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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Is it also illegal for me to levitate? Or to move objects with my mind?

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Well, cloud seeding is a real thing, but it's not a thing the US does, as far as I know.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure there are a handful of states that cloud seed. It has nothing to do with the imaginary chem trails though.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I wonder if they'll outlaw dousing

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It's not illegal it just costs $10,000 (via a fine) to chemtrail people into gayness.

[–] Goretantath@lemm.ee 22 points 11 hours ago

See's man made cloud due to the action of cold metal ripping through the sky "ZOMG ITS TEH LIBS POISONING MY AIR" jumps in vehicle modified to spew toxic pitch black clouds at the push of a button and drunkenly crashes into the preschool "THIS AIN'T MY FAULT!"

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No more flights to Florida, I guess.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don't you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don't know who they are or what they're doing?" said Sen. Ileana Garcia, R-Coral Gables, the bill's sponsor, on Thursday morning.

Suddenly no longer a climate change denier.

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[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 118 points 18 hours ago (2 children)
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

In 1996 a cropduster was an American hero. Thirty years later, he’d be arrested for terrorism just doing his job.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

We learned a lot from the green revolution.

We should be arresting people for spraying chemicals that cause health issues in farm workers.

Condensation trails are not caused by spraying harmful chemicals.

[–] entwine413@lemm.ee 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bro, that's like middle school science

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 9 points 14 hours ago

Any middle school subject can be a high school subject if enough people fail at grasping the basics.

[–] Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

you might as well go right out and say that having an education higher than a 5th grader should also be banned.

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 69 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

Thing that doesn't happen is now illegal, got it. Glad to see Florida tackling the big problems facing its citizens.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 10 hours ago

Wait till you see what Florida has banned for gay folks on the basis of "things that dont happen"

I think Canada issued a travel advisory telling their queer citizens not to travel to Florida, due to the high risks

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 35 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I want them to pass this.

It would be interesting how they would enforce it.

Would they ban all planes? Or maybe just ignore the law? Or maybe start saying "these are not chemtrails, these are contrails, those are ok".

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

If the state decides to ignore any kind of court telling them otherwise, then I would imagine Florida would no longer have flyovers from any airline, and any aircraft capable of producing a contrail or wingtip vortex would no longer operate in the state.

Goodbye florida airports, I guess.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Contrails are generated by condensation of water vapor in engine exhaust. They’re not caused by wingtip vortices. All powered aircraft (besides electric ones) will generate contrails under the appropriate conditions. Contrail is in fact a contraction of “condensation trail”.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

That's why I specified or wingtip vortex.

In some situations you can see a trail behind a wingtip that can persist. although doesn't leave the huge vapor cloud that lingers for hours, I have heard plenty of ~~people~~ conspiracy nuts refer to them as "Chem trails" right along with the actual contrail. Living near an airport, you get all kinds of crazy.

[–] Walican132@lemmy.today 23 points 17 hours ago

I would normally agree with you but… this is legitimately something the constituents want. They are scared of the chem trails. Regardless that they aren’t real. To the voters it looks like the politicians are stepping up and doing what needs to be done.

It’s kinda terrifying.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 43 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I seriously hope they pass this. And then I want to see them start using it against airlines.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Conservatives seem to think all contrails are "chemtrails"
Florida's tourist economy is going to collapse when no one can fly there unless they're in a prop plane.
I'm happy for them though, they've really earned it.

[–] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 21 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Props can have contrails, too. Just can't fly anymore.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You could keep flying any plane, but they would be capped at a 20,000ish feet flight ceiling while in Florida airspace. Which would make traffic a lot worse and the flights significantly more expensive.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

And prop planes are awful to ride in cause it's so god damn loud!

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 10 hours ago

Would be beneficial for the climate and the boat companies.

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[–] Pandemanium@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

And crop dusting, ffs. Spraying actual chemicals on our food is totally fine for these people.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 27 points 17 hours ago (10 children)

Alternatively phrased: Florida proposes ban on planes from flying in or over it.

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

That would be some incredible malicious compliance. “We couldn’t make sure our planes didn’t leave ‘chem trails,’ so we just don’t fly to your state anymore.”

[–] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Only prop planes allowed

Or they could ban condensation I suppose

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

If any state in America needed to be declared a no-fly zone…

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[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 23 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Everyday I think I've heard the stupidest thing come out of the US, and they somehow trump it the very next day. Remarkable.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Sweet Sweet Florida. They sure do make them dumb down there.

[–] Franklin@lemmy.ca 6 points 15 hours ago

Given the education reforms, that's the idea.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 17 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I think this is a really shitty bill, but not for the reasons people are assuming. The actual wording is against cloud seeding, but DeSantis is trying to win over his crazies by implying it's for "chemtrails." We're kind of falling for it too here.

"Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities" (SB 56), prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight. It was OK'd 28–9.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

prohibits the injection, release, or dispersion of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance or an apparatus into the atmosphere in Florida to affect the temperature, weather, climate or intensity of sunlight.

Huh, this makes the internal combustion engine illegal.

Water is a chemical. Complete combustion of a hydrocarbon produces water, water when dispersed into the atmosphere creates clouds. Clouds affect the temperature, weather, climate and intensity of sunlight. QED any burning of hydrocarbons is illegal.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Fuck yeah. I support this bill.

The sunshine state is finally investing in solar electric airplanes

[–] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

That also makes it illegal to nuke hurricanes

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Maybe that's partly why they proposed getting it outlawed now before hurricane season, now that Mr. Hurricane Nuker is back in office, heh.

[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 17 hours ago

This is what they're doing? Friggin' idiots! Why don't they tackle the real problems?!

It is still perfectly legal to be a werewolf!

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