i seen him last night on the teleFloggo said:Tupac is alive.
I'm not sure... this is true for the classics such as Area 51 with it's hundreds of scientists or the Illuminati with figures in every country, but think about the biggest conspiracy in the post-internet era: 9/11. How many people would actually have had to be conspiring for this? I'm not saying I think this is true, but say an oil barron (or.. whatever, I don't really know the conspiracy) decided it would be best for everyone if America went to war with Afghanistahn and Iraq; a small bribe to a security guard and some diverted funds to a terrorist cell could well have done the job. Possibly some smuggling or some such too, but my point is that most of this is logistics "move package A to point B," not people specificaly acting to blow up American infrastructure. From what I do know about 9/11 America's defence forces were woefully unprepared for any such attack so there was no need for traitors at every level of govornment as some poeople claim, hell even a bribed guard who let the metal through the airport gate wouldn't have known what it was for until the first explosion and you can be sure they'd keep quiet about it afterwards.Agayek said:OT: I don't think there are any big conspiracies out there. Think about it for a minute. A successful, unknown conspiracy in the internet age means three things need to happen: 1) Everyone needs to be perfect at what they do, 2) Everyone needs to believe in the cause, and 3) No one can be corrupt.
If any of those 3 are not met, someone in the media would find out about it and the whole world would know about it. It's simply not possible for a large-scale conspiracy to operate in the modern world.
Actually we've been working on creating organs for a while, and can literally print kidneys (though they're not good enough to use yet).IamLEAM1983 said:This is less a conspiracy theory and more a set of personal beliefs, though. I'm also fairly certain our current anti-cloning ethics won't hold water forever. With the wealthy always being willing to pay to keep living, cheap and affordable organs will be needed. If China can bring sheep embryos near term in artificial tanks, there isn't much stopping us from growing independent organs in protein vats.
Well yea, but that's kinda beside the point. It's not a conspiracy theory that 9/11 happened. They pulled it off with a fairly standard operation that the US simply wasn't prepared for, if for no other reason than no one had ever done it before.Scabadus said:I'm not sure... this is true for the classics such as Area 51 with it's hundreds of scientists or the Illuminati with figures in every country, but think about the biggest conspiracy in the post-internet era: 9/11. How many people would actually have had to be conspiring for this? I'm not saying I think this is true, but say an oil barron (or.. whatever, I don't really know the conspiracy) decided it would be best for everyone if America went to war with Afghanistahn and Iraq; a small bribe to a security guard and some diverted funds to a terrorist cell could well have done the job. Possibly some smuggling or some such too, but my point is that most of this is logistics "move package A to point B," not people specificaly acting to blow up American infrastructure. From what I do know about 9/11 America's defence forces were woefully unprepared for any such attack so there was no need for traitors at every level of govornment as some poeople claim, hell even a bribed guard who let the metal through the airport gate wouldn't have known what it was for until the first explosion and you can be sure they'd keep quiet about it afterwards.
Well, your friend is TECHNICALLY right. There ARE Chem-trails, but they're probably not as dark and evil and he's making them out to be.Agayek said:I think I can one-up you on this one. I heard a conspiracy theory from one of my co-workers a couple of months ago about how most con-trails (the trails of steam generated by a plane's exhaust) are actually "chem trails" that the government is using to spread mercury, arsenic and other poisons throughout the atmosphere. Not in sufficient quantities to kill everyone, but as a means to keep people too busy trying to breath to revolt.Hunter65416 said:The stupidest one I can think of is the 'Paul is dead' one about the beatles covering up pauls death to save the public grief
It's pretty ridiculous.
Wow, that's awesome. Now all we're missing is megalopolises, cyberspace decks, Simstim units and pepperbox flechette pistols.Grey Walker said:Actually we've been working on creating organs for a while, and can literally print kidneys (though they're not good enough to use yet).IamLEAM1983 said:This is less a conspiracy theory and more a set of personal beliefs, though. I'm also fairly certain our current anti-cloning ethics won't hold water forever. With the wealthy always being willing to pay to keep living, cheap and affordable organs will be needed. If China can bring sheep embryos near term in artificial tanks, there isn't much stopping us from growing independent organs in protein vats.
http://blog.ted.com/2011/03/07/printing-a-human-kidney-anthony-atala-on-ted-com/
That's not a conspiracy theory (if it was God fucked up big time by making people write it down and making billions read it), that's just illogical.Hero in a half shell said:On a serious note, I don't believe any big conspiricies like 9/11, Bigfoot, Reptile people, etc. But I am a creationist, so there's that. (The universe was created 6-10,000 years ago, but created as an old universe with billions of years of development already written into it.)