Conspiracy Theories

What is it that captures the imagination of people with these things?

One very popular site is http://www.abovetopsecret.com which I find very entertaining but look through the articles and threads you will notice that all of their evidence is circumstantial, based on hearsay at best and even completely wrong but sounds really convincing.

For instance last night on facebook a friend was talking about the 9/11 attacks and when one of the aircraft disappeared off radar that it wasn’t passed over to the defence department and then fighters getting launched to intercept which of course is true but instead of looking at what actually happened its immediately confirmed their preconceived notion that this was a false flag attack.

Looking at what happened shows something different. Whenever looking at the 9/11 attacks we should always remember that nothing like it has ever happened before but plenty of crashes, technical problems so probably first thoughts were a problem with the aircraft and then maybe a hijacking.

Firstly the radar used in civil aviation doesn’t work like they think.  Modern aircraft use a transponder and it’s this that the radar tracks not the aircraft itself. Of course they have communications with ground as well but there could be all sorts of reasons that there was a delay in passing the info onto the defence department while they were trying to figure out what was going on.  Has the plane crashed? Is it just the transponder out? Etc

Now Boston to New York is only around 190 miles so in flying time that’s not very long certainly a lot less than an hour so I think then that I am not sure they could believe what was going to happen (wouldn’t have myself I suspect) that certainly would have taken plenty of time.

Secondly, scrambling fighters to intercept.  I think someone has been watching too many Second World War movies where they run out of dispersal and jump into their spitfires and off they go.   A modern fast jet fighter such as an F15 is a much more complex machine it needs time to get going.  Even if arguably they had been alerted straight away it would still have taken too long.

What’s forgotten is that the US wasn’t in cold war mode with alert birds and crew ready to go with a moments notice fully armed. Since then of course they would have alert birds all ready but even so arguable they would get there in time even now (during the London Olympics they moved a squadron of  RAF Typhoons down to RAF Northolt in West London from their base further north, you just do not normally base military aircraft in the middle of a city).

Now I have a very poor opinion of those in charge but a deliberate attack on their own citizens so they can invade another country I just cannot buy since when did they need an excuse like that before?  Can always make out it’s a hunt for WMDs.

The moon landing hoax.  

I am really staggered on this one.

Not one NASA staff member on the project has ever come out and said that it was a hoax and in fact are very indignant should it be suggested. We are talking about 1000s of people here.

The craft themselves were tracked by different stations at all times.  There is a wonderful Aussie movie called The Dish which is the true story of the Aussie radio telescope that tracked Apollo 13 and the TV signal of Neil Armstrong taking that famous first step actually come through that radio telescope (of course they have dramatised it and made it the very quirky type humour that the Aussies do well) but in truth these Scientists at those tracking stations would have noticed if the signal was coming from elsewhere. These radio telescopes are really precise and are listening into stars across the universe, a spacecraft a few thousand miles isn’t that difficult.

From what I can see of these moon hoax believers is that the reason they are not convinced is that the photos are too good and the flag looks like its waving in wind (it was actually designed to look like that and the when it was touched the lack of friction would keep it moving for quite a long time in a near vacuum) and other bizarre claims.

RIP Neil Armstrong your name will be remembered as long as the Human race exists I hope.

Area 51

Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, Groom Lake all names for this “top secret” air force base that the  whole world has heard of.   But aliens? Come on it’s simply a secure research base for the US Air force which funnily enough they don’t like people approaching or knowing what they are up to there as it’s supposed to be like that, it’s a testing centre for advanced aircraft and weapons.

More info and interesting speculation on the projects there now and in the past and generally what else is going on at Edwards AFB at http://dreamlandresort.com and its UFO free.

No doubt there are conspiracies out there in the world and always have been when a few people meet up and discuss things in private.

It would be naïve to think that cover ups do not happen and as I am writing this the truth about the Hillsborough disaster has been revealed that the police covered up their ineptitude by trying to blame the fans (no surprise to us who had stood on the Leppings lane terrace a few times, it was an accident waiting to happen) and note that its taken time but the truth has come out.

The scale of these so called theories are huge though, it’s just not possible without someone blabbing and having incontrovertible proof of what they say which never seems to turn up.

Is it more interesting to believe a sensational multi person conspiracy or the truth that tends to be pretty mundane or has there been a change in that traditional religion for a lot has taken a back seat so they feel need to substitute their beliefs with “something” as the feel they are missing something without knowing what?  

 Andy