Conspiracy Theories

Aliens exist...they just think we're too stupid to hang out with.  UFO sightings are their idea of fun.

Here's one for ya:

If you start at the HAARP array, NW of Anchorage, AK, and draw a great circle line to Dayton, OH and check the distance, then draw a great circle line to El Paso and check the distance, the two numbers are within about 60 miles.  Weird, huh?

Just Google Illuminati and the dollar bill, so much fun to be had.

SkinnyG said:

There is a Hollow Earth theory which is rather fascinating.

There is a Concave Hollow Earth theory that the whole earth is inside-out, and we are on the inside of a sphere.

But these aren't really conspiracies.

I quite like the Flying Spaghetti Monster for maximum plausible weird.

1)  The conspiracies related to those theories is that the govt/science/etc. are covering up the 'fact' that the ear this hollow or concave or whatever.

2)  FSM is next-level trolling and its berkeleying awesome.

3)  Nobody has mentioned chemtrails yet??

Almost forgot one: the Tunguska event: https://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm

Tesla as an absolute genius who had been working on wireless power transmission. I think he pulled it off but missed the destination tower, zapping the tundra instead.

the Mandela effect stuff is kinda a fun one to think on

drsmooth said:

There is no such thing as nothing. Nothing is something, therefore nothing doesnt exist. If this statement isn't true tell me what nothing is.

The same way there is no such thing as "cold," only a lack of "heat."

GameboyRMH said:

Gotta give props to the Flat Earth nutjobs, you need a spaceship to disprove them. Or maybe a ring laser gyroscope that costs $$$$$...they tried that and decided that their costly high-end instrument had a nasty drift (that exactly matched mainstream spheroidal-earth theory). Maybe 2 of those gyroscopes in different orientations? What are the odds that they'd have the same drift?

Careful there, the space-ship might help prove them right if you have read Larry Niven's Ringworld series. A Flat world that works

As for the future of this thread, I am fully prepared with my PPG

And if worse comes to worse, I got my ticket out of here!

Ach! Just saw my typo in the thread title. Could one of you fine moderators change that for me? Pretty sure it should be "Theories" Thanks.

drsmooth said:

There is no such thing as nothing. Nothing is something, therefore nothing doesnt exist. If this statement isn't true tell me what nothing is.

Simple. Nothing is the absence of anything. And since Anything can exist, so can Nothing. 

What amuses me most about govt conspiracy theories is they are largely based on a far more competent and coordinated government organization than the one I know. The govt that often has trouble adding 2 + 2 and getting 4.

Occam's razor and Hanlon's razor wreck basically every conspiracy theory.

Ian F said:

drsmooth said:

There is no such thing as nothing. Nothing is something, therefore nothing doesnt exist. If this statement isn't true tell me what nothing is.

Simple. Nothing is the absence of anything. And since Anything can exist, so can Nothing. 

What amuses me most about govt conspiracy theories is they are largely based on a far more competent and coordinated government organization than the one I know. The govt that often has trouble adding 2 + 2 and getting 4.

Or do that purposefully present that view to us plebs, so that deeper conspiratorial collusion doesn't seem possible? 

I remember seeing one that stated:

Japan is using a Russian built weather machine to cause storms in the USA and ruin their economy.

Why would Japan use a Russian built -anything-?

The Russian weather machine would be the size of my house and the Japanese weather machine would be the size of an I-phone.

barefootskater said:

Ach! Just saw my typo in the thread title. Could one of you fine moderators change that for me? Pretty sure it should be "Theories" Thanks.

Gladly--that was bugging me, but didn't want to overstep ;)

And good job actually having fun on the internet, everyone. This keeps up and we'll all get ice cream afterwards.

Margie

If you've seen the movie "Bubba Ho-Tep"

Elivs is living in a rest home in the South.

He got tired of the fortune and fame and decided to trade places with the best Elvis impersonator in the business. The impersonator is actually the one who died in 1977.

JFK is also there. The cover-up job was so well done, they dyed him black.

Starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK.

In reply to z31maniac :

Have spent time working with our govt?  

But the real problem is these theories require such a massive number of people being able to keep a secret.  Humans just aren't wired to keep secrets that well. 

Oh, let's also not forget Paul McCartney is dead. Elvis, Tupac, and Biggie are all still alive. 

"Tupac" has released more work posthumously, than he did alive. 

Marjorie Suddard said:

And good job actually having fun on the internet, everyone. This keeps up and we'll all get ice cream afterwards.

Margie

HAve you heard of the McDonalds ice cream conspiracy?

Ian F said:

But the real problem is these theories require such a massive number of people being able to keep a secret.  Humans just aren't wired to keep secrets that well. 

 

Which is why we can read about them online! Obviously some folks on the inside felt the need to leak some of this perception-altering information. It's all true man!

Can we talk conspiracy theories that were proven to be fact?  The problem is so many of them come from the government that I fear floundering up a fun thread.

Adrian_Thompson said:

Can we talk conspiracy theories that were proven to be fact?  The problem is so many of them come from the government that I fear floundering up a fun thread.

Operation Northwoods

Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment

CIA MKUltra

barefootskater said:

Ian F said:

But the real problem is these theories require such a massive number of people being able to keep a secret.  Humans just aren't wired to keep secrets that well. 

 

Which is why we can read about them online! Obviously some folks on the inside felt the need to leak some of this perception-altering information. It's all true man!

I need evidence. Nothing online can be trusted as fact. 

What is considered "true" is not relavent. 

NOHOME said:

Careful there, the space-ship might help prove them right if you have read Larry Niven's Ringworld series. A Flat world that works

Except the Ringworld isn't flat... it's a channel shape of a depth a little taller than Earth's atmosphere, formed into a ring with the radius of Earth's orbit.

In reply to Duke :

Ringworld, schmingworld... I prefer Discworld.

In reply to Ian F :

It makes more sense than a lot of reality.