1677: Contrails - Revision history

42.book.addict at 01:57, 30 October 2024

2024-10-30T01:57:56Z

ConscriptGlossary: /* ==Trivia== */ new section

2024-10-30T01:56:07Z

‎==Trivia==: new section

Danger Kitty at 20:44, 22 April 2024

2024-04-22T20:44:51Z

Natg19: /* Transcript */

2022-09-22T23:24:53Z

‎Transcript

172.71.94.73: /* Explanation */

2022-06-29T10:24:30Z

‎Explanation

Jacky720: rv

2022-05-04T21:32:59Z

Show changes

Ex Kay Cee Dee at 21:32, 4 May 2022

2022-05-04T21:32:55Z

Show changes

Jacky720: rv

2022-05-04T21:32:44Z

Show changes

Ex Kay Cee Dee at 21:32, 4 May 2022

2022-05-04T21:32:43Z

Show changes

Jacky720: rv

2022-05-04T20:57:10Z

Show changes

@@ Line 29: / Line 29: @@
 ==Trivia==
-* Astronomy and astrology was confused in [[Dialect Quiz]].
+* Astronomy and astrology was confused in the later comic [[2372: Dialect Quiz]].
 {{comic discussion}}

@@ Line 27: / Line 27: @@
 :[Caption below the panel:]
 :My hobby: Spreading linguistic misinformation
 {{comic discussion}}

@@ Line 14: / Line 14: @@
 This is a comic in the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] series. Some of these comics involve [[Cueball]] giving misleading information about pedantic terms, such as [[1405: Meteor]]. Another of these comics, [[966: Jet Fuel]], even mentions chemtrails, saying that they are made of mind-control agents carried on board the planes that make them. Later they were again mentioned in [[1803: Location Reviews]].
-The title text includes a similar situation, implying that {{w|astronomy}} and {{rw|astrology}} are synonymous, with astrology being the term used in British English. However, this is incorrect. Astronomy is the scientific study of things in outer space, like stars, planets, and galaxies, whereas astrology is a system that infers a person's personality and characteristics from those same things in outer space. Though both involve studying celestial objects, astrology is considered a {{rw|pseudoscience}} rather than empirical science.
+The title text includes a similar situation, implying that {{w|astronomy}} and {{rw|astrology}} are synonymous, with astrology being the term used in British English. However, this is incorrect. Astronomy is the scientific study of things in outer space, like stars, planets, and galaxies, whereas astrology is an asinine system that infers a person's personality and characteristics from those same things in outer space. Though both involve studying celestial objects, astrology is considered a {{rw|pseudoscience}} rather than empirical science.
 The joke is that {{w|British English}} and American English use different terms to refer to the same object, and one can often learn new words for a simple thing. This, however is not the case in this comic; contrail and chemtrail do not refer to the same thing, the latter being only a conspiracy theory.

← Older revision		Revision as of 23:24, 22 September 2022
Line 35:		Line 35:
	[[Category:Conspiracy theory]]		[[Category:Conspiracy theory]]
	[[Category:Language]]		[[Category:Language]]
		+	[[Category:Aviation]]

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 {{w|Contrail}}s (short for "condensation trails") are trails of vapor produced by aircraft exhaust, trailing the airplane. They are formed from water condensing on jet fuel exhaust particles, some impurities of which provide bases for ice crystals to accumulate on. Some can dissipate in minutes, but others can last for hours or even longer, depending on the temperature, relative humidity and wind conditions at that particular altitude. Long-lasting contrails is a sign of high relative humidity and may sometimes predict the formation of clouds and rain. The {{rw|chemtrail|chemtrail conspiracy theory}} claims that contrails lasting unusually long are actually chemical or biological agents sprayed into the air for more ''nefarious'' purposes, although there is no evidence for the same.
-Here, [[White Hat]] notices that there are a lot of contrails in the air. [[Cueball]] (falsely) corrects him, saying that in {{w|American English}}, contrails are called chemtrails, which is incorrect.
+Here, [[White Hat]] notices that there are a lot of contrails in the air. [[Cueball]] (falsely) corrects him, saying that in {{w|American English}}, contrails are called chemtrails, which is incorrect. This might be a reference to the stereotype of Americans being especially likely to buy into conspiracy theories.
 This is a comic in the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] series. Some of these comics involve [[Cueball]] giving misleading information about pedantic terms, such as [[1405: Meteor]]. Another of these comics, [[966: Jet Fuel]], even mentions chemtrails, saying that they are made of mind-control agents carried on board the planes that make them. Later they were again mentioned in [[1803: Location Reviews]].