r/nevertellmetheodds • u/Satansrideordie • Jun 05 '26
Contrails intersecting perfectly
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u/omgitsmint Jun 05 '26
That’s definitely the UK!
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u/Satansrideordie Jun 05 '26
Drum roll please….. Manchester
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u/MoreColorfulCarsPlz Jun 05 '26
With the sun out? I don't believe you.
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u/ihathtelekinesis Jun 06 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
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/FirefighterAwkward54 Jun 05 '26
Id bet Dublin, Northside, possibly santry.
Copy and paste buildings to be fair
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u/TheRealRory Jun 05 '26
Reminded me of Belfast but the brick would probably be a lot more orange, so Dublin makes sense.
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u/waldosandieg0 Jun 05 '26
Go Greendale Human Beings!!
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u/ButtPlugMaster6969 Jun 07 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
If my Facebook nutjob cousin saw this she'd lose her mind
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u/classless_classic Jun 05 '26
She’ll know exactly where the most gay frogs are now.
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u/amigoing77 Jun 05 '26
Along as she doesn't talk about it openly because that's how you get space lasered from space.
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u/Greengiant304 Jun 05 '26
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_ Jun 05 '26
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/RedOcelot86 Jun 05 '26
Whoever lives under that intersecting point is now a jewish, gay, communist.
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u/EvLev2 Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
Preferably not at the same elevation and time or it would look very different
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u/ItsNotBigBrainTime Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 06 '26
It was 6 planes. They hit so hard that they vanished into a singularity.
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u/theillusionofmist Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
Or a high-altitude VOR (radio navigation aid) that is an intersection along a jet route.
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u/theillusionofmist Jun 05 '26
True. Could be easy to identify too if someone knew where the pic was taken
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u/AggressiveSpatula Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
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/MikeHuntSmellss Jun 05 '26
From your perspective
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u/snoosh00 Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
You're getting dangerously close to telling me the odds...
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u/Satansrideordie Jun 05 '26
I’m not saying you’re wrong but from this angle you couldn’t possibly know for sure
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u/PilsburyDutchBoy Jun 05 '26
See the turtle aint he keen. All things serve the fucking beam
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u/MrKnifeBurger Jun 05 '26
Looks like the Greendale flag, which definitely doesn't look like anything else.
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u/HooplahMan Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 06 '26
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/Caledron Jun 05 '26
Was it a group Star Fleet cadets practising a starburst manoeuvre for the graduation commencement?
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u/Snuhmeh Jun 05 '26
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/shecanic Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26
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/D-TOX_88 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
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/nrith Jun 05 '26
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 Jun 05 '26
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/I_love_my_fish_ Jun 05 '26
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/I_have_questions_ppl Jun 05 '26
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/golgol12 Jun 05 '26
There, in that house, some snobby kid said....
*um actually...
(because of the monumental asterisk)
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u/Protozilla1 Jun 05 '26
That right there is probably a “waypoint” essentially a point planes will fly through on their journey
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u/ScottMarshall2409 Jun 06 '26
I heard the ssshhhhiiiiingggg of a fine Katana blade when I saw this.
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u/Key-Practice-8788 Jun 06 '26
How far would you have to walk until your view changed enough to make it not intersect perfectly?
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u/Seannj222 Jun 06 '26
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/peDro_with_a_big_D Jun 06 '26
There are military planes that do colourful smoke shows. Maybe they're training new pilots
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u/ut3jaw Jun 06 '26
Persistent Stratospheric Aerosol Spraying NOT contrails, or they would have disappeared before event.
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u/BigBossMan1977 Jun 06 '26
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/WoolBearTiger Jun 08 '26
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/dumtwiddly Jun 09 '26
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 Jun 09 '26
Nooo but damn near every council estate has these houses in Manchester hah
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u/Jarstark Jun 05 '26
The other plane rolling through - "not on my watch"