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In reply to the discussion: The Man Who Tricked Chemtrails Conspiracy Theorists [View all]stevenleser
(32,886 posts)First of all is that the chemtrail conspiracy is that the government is trying to poison us with dropping chemicals out of planes. That means that the chemicals would not stay in the trail, they would disperse and fall to earth. So it is not required for the balloon to actually make contact with the trails, just get up higher and closer to them in order to get as good a sample as possible, and then compare that to a baseline which would be a day when there were no trails.
Second, balloons can be tethered, and it is also possible to attach apparatuses to them that give you some steering control. Again, considering what I said in the first paragraph, the steering could be very rudimentary. The balloon would only need to be positioned in the general area a few hundred or thousand feet below the trail.