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United plans to boost its in-flight entertainment options with free satellite Wi-Fi service from SpaceX’s Starlink. In an announcement, the airline said its fleet of mainline and regional aircraft, more than 1,000 planes, will receive the Wi-Fi service starting sometime next year after it begins testing in early 2025.

The company said it will deliver comparable Wi-Fi to what customers get on the ground, even at 35,000 feet, to enable services including TV streaming, gaming and social media on seatback screens as well as personal devices for fliers. The rollout will happen over several years and will make in-flight internet accessible in places “previously unreachable by traditional cell or Wi-Fi signals” such as oceans and polar regions, United said in its release. 

The service, United…

An image being widely shared on Facebook claims to show how to identify a “chemtrail” as compared to a “contrail” left in the sky by an aeroplane.

The post, one example of which has been shared more than 6,300 times, includes side-by-side images of two planes in the sky with differing lengths of white trails behind them.

Text within the photo identifies the longer trail as a “chemtrail”, adding the “trail extends for miles” and “lasts for hours”. While a “contrail” in the image is described as where the “trail extends for feet lasts for seconds”.

But both of the images show contrails, or condensation trails, left by aircraft.

We’ve written a number of times about conspiracy theories around ‘chemtrails’, which claim that white lines in…