Why, God, why do you believe that? Loopy conspiracy theories

Wait you actually believe the Moon Landing and 9/11 conspiracy theories?

...That really shouldn't surprise me.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: 2: Money and sawn-through joints and stuff and how buildings don't collapse like that and jet fuel doesn't burn that hot and passenger planes are not heavy or fast enough to take down a building. Entire apartment blocks can be on fire but the shell still stands.

And just how would one saw through the joints of a skyscraper (let alone plant nearly enough explosives to finish the job) without ANY of the tens of thousands of workers in the towers noticing?

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Freezer wrote:: Moon Landings were a hoax: Why would the Russians play along?

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: 1: Money

Please, please tell me that this was a mistake. Otherwise, I will be forced to verbally destroy you for this shitheadery.

Lysander wrote:

Freezer wrote:: Moon Landings were a hoax: Why would the Russians play along?

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: 1: Money

Please, please tell me that this was a mistake. Otherwise, I will be forced to verbally destroy you for this shitheadery.

I would simply ask how much money would be worth more to the USSR than publicly embarrassing America?

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Freezer wrote:: I would simply ask how much money would be worth more to the USSR than publicly embarrassing America?

The Russians sunk the equivalent of trillions in today's cash into their moon shot. Vlad Komarov burned to death in the upper atmosphere. An N1 rocket exploded with nearly the full force of the Hiroshima bomb on their launch pad, setting off alarms in Cheyenne Mountain during one of the most tense eras in the Cold War.

Not even the entire GDP of the United States would have convinced the Russians to nuke themselves to cover up a plot by their worst enemies - who the USSR were on the verge of waging APOCALYPTIC WAR on - to make them the laughing stock of the entire world.

That idea is so harebrained and illogical that it could only have sprung from the deepest, darkest pits of human stupidity.

Chaltab wrote:: Wait you actually believe the Moon Landing and 9/11 conspiracy theories?

...That really shouldn't surprise me.

The flag moved, it's obviously a hoax! Inertia is a lie. :whisper:

I don't know about the moon landings. But NASA recently turning out to have lost the original footage from the moon - they TAPED OVER A HUGE STEP IN SCIENTIFIC HISTORY DAMMIT - is not going to do them any favours with conspiracy theorists.

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Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: NASA recently turning out to have lost the original footage from the moon - they TAPED OVER A HUGE STEP IN SCIENTIFIC HISTORY DAMMIT - is not going to do them any favours with conspiracy theorists.

Fuck the conspiracy theorists. Every moon hoaxer I've ever come across is a gibbering, paranoid, self-serving, whiny, egotistical shitheel who doesn't have the slightest goddamn clue about anything, which doesn't stop them from thinking that they know everything.

It's not like something as insignificant as seeing it with their own eyes would change their minds, anyway. See also: 9/11 Truthers. "That wasn't a plane, it was a missile!"

Hey, I didn't say what I believed (when I land on the moon, I'll decide for myself, thanks) but losing the original footage is really not doing NASA any favours.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: Hey, I didn't say what I believed (when I land on the moon, I'll decide for myself, thanks) but losing the original footage is really not doing NASA any favours.

That's not "Conspiracy", that's "Everyone was doing it." Videotape was hella expensive in those days. Reusing tapes saved companies a ton of money. It's the reason that so much of TVs early days is pretty much gone for good. If you wanted to record it prosperity, you took photos or filmed it.

There's also the reasoning tht they didn't need to hang on to the tapes because the entire fucking world saw it!

If you want to cling to the "original footage is gone" thing, you might as well say CBS and NBC were conspiring to hide the existane of the Dumont Network.

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That's how they lost the original Doctor Who episodes.

*insert conspiracy theory about how there were no doctors before the 9th Doctor ---footage was faked, faaaaaaked!*

Delcat wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:: In addition, I assassinated JFK...

Then who the hell did I shoot? Oh well, I still got paid. Easiest sawbuck I ever made in my life.

You shot the Texas governor. I don't remember his name but nobody cares. THAT'S how the "magic bullet" struck both Kennedy and Governor Dude, there WAS another shooter.

Delly, in the grassy knoll.

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:

Freezer wrote:: It seems to me that
for every major conspiracy theory - barring those in which we'll
probably never know the full facts (see: the deaths of JFK, MLK,
Marilyn Monroe¹) - has one giant whole in it which the adherents to
said theories refuse to address.

Moon Landings were a hoax: Why would the Russians play along?
The Twin Towers were brought down by explosives:
Because things like engineered fail safes and structual failure points
don't exist. But explosives that can take down a building but not show
signs of the explosions do.
Barak Obama is not a Natural Born Citizen:
We'll ignore the fact that every high-ranking Republican in a position
to make use of this theory has ignored it or declared it a non-starter.

And there's probably many many more.

1)The Mob had him killed (Ruby was their clean-up man), James Earl Ray was a patsy, and she was murdered.

1: Money
2:
Money and sawn-through joints and stuff and how buildings don't
collapse like that and jet fuel doesn't burn that hot and passenger
planes are not heavy or fast enough to take down a building. Entire
apartment blocks can be on fire but the shell still stands.
3: I don't believe this one.

I have a mental image of those Kremlin things from the Loony Toons going to town on a steel girder with a handsaw while Bugs Bunny tries to to stop them but only fails in hilarious fashion.

I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union didn't really care about money...

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:: Delly, in the grassy knoll.

Wait, I remember now--the grassy knoll was standing room only, so I said "Fuck it" and went for gelato.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:: I have a mental image of those Kremlin things from the Loony Toons going to town on a steel girder with a handsaw while Bugs Bunny tries to to stop them but only fails in hilarious fashion.

Freudian conspiracy slip, there, Russkie?

Also, give back Kitbug's avatar. Cute caterpillars are for cute posters, not gleeful douchebags.

Dr. Professor Science wrote:: I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union didn't really care about money...

I'm pretty sure they don't either, since they don't exist anymore.

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Maximilia wrote:

Dr. Professor Science wrote:: I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union didn't really care about money...

I'm pretty sure they don't either, since they don't exist anymore.

...did you just correct her for a mistake she didn't make?

Maximilia wrote:

Dr. Professor Science wrote:: I'm pretty sure the Soviet Union didn't really care about money...

I'm pretty sure they don't either, since they don't exist anymore.

That's what they want you to think!

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Max is trying to Burn somebody, something she little experience of.

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The Illuminati and their "New World Order."

People actually believe it. I shouldn't be shocked, but really...

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: Max is trying to Burn somebody, something she little experience of.

No, it's just one of my pet peeves: people calling Russia and the other countries there now the "Soviet Union".

Maximilia wrote:

Harley Quinn hyenaholic wrote:: Max is trying to Burn somebody, something she little experience of.

No, it's just one of my pet peeves: people calling Russia and the other countries there now the "Soviet Union".

:law:
Hence the use of the past tense Maxi dear. During the period of time being referred to the Soviet Union did exist and naming it so is correct. Unless you have some secret information that the Soviet Union disbanded before the space race and just didn't tell anybody.

Mikey Go WOOGA wrote:

Delcat wrote:

Lady Anne wrote:: In addition, I assassinated JFK...

Then who the hell did I shoot? Oh well, I still got paid. Easiest sawbuck I ever made in my life.

You shot the Texas governor. I don't remember his name but nobody cares. THAT'S how the "magic bullet" struck both Kennedy and Governor Dude, there WAS another shooter.

The current Texas governor?

Delcat shot the deputy, but he didn't shoot the Sherriff.

Then who was that nice guy on the grassy knoll who got me to clean his rifle scope and paid me well for doing so?

*whistles innocently*

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