2654: Chemtrails - Revision history

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ Omit needless words. This comic has nothing to do with parasites' affecting cats' prey.

2023-07-06T01:46:44Z

‎Explanation: Omit needless words. This comic has nothing to do with parasites' affecting cats' prey.

141.101.98.128: /* Explanation */ Further tweaks...

2023-03-02T18:32:37Z

‎Explanation: Further tweaks...

DKMell: minor touch-up

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minor touch-up

172.70.86.148: /* Explanation */ subject agreement

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‎Explanation: subject agreement

162.158.186.130 at 17:33, 2 March 2023

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Kynde: /* Explanation */

2023-03-02T10:14:43Z

‎Explanation

172.71.154.88 at 18:23, 1 March 2023

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Natg19: /* Trivia */ ants

2022-10-11T02:15:41Z

‎Trivia: ants

172.70.206.163: Copyedit

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Natg19: /* Trivia */ cat

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‎Trivia: cat

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 {{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are social insects that leave chemical trails between locations such as newly discovered food sources and the nest. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony to the food, for example.  Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}.  This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
-That myth may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation,[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] on studies of chemical mind control among ants,[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191016301640] or on the effects of the common parasite ''{{w|toxoplasma gondii}}'' on cats' prey. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by {{w|Contrails|airplane engines or airfoils}}. Such linear cloud formations only sometimes arise from temperature and pressure disturbances of the passing aircraft, rather than any deliberate release, but are highly visible in the right conditions under flightpaths, and may have the appearance of "spraying" action. {{w|Nucleation#Examples of the nucleation of fluids (gases and liquids)|Vapor nucleation}} is central to both cloud seeding and contrails. People sometimes attempt chemical manipulation of unwitting people in small areas (such as scent-based marketing, commercial space scent utilization, or wearing scented products.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html]) There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]
+That conspiracy theory may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation [https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect]. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by {{w|Contrails|airplane engines or airfoils}}. There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]
-[[Ponytail]] is an entomologist, studying chemically mediated cooperative ant navigation. [[Cueball]] knows she will be annoyed when he tells her, "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?" Indeed, he gets the reaction he hoped for when she objects strongly and rejects this with a loud, "'''No!!'''" The choice of terminology is often a sore spot for those who study a particular field in depth, for example entomological discussions of "slave-making" in socially parasitic species.[https://evolve.community.uaf.edu/2015/04/23/emantcipation-when-captured-ants-rise-against-their-captors/] [[Randall]] writes in the caption that such misuse is how to annoy people like Ponytail.
+[[Ponytail]] is an entomologist, studying chemically mediated cooperative ant navigation. [[Cueball]] knows she will be annoyed when he tells her, "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?" Indeed, he gets the reaction he hoped for when she objects strongly and rejects this with a loud, "'''No!!'''" The choice of terminology is often a sore spot for those who study a particular field in depth. [[Randall]] writes in the caption that such misuse is how to annoy people like Ponytail.
-The title text humorously contrasts individual ants instinctively deciding how the whole colony behaves by using chemicals to indicate routes to food or dangers to motivate the colony to react to their individual experiences, with the human fear of loss of personal independence by being regulated by otherwise disconnected ruling elites, as depicted in the ant/technology interaction speculative fiction-themed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fISvc-yUU1A "Infrared"] music video by the alt-rock band ''Placebo''.
+The title text humorously notes that ants' "chemtrails" have the opposite effect from the chemtrails of the conspiracy theory.
 Ants are a recurring theme, as are those who study them. See for instance [[638: The Search]] which specifically deals with ants' pheromone trails or [[1610: Fire Ants]]. Chemtrails were also the subject of [[966: Jet Fuel]], [[1677: Contrails]], and were mentioned in [[1803: Location Reviews]].

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 This is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. Here [[Cueball]] annoys [[Ponytail]], an entomologist who studies ant navigation, by telling her "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?"
-Two similar comics have been released, [[2036: Edgelord]] and [[2744: Fanservice]], with same setting but different text, both with [[White Hat]] being annoyed.
+Two similar comics have been released, [[2036: Edgelord]] and [[2744: Fanservice]], with the same settings but different text, both with [[White Hat]] being annoyed.
-{{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are social insects that leave chemical trails to and from food sources or other sites. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony, for instance to return to food. Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}. This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
+{{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are social insects that leave chemical trails between locations such as newly discovered food sources and the nest. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony to the food, for example.  Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}.  This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
 That myth may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation,[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] on studies of chemical mind control among ants,[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191016301640] or on the effects of the common parasite ''{{w|toxoplasma gondii}}'' on cats' prey. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by {{w|Contrails|airplane engines or airfoils}}. Such linear cloud formations only sometimes arise from temperature and pressure disturbances of the passing aircraft, rather than any deliberate release, but are highly visible in the right conditions under flightpaths, and may have the appearance of "spraying" action. {{w|Nucleation#Examples of the nucleation of fluids (gases and liquids)|Vapor nucleation}} is central to both cloud seeding and contrails. People sometimes attempt chemical manipulation of unwitting people in small areas (such as scent-based marketing, commercial space scent utilization, or wearing scented products.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html]) There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]

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 This is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. Here [[Cueball]] annoys [[Ponytail]], an entomologist who studies ant navigation, by telling her "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?"
-Two very similar comic has been released [[2036: Edgelord]] and [[2744: Fanservice]], with same setting but different text, both with [[White Hat]] being annoyed.
+Two similar comics have been released, [[2036: Edgelord]] and [[2744: Fanservice]], with same setting but different text, both with [[White Hat]] being annoyed.
-{{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are insects that leave chemical trails to and from food sources or other events. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony, for instance, to return to food.  Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}.  This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
+{{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are social insects that leave chemical trails to and from food sources or other sites. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony, for instance to return to food. Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}. This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
 That myth may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation,[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] on studies of chemical mind control among ants,[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191016301640] or on the effects of the common parasite ''{{w|toxoplasma gondii}}'' on cats' prey. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by {{w|Contrails|airplane engines or airfoils}}. Such linear cloud formations only sometimes arise from temperature and pressure disturbances of the passing aircraft, rather than any deliberate release, but are highly visible in the right conditions under flightpaths, and may have the appearance of "spraying" action. {{w|Nucleation#Examples of the nucleation of fluids (gases and liquids)|Vapor nucleation}} is central to both cloud seeding and contrails. People sometimes attempt chemical manipulation of unwitting people in small areas (such as scent-based marketing, commercial space scent utilization, or wearing scented products.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html]) There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]

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 ==Explanation==
-This is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. Here [[Cueball]] annoys [[Ponytail]], an entomologists who study ant navigation, by telling her "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?"
+This is another comic on [[:Category:How to annoy|How to annoy]] people. Here [[Cueball]] annoys [[Ponytail]], an entomologist who studies ant navigation, by telling her "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?"
 Two very similar comic has been released [[2036: Edgelord]] and [[2744: Fanservice]], with same setting but different text, both with [[White Hat]] being annoyed.

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 {{w|Entomologist}}s study insects. {{w|Ant}}s are insects that leave chemical trails to and from food sources or other events. These chemical trails can guide other ants in their colony, for instance, to return to food.  Biologists call such signaling chemicals {{w|pheromones}}.  This comic uses the word chemtrail as a shortening of chemical trail. [[Cueball]] is intentionally conflating ant chemical trails with {{w|chemtrails}}, the subject of a fallacious conspiracy theory that the government controls the population by spraying toxic or mind-/body-transformative chemicals from high altitude aircraft.
-That myth may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation,[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] on studies of chemical mind control among ants,[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191016301640] or on the effects of the common parasite ''{{w|toxoplasma gondii}}'' on cats' prey. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by airplane engines. Such linear cloud formations only sometimes arise from temperature and pressure disturbances of the passing engines, rather than any deliberate release, but are highly visible in the right conditions under flightpaths, and may have the appearance of "spraying" action. {{w|Nucleation#Examples of the nucleation of fluids (gases and liquids)|Vapor nucleation}} is central to both cloud seeding and contrails. People sometimes attempt chemical manipulation of unwitting people in small areas (such as scent-based marketing, commercial space scent utilization, or wearing scented products.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html]) There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]
+That myth may be partly based on the practice of {{w|cloud seeding}}, which uses chemical flares containing silver nitrate to attempt to increase precipitation,[https://www.vox.com/videos/23290459/cloud-seeding-manmade-rain-future-perfect] on studies of chemical mind control among ants,[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022191016301640] or on the effects of the common parasite ''{{w|toxoplasma gondii}}'' on cats' prey. Despite [[1677: Contrails|occasional conflation]], chemtrails are distinct from "contrails," short for "condensation trails," which are cloud-like lines in the sky created by {{w|Contrails|airplane engines or airfoils}}. Such linear cloud formations only sometimes arise from temperature and pressure disturbances of the passing aircraft, rather than any deliberate release, but are highly visible in the right conditions under flightpaths, and may have the appearance of "spraying" action. {{w|Nucleation#Examples of the nucleation of fluids (gases and liquids)|Vapor nucleation}} is central to both cloud seeding and contrails. People sometimes attempt chemical manipulation of unwitting people in small areas (such as scent-based marketing, commercial space scent utilization, or wearing scented products.[https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/3469-smells-shoppers-spend-more.html]) There is very little evidence that sophisticated mind control posited by chemtrail conspiracists is possible, even after extensive research.[https://www.google.com/books/edition/Poisoner_in_Chief/U6iDDwAAQBAJ]
 [[Ponytail]] is an entomologist, studying chemically mediated cooperative ant navigation. [[Cueball]] knows she will be annoyed when he tells her, "So, I hear you're really into chemtrails?" Indeed, he gets the reaction he hoped for when she objects strongly and rejects this with a loud, "'''No!!'''" The choice of terminology is often a sore spot for those who study a particular field in depth, for example entomological discussions of "slave-making" in socially parasitic species.[https://evolve.community.uaf.edu/2015/04/23/emantcipation-when-captured-ants-rise-against-their-captors/] [[Randall]] writes in the caption that such misuse is how to annoy people like Ponytail.

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