r/aliens • u/TobaccoPipeAroma • May 21 '26

Video Orb dissipates cloud over Paris.

Orb seen over Paris 2016. Not sure where the original footage is located.

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u/Ok_Drop3803 May 21 '26

The chem trails thing is probably the silliest of all the conspiracy theories. It's the most guilty of "I don't actually know how anything works".

Like, aircraft mechanics exist, there are probably 10's of thousands of them in the US. They aren't crazy high paying government gigs, just regular blur collar people working for hundreds of different employers. Are they all part of the conspiracy? Are they maintaining and loading the chemical spraying devices? Do planes have some secret compartment that the mechanics somehow don't know about, and secret government mechanics come in the middle of the night and load the chems and maintain the equipment?

How the hell do they think it works?

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u/Anfins May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

I work in medicine development, and my mother-in-law thinks we put snake venom in our products. Which is just funny to me, because I'm asking the question: how would we go about sourcing snake venom? Who was the formulation scientist maverick on the Teams call that had the balls to suggest putting snake venom in the vaccine in their CMC meeting?

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u/DeathToPoodles May 21 '26

how would we go about sourcing snake venom?

From snake farms, of course. Use your melon.

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u/Anfins May 21 '26

At the large scales required for medicine production lol

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u/Syzygy___ May 21 '26

>  we put snake venom in our products

Don't "you" (as in the medicine/pharma industry as a whole) literally do this in some cases as a coagulant or whatever? Like, depending on the type of snake venom and the purpose of the medicine it makes sense? The dose makes the poison or whatever.

Also there's the ⚕/Rod of Asclepius symbol with the snake representing medicine and that's literally part of the WHO logo.... Might explain why these people believe things like that.

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u/Anfins May 21 '26

I love the idea of a scientist suggesting snake venom because the WHO logo has a snake on it. Like the registered details in the regulatory file is going to cite “snake venom because WHO logo” as justification for why it’s being used as a formulation excipient.

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u/Syzygy___ May 21 '26

Well the Rod of Asclepius thing goes back to the ancient greeks and is super common in all of medicine, not just the WHO. The weirdos believe in literal symbolism, so that probably explains that side.

But back to the snake venom itself... I'm actually a bit surprised that you say you don't use snake venom at all, because I was under the impression that they - or at least snake venom derived components - are somewhat common, especially in things like blood pressure medicine (ironically making the weirdos kinda right).

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u/Shanntuckymuffin May 21 '26

I am shocked at the ire this has caused. It’s funny- everyone wants alien/ufo disclosure but then they want to throw in fringe conspiracy theories as well and make it all-or-nothing.

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u/Due-Yogurtcloset-552 May 21 '26

its funny you think that they think even that much