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In reply to the discussion: 'Checking out at the store, [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Is ongoing 24/7, with about seventy planes per County in the USA doing stuff to our skies.
Several years back, there was a bidding process for such service and it was priced for at least ten billions of dollars for one fleet of 70 planes for One Single County, but it is far more pervasive than one county.
I imagine the black ops protion of our budget (the Federal government's budget) handles it.
I used to try and do my part to save the earth, but when I walk the 1.5 miles to the grocery store, uphill going there, look above me, and see the stuff being sprayed, at a cost of so much money, and knowing that among the other things in the mix (barium, strontium, etc) that jet fuel is added, I get sick thinking about it.
And I have no other explanation for aerial activity my husband and i charted the entire summer of 2009. While sitting on the banks of Clear Lake (The Lake,) the two of us would watch a plane skimming over the ridges of foothills of ClearLake (the California City,) then going from that altitude of around 4.700 feet clear up to 15 to 20K feet, then back down to around 4,400 feet, all in the space of nine to eleven miles of territory that the plane covered. I live way out in the country - no airports near me. And flying like that is a criminal charge for any pilot attempting it, except during emergencies, and it totally forbidden by the military over residential areas with farmers and tracts of housing below them. Yet I would chart some six to eight planes doing this is a six hour period of time.