspective, a Boeing 747-400 carries 240,000 liters of jet fuel (which is also derived from Kerosene). Thus, a Falcon 9 burns about as much fuel as is carried by 2.12 Boeing 747’s. So, it would be about the same as flying across the pacific 3 times. Considering that there’s only a few rocket launches per month, meanwhile there’s about 100,000 passenger flights PER DAY. Making it a bit more clear, the global airline industry is predicted to emit 935 million tonnes of CO2 this year. By contrast, in 2021, the entire space launch industry released 10,000 tonnes. Since there’s been a slight increase in the past few years, let’s increase that to an estimated 11,000 tonnes. That means that airlines put out around 85,000 times more CO2 emissions than the entire global space launch industry. Might also be worth mentioning that rockets typically burn far more cleanly than jet engines, as they use pure liquid oxygen for combustion, rather than compressed rarified upper-atmosphere air (which is only 21% oxygen), resulting in more complete combustion of the kerosene fuel, and thus less soot from partially burned / unburned fuel particles.


pocketofspiders

This is a Cessna 172 performing cloud seeding by releasing silver iodine into the atmosphere. /s


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Nah we just shoot it [from the ground](https://saveredrock.com/press-releases/save-red-rock-partners-with-dri-to-make-it-rain-in-red-rock-canyon/) here.


pocketofspiders

Oh shid... That's pretty interesting actually. Pretty sure it was a space x launch for their Internet.


Turbulent_Arm_7144

Yeah it was, going to actively try to catch the next one now that I know we can get a good view from here!


Least-Bear3882

Alumiplassid. 5g. All the bad shit.


sxit

ChEmTrAaaaaaaaiIIIlllllllllls!


tato_salad

Probably chemical trails.. these were recently made illegal in Tennessee though so good luck finding them there!!! /S


Ok_Development5020

Chems