It Finally Happened…

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killbilly

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Standing on the LIRR this morning en route to the AirTrain, a guy sitting a few feet away looks up at me. We are the only two people in the train car at 0430. He’s dressed in what I would call “security guard casual.”

“Hey, are you a pilot?”
I nod. “That’s right.”
“Something I’ve been meaning to ask one of you guys…is the world flat?”

For a split second I pause, wondering if he’s messing with me, but Spidey sense says no. His eyes are guileless, his voice sincere. He really wants to know.

I chuckle a little. “No,” I say, and smile. “It’s not.”
“Oh, ok. Sometimes I hear pilots say that but I was never sure.”
“Yeah, I think they just like messing with people. I assure you, it’s not flat.”

He smiles widely, seems satisfied. “Okay, thanks man.”

Train pulls into Jamaica and we part ways.

Guys, quit messing with people. They’re buying it. There’s a law of unintended consequences here. 😁
 
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On those Facebook posts with a flight radar screen shot asking what a plane is doing (usually survey) I like to use my authoritative knowledge as an ATC to confirm that’s a typical chemtrail spray pattern. I also, for their own good of course, tell them how popular tourist spots such as the beach or amusement parks are generally targeted so that the tourists bring it home with them so they should avoid those.
 
NovemberEcho said:
On those Facebook posts with a flight radar screen shot asking what a plane is doing (usually survey) I like to use my authoritative knowledge as an ATC to confirm that’s a typical chemtrail spray pattern. I also, for their own good of course, tell them how popular tourist spots such as the beach or amusement parks are generally targeted so that the tourists bring it home with them so they should avoid those.
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You really wanna mess with people, tell them, "they don't need to spray, it's actually an additive they put in the fuel. You'll see guys spraying these little cans into the wings of turbo props everywhere if you go look for it, but mostly it's pre-mixed on the truck."

<mind blown emoji>
 
ppragman said:
You really wanna mess with people, tell them, "they don't need to spray, it's actually an additive they put in the fuel. You'll see guys spraying these little cans into the wings of turbo props everywhere if you go look for it, but mostly it's pre-mixed on the truck."

<mind blown emoji>
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Then you gotta combine theories so they build on each other. Sure, jet fuel may not melt steel beams, but do you know what’s in the chemtrail mix?
 
killbilly said:
Standing on the LIRR this morning en route to the AirTrain, a guy sitting a few feet away looks up at me. We are the only two people in the train car at 0430. He’s dressed in what I would call “security guard casual.”

“Hey, are you a pilot?”
I nod. “That’s right.”
“Something I’ve been meaning to ask one of you guys…is the world flat?”

For a split second I pause, wondering if he’s messing with me, but Spidey sense says no. His eyes are guileless, his voice sincere. He really wants to know.

I chuckle a little. “No,” I say, and smile. “It’s not.”
“Oh, ok. Sometimes I hear pilots say that but I was never sure.”
“Yeah, I think they just like messing with people. I assure you, it’s not flat.”

He smiles widely, seems satisfied. “Okay, thanks man.”

Train pulls into Jamaica and we part ways.

Guys, quit messing with people. They’re buying it. There’s a law of unintended consequences here. 😁
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This happened to me on a DH at Spirt. I just showed him the attitude indicator blew his mind.
 
One of the (far too many recently) times we had a car in the body shop I had the pleasure of my early-morning Lyft driver asking me if I’d ever seen any UFOs. Told him no, and after an awkward pause…“I guess that’s what you have to tell a civilian like me.”
 
Your run-in, including the train platform and geography theme, reminds me of a similar moment I had.

I'd flown into Chicago for a new year's eve party one year. A friend of a friend's place was the party location in a fancy loft apartment two blocks in from the water by the Navy Pier. Awesome spot; we were going to bundle up and walk out to see the fireworks later.

I landed at ORD around dusk. By the time I got to whatever train platform it was in the downtown loop area, it was dark. The sky was clear but it was a frigid new year's eve with the wind gusting off Lake Michigan...windchill had to be single digits.

With all the train platform stuff and billboards and unfamiliar skyscrapers with no Hancock/Sears Tower visible, I didn't know which way was which. I knew I was going about three blocks east of that train stop but it was one of those where you head down one of two flights of stairs and one drops you off on the correct side of a busy road, and the other would be the wrong way, and that'd be one more minute standing on the street freezing with my rolling pilot luggage waiting for a walk sign...so I wanted to at least head down the platform steps the right way.

There was a transit worker up there doing something and I approached him. Hey, which direction down from here takes me towards the lake?

His reply: "What lake??"

I thought, I'll chuckle and give him a second, he's probably just cracking a joke........... . . . . . nope.

In my mind I was thinking two things simultaneously:

1) the lake that is so big it looks like an ocean and I know it's about 300 yards away
2) this isn't the guy to ask for directions

I found the apartment...fun party.
 
Dude. The ammount of college educated people under 25 who SERIOUSLY asked me it the earth was flat is shocking. All backgrounds, all walks of life. That generation is cooked by the mess they came to age in, they trust nothing.
 
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