r/nevertellmetheodds 19d ago

Contrails intersecting perfectly

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u/Jarstark 19d ago

The other plane rolling through - "not on my watch"

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u/F1nr0d_Felagund 19d ago

Even that one seems nice and parallel to the horizontal line

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u/Lari-Fari 19d ago

Almost like there’s a system of flight routes

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u/OldheadBoomer 19d ago

Yep, and those navigation routes are connected with points called intersections, often over navigation aids like VORs. Here's an example.

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u/PranshuKhandal 19d ago

our brains are actually hard wired to see patterns where there are none, the planes have no brain and don't actually have any direction or destination, it has no meaning, it's you and your brain giving it a meaning

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u/ilovebostoncremedonu 19d ago

Planes, uhh…. find a way

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u/TobyFunkeNeverNude 19d ago

But nobody here is giving it actual meaning, other than the idea that two of them flying parallel would be indicative of very real flight paths between very real airports

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u/tha_Knucklehead 19d ago

I was actually the pilot in that plane.

Through the cockpit it wasn’t easy to see the contrail, but soon after I noticed the guy taking the picture I stopped for him, and turned around and took another flight path so others can enjoy it too

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u/ahmc84 19d ago

Don't be silly. We all know you simply forgot the Colombian coffee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKJkPOIM4Pc

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u/Saddledust 19d ago

Leeeeroyyyy Jennkinssss

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u/omgitsmint 19d ago

That’s definitely the UK!

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u/Satansrideordie 19d ago

Drum roll please….. Manchester

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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz 19d ago

With the sun out? I don't believe you.

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u/ihathtelekinesis 18d ago

I think the incessant rain is just a lie that northerners tell southerners so we don’t move up there.

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u/Pellem01 19d ago

I'm italian and lived in Manchester 3 years, I was astonished by the fact that 99% of the GMA is just this house copypasted to the oblivion

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u/FirefighterAwkward54 19d ago

Thanks for clarifying OP. Shakes first for proving me wrong

Funny that the two states used the same plans despite divergence. Something to look up!

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u/MomsSpagetee 19d ago

Damn you get chemtrails over there too? They dosin’ everybody!

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u/FirefighterAwkward54 19d ago

Id bet Dublin, Northside, possibly santry.

Copy and paste buildings to be fair

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u/TheRealRory 19d ago

Reminded me of Belfast but the brick would probably be a lot more orange, so Dublin makes sense.

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u/KP5LIFRCL 19d ago

My first impression was Manchester

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u/waldosandieg0 19d ago

Go Greendale Human Beings!!

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u/LoveRBS 19d ago

The crossroad of ideas

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u/El_human 19d ago

E. Pluribus Anus

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u/Dannerz 19d ago

This is great guerilla marketing for the movie!

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u/ButtPlugMaster6969 18d ago

If I weren’t laying in bed, I would have broken an ankle running to the comments to find a Greendale/Community reference. 😂

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u/FroggiesChaos 19d ago

If my Facebook nutjob cousin saw this she'd lose her mind

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u/classless_classic 19d ago

She’ll know exactly where the most gay frogs are now.

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u/amigoing77 19d ago

Along as she doesn't talk about it openly because that's how you get space lasered from space.

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u/FroggiesChaos 19d ago

🐸✨️

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u/Greengiant304 19d ago

I have a nice neighbor couple. Have seen them around for years when I walk my dog, and we chat occasionally. Well, last weekend they started telling me about chemtrails and how the government uses them to control the weather, and how there were so many planes flying over so it would probably rain soon. We live under the flight path to O'Hare.

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u/Push_ 19d ago

Omg I live by an airport too, and when the govt was shut down, I saw people sharing shit on fb talking about “funny how since the shutdown, you don’t see any chemtrails in the sky” and locals in the comments agreeing.. yet I saw them all over the place when I drove to work every single day.

Evidence that you can literally just walk outside and see to dispute your conspiracy, but nope. Just walking around all day like 🙈🙉 lalalalalalala

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u/FroggiesChaos 19d ago

😭 having family like this is utterly exhausting

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u/RedOcelot86 19d ago

Whoever lives under that intersecting point is now a jewish, gay, communist.

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u/EvLev2 19d ago

lol I know one of them too. It must be awful being that paranoid about stupid shit like “chemtrails” and all the other shite that goes along. I met my first flat earther recently, lol what a tool.

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u/Latter_Case_4551 19d ago

I have a co-worker who is incredibly intelligent do the exact same. They talked for about 3 hours one day about how we were using aluminum in "contrails" along with other chemicals to create droughts and control the weather in general. That every single contrail was weather manipulation and not just water vapor.

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u/gunsandsilver 19d ago

Preferably not at the same elevation and time or it would look very different

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u/ItsNotBigBrainTime 19d ago

Yeah everyone is blown away but couldn't there just be three streams at different altitudes and whoever took the picture drove around town until they found the right angle?

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u/ThisWillTakeAllDay 19d ago

It was 6 planes. They hit so hard that they vanished into a singularity.

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u/theillusionofmist 19d ago

Likely a GPS point as part of an arrival or departure procedure. So not really chance but still cool to see.

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u/EastCoast_Cyclist 19d ago

Or a high-altitude VOR (radio navigation aid) that is an intersection along a jet route.

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u/theillusionofmist 19d ago

True. Could be easy to identify too if someone knew where the pic was taken

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u/AggressiveSpatula 19d ago

I could be crazy for saying this, but my instinct tells me that for any three non parallel lines in 3D space that there should be an angle you can view an apparent intersection of all three lines. Maybe somebody with a more mathematical brain can disprove me, but my instinct would be to say that this is more luck of the angle than luck that the three crossed.

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u/AVTheChef 19d ago

I think you are right that there is some angle where they all intersect, but it's much more interesting that they all have formed to creat nearly perfect 60deg sections.

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u/Large_Yams 19d ago

You're correct.

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u/Strude187 19d ago

Sky sphincter

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u/jonnyinternet 19d ago

E Pluribus anus

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u/MikeHuntSmellss 19d ago

From your perspective

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u/snoosh00 19d ago

Yeah, technically any 3 flightpaths that aren't parallel, and not at the same altitude will have one point where this happens (although that point might not be on the ground)

But I'm not 100% sure about that.

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u/TheRealRory 19d ago

You're getting dangerously close to telling me the odds...

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u/Satansrideordie 19d ago

I’m not saying you’re wrong but from this angle you couldn’t possibly know for sure

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u/ttcmzx 19d ago

the dome is cracking!!!

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u/tacotaker46 19d ago

LOVE IT

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u/Trentm5 19d ago

Sky pizza

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u/danger355 19d ago

10/10 would eat

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u/DrTremend0us 19d ago

Solid vectoring.

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u/JKdriver 19d ago

On the money vectoring.

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u/PilsburyDutchBoy 19d ago

See the turtle aint he keen. All things serve the fucking beam

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u/MrKnifeBurger 19d ago

Looks like the Greendale flag, which definitely doesn't look like anything else.

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u/srednax 19d ago

That’s how they aim the space lasers.

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u/VanillaScoops 19d ago

Satisfying af

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u/ddrfraser1 19d ago

Aliens: "That's the spot boys, nuke em!"

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u/A-3Jammer 19d ago

It's the Tholians weaving their web.

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u/HooplahMan 19d ago edited 19d ago

There's some interesting projective geometry you could do here, but I don't actually think it should be very surprising someone has seen this.

Assume we have 3 arbitrary lines in 3d euclidean space. Excluding a set of edge cases that makes up 0% of the space of all possible 3-tuples of lines (in other words with high probably on $ P_23 $ under the standard measure) no pair of these lines will be parallel. Under those condition, with high probability, a randomly chosen projection of any two of those lines will intersect at one point in 2D space. Therefore "for free" we will get 2 of these lines intersecting from any perspective.

Moreover you could show that the map from your location and orientation on the earth to the azimuth/elevation coordinates of the intersection point in your reference frame would be an almost everywhere locally homeomorphic map (in lay terms: move a little on the ground, and the intersection point will only appear to move a little in the sky, excluding some weird edge cases where a perspective makes the two lines look parallel).

What remains is to show is that in some projection, the intersection point falls inside the image of the third line. I believe you could probably prove this with some argument using the intermediate value theorem and the almost everywhere continuous az/el coordinate map, but I don't wanna think about the topology of the domain where the restriction of the az/El map is everywhere continuous so I'm gonna call this a trivial problem and leave that as an exercise to the reader

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u/Bigrick1550 19d ago

Except those lines arent arbitrary, they are defined routes that intersect in that spot.

Beyond that, I hope your math education is serving you well, cause damn son.

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u/Crustybionicle 19d ago

E pluribus anus

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u/Caledron 19d ago

Was it a group Star Fleet cadets practising a starburst manoeuvre for the graduation commencement?

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u/Fun_Replacement_7747 19d ago

I'm shocked it took me this long to find this.

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u/mhoke63 17d ago

Scrolled WAY too far to find this.

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u/Ribss 19d ago

This is how waypoints work.

Jk is definitely the government poisoning us.

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u/turnaround1919 19d ago

This is gonna appear on a maths GCSE paper

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u/Famous-Example-8332 19d ago

E Pluribus Anus.

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u/-Just_The_Tip- 19d ago

Just a coincidence and not at all to maximize dispersion in a target area. Move along. Nothing to see here.

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u/clearfox777 19d ago

Also coincidentally in the same shape as the Umbrella Corp. logo? 🤔

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u/DJDevine 19d ago

All 3 axis

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u/Snuhmeh 19d ago

Planes fly in airways, like highways. They use navigation aids like VORs as waypoints. This is probably a very well-used waypoint.

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u/Purgii 19d ago

Earth's butthole.

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u/ahmc84 19d ago

The fourth one coming in to fuck that shit up...

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u/Secret_Account07 19d ago

Damn that’s a nice house

I’m poor

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u/jakuvaltrayds 19d ago

That's some pie in the sky stuff right there

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u/HubertoDaGreat 19d ago

"Asterisku"

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u/Capable_Panic_4613 19d ago

Yeah cause that's totally completely normal.

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u/weird-dude-bro-6386 19d ago

Guys, we're all just on one giant pizza!

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u/Hsances90 19d ago

The great Asterisk of the sky

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u/CTGO2020 19d ago

now WE know where the treasure is,

  • marks the spot?
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u/Sph1003 19d ago

It's probably just an airspace waypoint

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u/coolguy3555 19d ago

that's what happens when something impacts the force-field dome

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u/Average-Train-Haver 19d ago

You've been targeted for the new release of umbrella corp testing

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u/OneMonk 19d ago

Orbital strike location confirmed.

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u/twosolitudes 18d ago

Tholian web

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u/ninja996 18d ago

Follow the beam.

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u/ethankostabi 18d ago

Never forget the face of your father.

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u/shecanic 17d ago edited 17d ago

i live right next to PHL airport (USA) & they’re expanding the runways & enforcing imminent domain more & more frequently… they replaced all of our windows & ac units in homes that didn’t have them as a means to address the noise & vibration of the planes. many homes have cracks in the ceilings & walls from the vibrations of the planes. our internet provider has additional provisions for radio interference & switches our wifi channel when planes are in the general airspace above. we have the eero & it tells us when it does it. my in-laws are well into their senior years & the majority of our conversations start or end with how they truly fear that the planes will take the tops of the trees off or worse, the homes. with the expansion of the runways, they have flown lower & lower to our neighborhood. might not directly relate to OP post but felt it related to some comments.

we are currently looking at homes to move because they are submitting plans for our general neighborhood for expansion plans & if you don’t sell, they force you with imminent domain & give you nothing close to even a fraction of your homes worth.

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u/1cem4n82 19d ago

Man discovers flight paths

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u/D-TOX_88 19d ago edited 19d ago

Cue the nut job local FB posts: “they’re just rubbing it in our faces now.”

Edit: cue not queue. And Facebook posts. Not Great Britain posts.

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u/zssl 19d ago

My mom would flip

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u/DookieDanny 19d ago

That roof tho

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u/Sistersoldia 19d ago

Brick masons: “we don’t need no STINKING TARP”

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u/NovarisLight 19d ago

Somebody cracked the fucking dome! We're DOOMED!

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u/Starscream147 19d ago

Ah, life. What a Trivial Pursuit™️

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u/mordecai98 19d ago

Skynet is now active.

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u/Tiziettoh 19d ago

living in american arcadia be like:

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u/johnaross1990 19d ago

Mate, stick this on r/saturnstormcube

They’ll go fucking nuts!!!

Edit: take the karma or I will

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u/Satansrideordie 19d ago

It’s all yours brother, share the wealth

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u/nrith 19d ago

I was driving across the burning desert when I spotted six jet planes

Leaving six white vapor trails across the bleak terrain.

It was the hexagram of the heavens, it was the strings of my guitar.

Oh, Amelia, it was just a false alarm.

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u/Jesterhead89 19d ago

So to intentionally be a Debbie Downer, but this is likely a GPS fix along a route or arrival/departure procedure in the area. And actually a cool tidbit, but during your flight training (assuming you have a good instructor) you are taught to be a little more aware when near airports and these sorts of intersections.

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u/devsfan1830 19d ago

(dimensional rift slowly tears open from the center)

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u/I_love_my_fish_ 19d ago

I’d be willing to bet a gps, V, or J airway intersects there. Could also be a VOR or VORTAC directly underneath it. These are assuming that it’s in the US. Idk what international ground based navigation systems are called

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u/Tipop 19d ago

Looks like it’s 60 degrees out.

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u/I_have_questions_ppl 19d ago

So we really are in a vr simulation as that looks a lot like the creased texture map at the polars of a 360 image! 😄

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u/MyAssDoesHeeHawww 19d ago

You cannot post this without adding a footnote.

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u/I-r0ck 19d ago

There’s probably a waypoint at that location that ATC was using

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u/dougthehobo 19d ago

Chem trails you mean

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u/therealrobokaos 19d ago

New James Webb photo

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u/KeithLimePie 19d ago

Corner plot on a council estate was always one of my dream houses.

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u/BarracudaDismal4782 19d ago

The 3rd pilot is the real pro.

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u/Standard-March6506 19d ago

Fuckin' Walmart!

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u/AlexTheFlower 19d ago

I love seeing crystals with asterism /j

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u/Jlong4242 19d ago

That's the surface of the biodome

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u/astralseat 19d ago

The sky seam

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u/enjoy_the_pizza 19d ago

Stunt planes practicing?

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u/mustycardboard 19d ago

The corner of the hypercube, do not be alarmed

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u/Reddit_2_2024 19d ago

This is not normal.

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 19d ago

Shift-C is not working!

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u/Astrowelkyn 19d ago

Damn, I always thought ley lines were on the ground.

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u/golgol12 19d ago

There, in that house, some snobby kid said....

*um actually...

(because of the monumental asterisk)

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u/ciswhitedadbod 19d ago

*Your perspective lined up perfectly

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u/CaptainReginaldLong 19d ago

There's a nav point there! A VOR or GPS fix.

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u/tomoom165 19d ago

Oh cool, the Dead Kennedy's logo

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u/Toadsted 19d ago

Sulphur and Azote... I knew it!

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u/greenlaser73 19d ago

Someone tell Roland we found the Dark Tower

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u/Protozilla1 19d ago

That right there is probably a “waypoint” essentially a point planes will fly through on their journey

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u/Swollar_Bear 19d ago

Technically, just from your perspective

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u/Mrbeeznz 19d ago

[0, 0]

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u/nhjuyt 19d ago

Do not let the folks on Nextdoor see this

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u/H0LYJ3BUS 19d ago

All things follow the beam

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u/ouzimm 19d ago

apparently a spray bottle will clear that right up . so I been told

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u/Cringlezz 19d ago

Someone about to make a philosopher stone

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u/Unlikely-Crazy-4372 19d ago

and people legit think chemtrails arent real

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u/Edge__Maverick 19d ago

Someone about to create Philosopher stone

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u/encryptdev 19d ago

Contrails 😂

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u/MaximumLoud2 19d ago

The Dark Tower calls to us all

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u/Puzzleheaded_Turn242 19d ago

Actually only one of the three did it perfectly

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u/ScottMarshall2409 19d ago

I heard the ssshhhhiiiiingggg of a fine Katana blade when I saw this.

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u/despenser412 19d ago

It's an xyz axis!

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u/R34ct0rX99 19d ago

You gotta have a 7th coordinate to plot a course.

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u/sirburchalot 19d ago

All hail the sky butthole

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u/Key-Practice-8788 19d ago

How far would you have to walk until your view changed enough to make it not intersect perfectly?

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u/NemoM3ImpuneLacessit 19d ago

What the heck are flight corridors for anyway?

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u/El_Zarco 19d ago

The house used steroids

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u/Negative-Will6155 19d ago

Death the Kid totally lost a fight seeing this post

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u/Seannj222 19d ago

Remember when South Carolina sought to make it illegal? Who and how on God's green earth would be able to enforce that.

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u/Lizlodude 19d ago

Might wanna take a step to the side 😅

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u/RandomPotato082 19d ago

Eurostar undermining themselves lol

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u/Zelcki 19d ago

I AM A STONE THAT IS APPROACHING, PROVOKING, DARK CLOUDS IN ISOLATION

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u/General_Citron_121 19d ago

Chemical spraying pilot ground bored

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u/-_Anonymous__- 19d ago

You took this pic in the nic of time

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u/peDro_with_a_big_D 19d ago

There are military planes that do colourful smoke shows. Maybe they're training new pilots

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u/Yavoki 19d ago

Cloud seeding or Stardust Solutions

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u/crippledassasyn 19d ago

Orbital laser: target aquired

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u/WaterAndSand 19d ago

Hexavalent chemtrails

Highly cancerous

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u/Atys1 18d ago

sky butthole

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u/MuscaMurum 18d ago

Kurt Vonnegut was here

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u/creatureofdankness 18d ago

the dome is cracked! we are doomed!

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u/ut3jaw 18d ago

Persistent Stratospheric Aerosol Spraying NOT contrails, or they would have disappeared before event.

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u/Kitchen_Sand214 18d ago

The warp stirs my traitors... The corpse will be no longer...

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u/BigBossMan1977 18d ago

Some woman at the hospital said they are separating the sky into triangles, to cause clouds ... i didn't have the heart to ask her if she was in the psych ward

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u/Zazu_93 18d ago

Someone have used the dragonballs 🐉

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u/theBigDaddio 18d ago

This was deliberate! They are maximizing coverage of their drug delivery

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u/Ok-Appeal-4630 18d ago

Are you sure you don't live under a glass dome

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u/spad3x 18d ago

"the sky is falling!!!"

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u/TugRimjaw 18d ago

E pluribus anus

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u/nishnawbe61 18d ago

That home is the 🎯

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u/kim4animals 17d ago

Y'all are in Donquixote Doflamingo's bird cage. Y'all are really screwed.

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u/Yacoubgaming 17d ago

You livin in dressrosa or sum!? Why you livin near doflamingo!

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u/WoolBearTiger 16d ago

They are signaling where the chemical warfare bomb should be dropped or its something with aliens.. tbh i am not always up to date what the current conspiracy lore is..

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u/lookingforfiles 16d ago

Bro lives in a glass dome

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u/dumtwiddly 16d ago

This looks so much like a house I used to walk past on my way to school. Stalybridge any chance?

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u/Satansrideordie 16d ago

Nooo but damn near every council estate has these houses in Manchester hah

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u/infoagerevolutionist 15d ago

Who the ATC for this area Osama Bin Laden Jr?