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EARTHDATE: February 9, 2014

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REAL LIFE NEWS: CONSPIRACY THEORISTS CLAIM THE SNOW WAS FAKE

by Hazed

The weather’s been a bit strange recently, hasn’t it? Here in England we’ve been having deluges of rainfall that have flooded large parts of the country, leaving some villages under water. There’s more storms expected this weekend, too. In the US, it’s been the cold and snow causing problems, with some southern states seeing their first snowfalls for, well, ever.

Such an unusual occurrence has brought out the conspiracy theorists, who as well as believing we never landed on the moon, that the twin towers were not brought down by planes or that JFK was assassinated by Elvis, have now come up with an explanation for the snowstorms.

They think it wasn’t real snow. It was a fake, which was deposited by chemtrails. Yes, a government conspiracy to… to… well, nobody is quite sure why the government would want to blanket Atlanta with snow but they must have some sinister reason.

Or it was nanobots, or even some psychoactive substance.

But wait, there’s proof. No, really! There’s all these videos on the web that show this snow not melting when it’s burned with a lighter, and strange black char marks appearing. So it must be some weird chemical stuff, and not just frozen water, surely it must.

Well, no. The videos are just showing exactly what you would expect to happen when you take a lighter to a boulder of snow, as the video at the source link below shows. You see, when snow melts, any water released is absorbed by the rest of the loosely packed snow. The black marks are simply residue from the lighter fluid.

Simple. So calm down.

Source: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/why-fake-snow-doesnt-melt-because-its-real

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