Conspiracy theories

[Panther Al]

Even better. I heard about him while reading an article about something else entirely. If it's the same guy, he's been taken seriously by some journalists for a paper on the coming shortage of lithium. Lithium is terribly useful in making batteries for cars and cellphones and laptops, and there's a lot of it in South America. Its also really easy to process, and using it in batteries doesn't consume it, like oil, so there really can't be a shortage.

All I can say after reading that is... Wow. Just wow. How in the he'll can anyone buy that Nuthouse theory Nukes, even if they was underground, would take down a lot more than the WTC towers at 150kt. This one beats cruise missiles launched from a piper cub by a country mile.

[Legbreaker]

And last but not least, nobody ever really landed on the moon. Its been a giant NASA conspiracy...

See post No 1....

[Legbreaker]

Knowing what I do about explosives, I'd have to say ANYTHING can be demolished with conventional charges, provided they're properly located and there's enough of them laid. Any building will fall if you take out the bottom floor, even a building as tall as the twin towers were.
It's not going to be a quick job setting them up, but it most certainly can be done.

Nuclear demolition charges in my mind exist simply to make the job a lot faster and probably messier too. There'd be no chance of a carefully planned implosion as we've all seen dozens of times on TV. They're only suitable for military purposes and there's absolutely NO WAY they can possibly have a civilian application - unless your aim is to create a glowing crater in the middle of a city...

[dragoon500ly]

See post No 1....

I'm bad, didn't have my three cups of coffee when I posted.

[Legbreaker]

I'm bad, didn't have my three cups of coffee when I posted.

You're excused, this time...

[headquarters]

Nazi ufo moon base preparing attack on the free world - brace yourselves

Well, I guess it had to slip out - but not only is there a nazi supersub base ( subs that travel 300 km/h -submerged) in the Antarctic, but the whole backside of the moon is actually a Nazi UFO base perparing for the EndKampf - the final fight to bring back the Reich etc etc

I attach the evidence to silence any discussion about the truth of the matter

http://www.beyondweird.com/ufos/branton_the_omega_file_part_2_nazi_bases_in_antarctica.html

and

for good measure

http://www.beyondweird.com/

as well as

http://www.ironsky.net/site/

that ought to do it.

[headquarters]

funny

I'm bad, didn't have my three cups of coffee when I posted.

I just noticed your signature. LOL.

[pmulcahy11b]

About the moon landings: A former NASA official recently said on the Smithsonian channel on a program about the subject, "Now that we haven't gone to the moon in so long, conspiracy theories are much more fun for many people than believing in the actual events," or something like that.

[pmulcahy11b]

I just noticed your sig line too, Dragoon. LOL.

We had one in the Army: Join the Army! Travel to far lands, meet exotic people -- and kill them.

[Matt Wiser]

Normally, I don't weigh in on conspiracy theories, but as a gent with a BA and MA in History, here's my two cents:

1) There isn't a major historical event that doesn't have a conspiracy theory attached. There were the "Merchants of Death" conspiracy theories in the '20s and '30s to explain the U.S. getting into WW I, and when that didn't go, many of them jumped on the Pearl Harbor conspiracy, along with the FDR-haters and die-hard isolationists, for example. JFK we know, and there's also conspiracy theories about the lunar landing, the Challenger shuttle accident (Jesse Helms claimed for a while the KGB sabotaged the Shuttle-on the fact that there wasn't a Soviet spy trawler off the Cape as usual), Y2K, and so on. If there weren't 9-11 conspiracy theories, I'd be surprised.

2) For those who peddle these theories, it can take the form of a religion. Any evidence that contradicts it, debunks it, or raises any doubt at all about their theory is dismissed, or even twisted to fit the conspiracy theory. The 9-11 theorists are prime examples, refusing to acknowledge holes in their theories, especially after Popular Mechanics published first an article, then a book, taking the key 9-11 claims and debunking them one by one.

3) A lot of it is denial: Pearl Harbor and 9-11 are also examples. Denial that (a) the Japanese of all people could strike over 3000 miles from home and catch the U.S. Navy napping-someone had to either know or have helped them. And denial that (b) 19 guys who had only box cutters were able to hijack four airliners and crash three of them into targets and no one was wise to them Someone had to have given them help. The myth of the all-powerful "government" comes into play here: an example of this is on 9-11: many conspiracy theorists ask "if we had fighters on alert, why didn't they take action" Well, when there were only 14 fighters on duty nationwide on 9-11 for air defense, unlike the Cold War days, when there were hundreds (which is the image many of these folks have), well, you get the idea.

4) Some of it is political: many Pearl Harbor conspiracy theorists were Roosevelt-haters (either writers or a few serving naval officers), while many of the 9-11 theorists refused to acknowledge that George W. Bush was a legitimate President. And it becomes another key to the religion....

Personally, the paper these "theories" are written on is only good in one place: the toilet. And the bandwith that their sites take up is wasted space. But that's just me.

[Webstral]

Here's one for the Southwest US: just Google "Chupacabra."

I've already earmarked that one for the most bloodthirsty Mexican raiders of Sonora Army. I know the Chupacabra urban legend only gets started around 1995, so having a unit take the name is a bit of a stretch. I like it, though, so I'm sticking with it.

[95th Rifleman]

Scientology

http://browse.deviantart.com/qh=&section=&q=scientology+chaos#/d3lckf2

nuff said

[dragoon500ly]

The new tag line is supposed to be a comment that a German General made during his post-WWII questioning. And the joy of it is, its all true!



One of the Pearl Harbor myths that always get me is the one that has the Japanese not doing the bombing, it was actually the RAF, operating from a near by island.

That WWII was all contrived by Stalin, part of his master plan to dominate the war.

That Hitler was smuggled out of Berlin by OSS agents at the end of the war, in return for intelligence on the Soviets.

That the USN Academy football team are genetically enhanced, SO THAT explains their winning streak!