Coolest Conspiracy Theory

[1337m4n]

Has any conspiracy theory ever made you think "You know, this is probably a load of bull, but if it were true, it'd be freaking awesome!"?

I can say that about several CTs. Which ones do you find the coolest?

(And "cool" doesn't necessarily mean "good", for instance, if Tyrannosaurus Rex still existed and was eating people whole as we speak, that wouldn't be "good" per se, but it'd still be very cool)



For me, I'm torn between the existence of the NWO and the existence of aliens at Area 51. It's hard to say what's cooler between a secret evil organization controlling world affairs, and space aliens.

[cmcaulif]

I once debated a CT on another forum who was into the whole space beams bit, he was constantly insisting that there were technologies and hidden operations going on that no one knew about(except him), such as hovercraft that launch from Antarctica and land on mining colonies in the moon an hour later.

I suppose that kind of technology and the ability to hide it would be pretty awesome.

[leftysergeant]

Okay, Area 51 is actually begining to seem cool.

[jsiv]

I once debated a CT on another forum who was into the whole space beams bit, he was constantly insisting that there were technologies and hidden operations going on that no one knew about(except him), such as hovercraft that launch from Antarctica and land on mining colonies in the moon an hour later.

I suppose that kind of technology and the ability to hide it would be pretty awesome.


It's actually up north, but other than that, you've got it about right.

[dudalb]

The Aliens at Area 51 is the CT I would like most to be true...but it's total BS.

[Undesired Walrus]

Roswell, and the mixed-race couple who got abducted by the first Grays.

Fantastic stories.

[Drudgewire]

The limo driver shot Kennedy. I mean... damn.

RIP Bill Cooper, you world-class kook. http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/patriot.gif

[dudalb]

The limo driver shot Kennedy. I mean... damn.

RIP Bill Cooper, you world-class kook. http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/patriot.gif

Bill Cooper and his crazy world view is missed.
It's too bad he REALLY went over the edge and died in a shoot out with local Sheriff;s deputies after he threatened a local man with a gun.
BTW I still see the CT theory of Cooper's death is still up on Wikipedia,which does not add to it already questionable reputation on controversial topics.

[T.A.M.]

I think it would be cool if all of us JREFers really were Government Shills....that would be a cool CT if true.

TAM:)

[DGM]

How about the one where we all work for the NWO and get paid for this? The trips and mischief would be cool.

[TriskettheKid]

Being Jewish, I've always thought the coolest one involved the Jews running the world.

I've always imagined what I would be given to rule over......

[Cl1mh4224rd]

I always thought the Philadelphia Experiment would've been pretty neat.

[TheRedWorm]

Being Jewish, I've always thought the coolest one involved the Jews running the world.

I've always imagined what I would be given to rule over......


Delaware

[TriskettheKid]

Delaware

I imagine I'd be pretty powerful, then. Being in control of pretty much all the credit card companies in the US would give me loads of power.

And I'd have tax-free shopping.

Aside from the state itself, not a terrible deal.

[TheRedWorm]

Hey, I never said the stuff inside Delaware, I said Delaware. We at the NWO only manage land, we leave the banks and financing to the Illuminati. :D

[OldTigerCub]

How about the one where we all work for the NWO and get paid for this? The trips and mischief would be cool.

I'll second that one...I did already buy an NWO Kitty shirt after all. It would be nice to get a paycheck for wearing it.:D

[alexg]

It would be awesome if 911 really was a false flag, if and only if, it also turned out that Al Qaida didn't exist.

[defaultdotxbe]

philidelphia experiment (thanks Cl1m for reminding me :) )

some crazy hollow universe thing i heard about the universe being a hollow sphere, where the surface of the earth is the inner surface and the rest of the universe is inside, and NASA cant tell because "real" physics are all weird in such a way that our current laws of physics work for what we use them for (sortof like how geocentricism was alright until we could measure planetary movement accurately enough to realize the predictions from a geocentric model werent working out)

not sure if you can call that a conspiracy though

but the winner has to be ancient astronauts (if you can even call that a conspiracy either)

[tacodaemon]

I've always kind of liked Gary Mack, Jack White and Gordon Arnold's fanciful interpretations of Polaroid-photo grain and motion blur (http://www.jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/badgeman_3.htm) as extra people participating in the JFK assassination (you know, "Badge Man" and all that). It put me in mind of the photographic crime mystery stuff from Blow-Up or the audio analysis stuff in The Conversation, two flicks I always liked.

[Retrograde]

:)The limo driver shot Kennedy. I mean... damn.
I've always liked the theory that one of the Secret Service guards accidentally shot Kennedy: it explains all the hurry to get the investigation out of Dallas and under federal control, the autopsy irregularities, etc. Too bad it's not actually true!

I was exposed to Lincoln assassination conspiracies at an impressionable age, and I still think Stanton and his War Department were behind the whole thing: Lincoln goes to the theater without a bodyguard, the so-called guard just happens to leave his post at a critical time, Booth just happens to leave town on the one unguarded road heading south, he and his companion mysteriously disappear for over a week, there are questions about whether the body returned to Washington is really his...makes JFK look like an open and shut case!

[tacodaemon]

but the winner has to be ancient astronauts (if you can even call that a conspiracy either)


Oh yeah, I love ancient astronauts too. And in particular, as a DC local, I'm a fan of this guy's explanation (http://www.startinglinks.net/cydoniaufo/WASHINGTON%20DISTRICT%20OF%20CYDONIA/) of the layout of DC and surrounding areas as being both (a) hidden outlines of Masonic symbols and (b) an intentional reproduction of the Martian surface features surrounding the Face On Mars. (Seriously, go through that page to be mind-boggled by the sheer imagination of it all -- especially fun if you know your way around DC and are familiar with the landmarks he makes a big deal about.)

[Furi]

Religion, Not really a CT (in my opinion it is though)

Would espescially like it if EVERYONE was right, forget Pirates v Ninja, how about Odin v Zeus, or Loki v Lucifer. Monotheism vs the parthenon,
Fire up the BBQ let the missus cook as we need more burnt offerings

[NikZeta302]

All the worlds leaders being Lizard-men space aliens.

[Retrograde]

And in particular, as a DC local, I'm a fan of this guy's explanation (http://www.startinglinks.net/cydoniaufo/WASHINGTON%20DISTRICT%20OF%20CYDONIA/) of the layout of DC and surrounding areas as being both (a) hidden outlines of Masonic symbols and (b) an intentional reproduction of the Martian surface features surrounding the Face On Mars. (Seriously, go through that page to be mind-boggled by the sheer imagination of it all -- especially fun if you know your way around DC and are familiar with the landmarks he makes a big deal about.)

I always thought there was something odd about that place. Buffalo, NY was originally laid out in a similar fashion (modern city "planners" have unfortunately destroyed some of the original downtown patterns) by the brother of one of L'Enfant's assistants. I once met someone who wanted to explain to me how this represented the mystical ley lines of the region. The planner of Buffalo, Joseph Ellicott, was eventually committed to an insane asylum in New York City and took his own life. Coincidence? I think so.

[defaultdotxbe]

Monotheism vs the parthenon
been there, done that

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/defaultdotxbe/Passion_Unloaded.jpg

[CHF]

The coolest conspiracy I've head is the one that says the 9/11 truth movement is a government-run operation designed to distract attention away from Iraq.

It'd be cool to think that the government could competently impersonate a collection of kooks for so long, complete with numerous web sites, hilarious personalities, pathetically bad theories and tons of infighting.

Plus it could mean that I'm also part of the operation by engaging the other government spooks in debate designed to convince everyone that it's all real.

But alas, those are real kooks in those black t-shirts and I still haven't been hired for a top-secret operation.

Seriously though, alien bodies and a UFO at Area 51 would be pretty cool.

[Unfit4Command]

I think it would be cool if all of us JREFers really were Government Shills....that would be a cool CT if true.

TAM:)

But it is true:eye-poppi

[GreNME]

been there, done that

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v190/defaultdotxbe/Passion_Unloaded.jpg

Holy friggin frijole that has to be the worst thing I've seen in a very long time. did Rob Liefield turn into a Holy Roller?

My favorite CT to come true would be the Area 51 / Roswell ones, where we have all this technology we're reverse engineering.

Unfortunately, I've known people who have worked for military engineering operations (even supar sekrit ones), and either they deserve Oscars for Best Acting or most of the stuff that goes on is administrative follow-up for ideas that range from weird to awesome. I recall one project a buddy was working on where they were working out the physics behind firing a ________~SIGNAL BROKEN~________

[hellaeon]

The star wars beams.

I mean, hell! Imagine being trained by the spirit of yoda and Darth Vader to be a jedi and scoring yourself a millenium falcon off han! Actually..if the deathstar existed yoda may not be dead yet!

[Furi]

The star wars beams.

I mean, hell! Imagine being trained by the spirit of yoda and Darth Vader to be a jedi and scoring yourself a millenium falcon off han! Actually..if the deathstar existed yoda may not be dead yet!

Proof that the Moon landings were faked!!1!eleventy!

that's no moon..

[stilicho]

I ran into a blog where one contributor claimed to have been once a 17 year old subcontractor for Jews who plotted to contaminate North American cities with wall-to-wall carpetting. One quote I remember: "...worse than smoking..."

The way it works is that Jews convinced hoi polloi to give up on hardwood floors some time in the Sixties or Seventies and carpet their houses with poisonous wall-to-wall carpets and to "pocket the difference".

Maybe it's just me, but I thought the idea of world domination through interior decorating and employing minors as subcontractors to do it was pretty cool.

[lionking]

All the worlds leaders being Lizard-men space aliens.
I was going to put this one in, but I'm not sure it is a CT. Crazy as hell and super cool if true, but not really CT. I'd vote for space beams.
BTW welcome Nik.

[Firestone]

The Denver International Airport CT (http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html) is cool.

http://i20.tinypic.com/zjzf2g.jpg

There is the Deep Underground Military Base underneath Denver International Airport, which is over 22 miles in diameter and goes down over 8 levels. It’s no coincidence that the CIA is relocating the headquarters of its domestic division, which is responsible for operations in the United States, from the CIA’s Langley headquarters to Denver.

Constructed in 1995, the government and politicians were hell bent on building this airport in spite of it ending up vastly overbudget. Charges of corruption, constant construction company changes, and mass firings of teams once they had built a section of their work was reported so that no “one” group had any idea what the blueprint of the airport was.

Not only did locals not want this airport built nor was it needed, but everything was done to make sure it was built despite that. Masonic symbols and bizarre artwork of dead babies, burning cities and women in coffins comprise an extensive mural as well as a time capsule - none of which is featured in the airport’s web site section detailing the unique artwork throughout the building.

DIA serves as a cover for the vast underground facilities that were built there. There are reports of electronic/magnetic vibrations which make some people sick and cause headaches in others.

There are acres of fenced-in areas which have barbed wire pointing into the area as if to keep things in, and small concrete stacks that resemble mini-cooling towers rise out of the acres of nowhere to apparently vent underground levels.

The underground facility is 88.3 square mile deep. Basically this Underground Base is 8 cities on top of each other!

The holding capacity of such leviathanic bases is huge. These city-sized bases can hold millions and millions of people, whether they are mind controlled, enslaved NWO World Army Soldiers or innocent and enslaved surface dwellers from the towns and cities of America and Canada.

Source (http://salonesoterica.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/deep-underground-military-bases-in-america/)

[DarkMagician]

The NHK is generating people with acute social withdrawl, using MIB-esque agents and women to break hearts or otherwise set up unrealistic expectations, to make up an army and... do somethingorother.

[Plantfoam]

In no particular order:

1. Underground Reptilian civilization
2. Reptilian world leaders
3. Government-Alien technology trading
4. Secret 18-lane NAFTA highway that stretches from Monterey to Nunavut.

[BenBurch]

Abandoned Nazi bases on the moon.

[timhau]

Heh. That Denver Airport CT is cool.

Masonic symbols and bizarre artwork of dead babies, burning cities and women in coffins comprise an extensive mural as well as a time capsule - none of which is featured in the airport’s web site section detailing the unique artwork throughout the building.

What is it with the NWO anyway? Why do they have to sprinkle the airport with clues and put those symbols everywhere?


The underground facility is 88.3 square mile deep.

88.3 square mile deep?

[Architect]

Ancient astronauts. Got to be.

[gumboot]

I quite like the notion of the UN having a secret army of mercenaries poised to storm into the USA on black helicopters and follow road signs to FEMA death camps. That would be frikken sweet, especially since New Zealand is a long, long way from the USA.

-Gumboot

[Architect]

No, that one's true. You just don't know about it because it's the European branch organising it. Unfortunately the Italians are putting the scheme together....

[ElMondoHummus]

Foo Fighters.

No, not the band; the aeronautic phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter)witnessed during World War II.

[Bell]

Foo Fighters.

No, not the band; the aeronautic phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter)witnessed during World War II.

Yes, those are cool!

And what about the Battle of Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_coast_air_raid)?

ETA: No, not the album :)

[chatiez]

rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=106575

chinese secret society training ninjas to fight back the illuminati, :cool:

[Cuddles]

Stargate. We get all the cool alien gadgets, travel all over several galaxies, most of the fighting happens a nice, safe distance away from Earth and we always have MacGyver to save us if things get a little tricky.

[Peephole]

Stargate. We get all the cool alien gadgets, travel all over several galaxies, most of the fighting happens a nice, safe distance away from Earth and we always have MacGyver to save us if things get a little tricky.
Or McKay

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/d/da/Mckay3.jpg


:o

[technoextreme]

Has any conspiracy theory ever made you think "You know, this is probably a load of bull, but if it were true, it'd be freaking awesome!"?

I can say that about several CTs. Which ones do you find the coolest?

(And "cool" doesn't necessarily mean "good", for instance, if Tyrannosaurus Rex still existed and was eating people whole as we speak, that wouldn't be "good" per se, but it'd still be very cool)



For me, I'm torn between the existence of the NWO and the existence of aliens at Area 51. It's hard to say what's cooler between a secret evil organization controlling world affairs, and space aliens.
I remember searching on Amazon for the word Stargate and found books in the nonfiction section... I think I've said enough.

[Curdog]

I like the idera of UFO jockey Nazis inside our hollow earth...

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

Has any conspiracy theory ever made you think "You know, this is probably a load of bull, but if it were true, it'd be freaking awesome!"?
...
For me, I'm torn between the existence of the NWO and the existence of aliens at Area 51. It's hard to say what's cooler between a secret evil organization controlling world affairs, and space aliens.

I would definitely vote for the Area 51 and Lizards imitating humans CTs.

Any CT that makes for good science fiction is entertaining.

"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ***... and I'm all out of bubble gum."

[defaultdotxbe]

"I came here to chew bubble gum and kick ***... and I'm all out of bubble gum."

you might find this entertaining

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/solrosin.aspx

[Sparky]

Heh. That Denver Airport CT is cool.



What is it with the NWO anyway? Why do they have to sprinkle the airport with clues and put those symbols everywhere?



88.3 square mile deep?

I had to leave a comment on that guy's site about the Point Loma tunnels in San Diego operated by NOSC. I'm curious to see how far he goes with that one.

[dudalb]

For Sheer entertainment value I admit that Icke's Reptilian Aliens Rule The World is hard to beat.

[Corsair 115]

I remember seeing a book in college many years ago called Somebody Else Is On The Moon. I thumbed through it, curious to see what it was about. Well, it put forth the case that there were extraterrestials on the Moon, and were actively engaged in some kind of activities there, even as NASA was sending astronauts to the Moon.

The author supported his argument with photos from various lunar missions showing what he alleged could not possibly be natural formations and which had to be artificial objects. The photos included in the middle of the paperback book were obviously not of the greatest quality, and I could never see in them the things the author said was there.

Until, that is, I finally saw in one picture what was supposed to be in it — an "X" shaped device perched on the top of a hill. And sure enough it did look just like that. I thought that rather compelling at the time.

The author, at the end of the book, said that you didn't have to take his word for it. He listed the NASA identification number of each photo he used in his book and said you could order from NASA 8"x10" prints of those particular images and look at them for yourself.

Not sure what I'd think of it all if I was to come across the book now...

[portlandatheist]

More in the crime category than conspiracy but it would be cool if DB Cooper is somewhere enjoying the good life

[Foolmewunz]

I posted mine also under the "weirdest" CT thread last week (or so)....

I was always fond of the CT that Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis so that she could move the brain-damaged but still living JFK to the privacy of Skorpios, where he'd been photographed by paparassi papparazzi poppara.. some photograph-taking-guys, playing in the sand with a little red pail and shovel.

[Cuddles]

Or McKay

http://scifipedia.scifi.com/images/d/da/Mckay3.jpg


:o

Nah, too whiny and spends too much time playing around with other people's technology. Far better to have someone who can bring down an entire advanced alien empire using only some paperclips, a rubber band and a half full (or possibly half empty) lemonade bottle.

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

you might find this entertaining

http://www.soundboard.com/sb/solrosin.aspx

Actually the quote is from "They Live (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/)"

Wp_K8prLfso

[Disenchanted]

The EAC would be the coolest; as it would include serving Satan, black helicopters and mind-control devices.

[Cheap Shot]

The Best:

Several witnesses on the night of the explosion, including the pilot of a New York Air National Guard plane, reported the sighting of "an orange streak of light" descending toward Flight 800. Some have speculated this to be a missile, others a meteor and some conspiracy people have suggested a UFO. None of the above of the true. The truth of this matter will be so startling that you will not believe it at first reading but you will eventually have to accept it as fact.

The "streak of light" was an electro-magnetic-temporal ribbon that sliced through the atmosphere on the night of July 17th, 1996. This ribbon was created as a result of the conjunction of several top-secret government scientific experiments involving Einstein's Unified Field Theory (UFT) and the effects of high electro-magnetic frequency waves on portions of the atmosphere to warp into existence a rift in the space-time continuum .

At 8:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, two large antenna arrays, the first one in the state of Alaska known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project (H.A.A.R.P) and the second in Norway known as European Incoherent Scatter Radar site (EISCAT), were activated to study the creation of temporal anomalies in the Earths atmosphere by altering the magnetosphere of the Earth in a way to cause such intense fields of magnetic compression within an area to warp a rift into the space-time continuum. The purpose of the project was to create this rift to study Einsteins Unified Field Theory. Several sites across the Earth were selected for the creation of the rift in areas away from civilian centers and airline traffic.

The target area was to be over the center of the Atlantic Ocean and was to be studied by top-secret Military Atmospheric Information Satellites (MAIS). Several other attempts at this experiment failed due to miscalculations within the internal sub-processors of at least three Cray 3 super computers stored at the H.A.A.R.P. site. Once the sub-processors within the Cray-3's were replaced and several maintainence and calibration checks were performed, the system was at full operation on the night of July 17th, 1996. The facilities of H.A.A.R.P in Alaska and EISCAT in Norway were simuletanously put into operation.

http://techsupt.winbatch.com/webcgi/webbatch.exe?techsupt/tfleft.web+Stories+What~really~happened~to~TWA~800 .txt

Check this site out for the whole thing. The mind is an amazing thing.

[Diagoras]

Hands down, the best one would have to be the conspiracy about the Holocaust being fabricated. It would be great if we could delete this grim, depressing chapter from our history books.

But if we're going by sheer coolness alone, I think the big alien cover-up and even some of Richard Hoagland's material would be pretty cool if it weren't a steaming pile of BS.

[lordofwaffles]

I can't recall where, but I remember reading a claim along the lines that the Nazis built a secret base on the moon.

This isn't really as cool as the alternate history/imagination gone wild scenarios that come from that little story though. I can just imagine the movie "The Guns of Navarone" only in space, the SAS vs. Nazi Moon Men and such. Or maybe Neil Armstrong discovering the skeletal remains of the last hold outs of the Third Reich in their little moon shelter.

At the very least, it'd make for an interesting episode of the Outer Limits or something.

[Z]

We had one on Ft. Bragg for a short while I thought was cool as heck - that if you go about three miles underground, you'll encounter an underground mega-city - a vast military complex that stretches from Philidelphia to San Francisco, south as far as Miami and Dallas, and north to Cheyenne Mountain. The complex employs a staggering 1 billion people, all Americans either listed as missing or deceased, or born in the complex itself, and being run in an imperial military fashion. The complex employs advanced alien technology reverse-engineered from Area 51, and a non-human component are also allowed to live there as second-class citizens - survivors of UFO encounters, and their offspring.

The wellspring of the Men in Black, doncha know.

It was a pretty cool story someone concocted, but had the rather unique feature of no 'heard it from someone who...' aspect. The story circulated for about two years among the soldiers, and then... stopped.

I think it's cool because it kind of combines all the best theories with some of the more bizarre aspects of the Denver Airport, Cheyenne Mountain (WarGames), and the buried supply depots under Bragg that sometimes could be seen after storms or maneuvers (that officially don't exist either).

Nothing quite as strange as digging a foxhole, and uncovering a buried air vent - with air blowing out of it - in the middle of the woods. Not that this ever happened, of course...

[BenBurch]

I can't recall where, but I remember reading a claim along the lines that the Nazis built a secret base on the moon.

This isn't really as cool as the alternate history/imagination gone wild scenarios that come from that little story though. I can just imagine the movie "The Guns of Navarone" only in space, the SAS vs. Nazi Moon Men and such. Or maybe Neil Armstrong discovering the skeletal remains of the last hold outs of the Third Reich in their little moon shelter.

At the very least, it'd make for an interesting episode of the Outer Limits or something.

It was in the plot of "Rocket Ship Galileo" by Robert Heinlein

[c4ts]

The Philadelphia Experiment.

[negativ]

I too would be indescribably overjoyed if the Roswell crash CT and the "MJ-12 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_12)" CT turned out to be real. I keep hoping that some day, someone will make a really great movie out of that story.

Not that I WANT it to be true, but I would not be terribly shocked if the Kurt Cobain CT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Kurt_Cobain) were proved to be true, even though I'm only a lukewarm Nirvana fan.

[Redtail]

One I came across was that the online first person shooter games were all created by the military and they record all of the scores and use them to recruit kids who do well in the games for spec ops. Not just SEALs or Delta mind you. but Rainbow Six/GI Joe/Werewolf/high tech type group!

[GreNME]

One I came across was that the online first person shooter games were all created by the military and they record all of the scores and use them to recruit kids who do well in the games for spec ops. Not just SEALs or Delta mind you. but Rainbow Six/GI Joe/Werewolf/high tech type group!

I wouldn't call that a CT, though. It sounds more like a pipe dream. ;)

Of course, I say this as the only IT guy I have ever met who doesn't game.

[dudalb]

Yes, those are cool!

And what about the Battle of Los Angeles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_coast_air_raid)?

ETA: No, not the album :)


Where Wild Bill Kelso made his famous flight:D

[dudalb]

One I came across was that the online first person shooter games were all created by the military and they record all of the scores and use them to recruit kids who do well in the games for spec ops. Not just SEALs or Delta mind you. but Rainbow Six/GI Joe/Werewolf/high tech type group!

This is an old Urban Legend,and dates back to the early eighties when Space Invaders first came out and allegedly the Military was recording high scores for future recruitment.
They even based a Sci Fi Movie "The Last Starfighter" on the idea,except it was aliens instead of the Government doing the monitoring.
It's an old Urban Legend classic.

[Apollo20]

I like the whole Gemstone File / Howard Hughes story.

From Skorpios with Love....

[quixotecoyote]

Not really a conspiracy theory, but would be cool if the military was still keeping up the underground zoos.

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

Oh! I almost forgot... The 30 floors beneath the Pentagon, Whitehouse, Capitol, etc...

[Redtail]

This is an old Urban Legend,and dates back to the early eighties when Space Invaders first came out and allegedly the Military was recording high scores for future recruitment.
They even based a Sci Fi Movie "The Last Starfighter" on the idea,except it was aliens instead of the Government doing the monitoring.
It's an old Urban Legend classic.

:jaw-dropp Holy monkeys! I didn't know it went back that far. They guy who brought it up (on the now defunct iwon politics board) stopped talking with me about it when I asked that since I was really good at Madden, should I start shopping my talents around the NFL.:D

[Bell]

Where Wild Bill Kelso made his famous flight:D

Yep, Spielberg based the movie on this incident afaik. Allthough I never knew it whenever I saw the movie. I stumbled across this incident last year when I was doing some research for a story I want to write (still suffering from writers block though :( ) and was intrigued by it. Kind of reminded me of War of the Worlds (both the radio show and the 1953 movie).

BTW, there's a CT of sort about that radioshow as well. Don't know where I read it, it was linked from a War of the Worlds forum back then. Iirc it's about how Welles disclaimer (that the broadcast was just a radio drama) was added AFTER the broadcast to escape penalties for inciting mass panic. The governing body for broadcasting (can't remember who those are?) didn't record their own tapes, and got them from CBS, who thus had added the disclaimers before handing them over.

Ah, just looked up the Wiki page, and there's even another CT :rolleyes:

It has been suggested in recent years that the War of the Worlds broadcast was actually a psychological warfare experiment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(radio)#Conspiracy_theory

[ElMondoHummus]

One I came across was that the online first person shooter games were all created by the military and they record all of the scores and use them to recruit kids who do well in the games for spec ops. Not just SEALs or Delta mind you. but Rainbow Six/GI Joe/Werewolf/high tech type group!


What??... It's not true???? :cry1

(*Throws down controller*)

[HL7442]

How about KAL 007 ditched successfully at night with no electric power(hence no intruments), damaged by two AA missiles, near Moron Island where all, including a Georgia Senator, are taken into captivity by the Soviets. They are still prisoners to this day.:rolleyes:

[Brainache]

How about KAL 007 ditched successfully at night with no electric power(hence no intruments), damaged by two AA missiles, near Moron Island where all, including a Georgia Senator, are taken into captivity by the Soviets. They are still prisoners to this day.:rolleyes:

Moron Island? That would explain a lot.

[ElMondoHummus]

I don't have any more examples of "cool" conspiracy theories, but I've always had one that I thought was rather sad: The idea that some Vietnam POWs were still alive and being held prisoner somewhere. I've not heard anything since the early 90's on this, but among the people who were involved in the "POW/MIA" movement were family members who were simply hoping against hope that a loved one was still alive and might make it home, even decades after the fact.

I'm normally not much of an emotional guy, but it really gets me to think about families not knowing what happened to their father/brother/husband/whatever. I know some families of KIAs from WWII and Vietnam (but oddly enough, not Korea), and it was hard enough on them (not that they talked about it much, but their reticience and minimalism told me enough). And in their case, they had knowledge of how their family member died as well as their body to bury. Not knowing must be pure hell.

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

I don't have any more examples of "cool" conspiracy theories, but I've always had one that I thought was rather sad: The idea that some Vietnam POWs were still alive and being held prisoner somewhere. I've not heard anything since the early 90's on this, but among the people who were involved in the "POW/MIA" movement were family members who were simply hoping against hope that a loved one was still alive and might make it home, even decades after the fact.

I'm normally not much of an emotional guy, but it really gets me to think about families not knowing what happened to their father/brother/husband/whatever. I know some families of KIAs from WWII and Vietnam (but oddly enough, not Korea), and it was hard enough on them (not that they talked about it much, but their reticience and minimalism told me enough). And in their case, they had knowledge of how their family member died as well as their body to bury. Not knowing must be pure hell.

Well there was a recent thing in the news about the "defector" to North Korea during the Korean war who finally left.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Jenkins
http://www.kimsoft.com/2004/jenkins.htm

[GreNME]

:jaw-dropp Holy monkeys! I didn't know it went back that far. They guy who brought it up (on the now defunct iwon politics board) stopped talking with me about it when I asked that since I was really good at Madden, should I start shopping my talents around the NFL.:D

I'd say go for it. Not like it could hurt. ;)

[holycanoli]

The Denver International Airport CT is cool.

http://i20.tinypic.com/zjzf2g.jpg


I had not heard that one. 22 miles across huh! So they built something over 115,000 feet long--underground! Incredible.

[Viper Daimao]

Not the coolest, the Grooviest (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/)!

[HL7442]

Mayor McCheese was assassinated by the Fry Guys.

[cnorman18]

Being Jewish, I've always thought the coolest one involved the Jews running the world.

I've always imagined what I would be given to rule over......

Awww, MANNN--you beat me to it.

Just don't tell anyone about internationaljewishconspiracy.com. Then they'll know EVERYTHING...

(Oops.)

[ElMondoHummus]

Mayor McCheese was assassinated by the Fry Guys.


Buh... wha?... Hamburgler's innocent?

[HL7442]

Buh... wha?... Hamburgler's innocent?




Word is....the Hamburgler is a Mossad agent.:eek:

[holycanoli]

I'm not so sure it's not a conspriacy.

Any math class above the times tables seems to be just a ploy to employ teachers, sell text books, require tuition payments and the ever popular metriculation fee.

We've studied something where the question (lets say) f(x) = -X and the answer ends up being -X. In other words, the answer is the same as the question.

Algebra largely is a totally irrelevant field of study to real-life events as far as I can tell.

[holycanoli]

Buh... wha?... Hamburgler's innocent?


I always said, "Don't turn your back on Grimace."

[HL7442]

I always said, "Don't turn your back on Grimace."




I knew it....those big boggle eyes, his skin color and the way he talked.......clearly Grimace was part of the dancing Israeli art students spotted on 9/11 cheering when the towers fell.:jaw-dropp

[Senex]

This may have gone from conspiracy to proven through careful study, but it still qualifies as cool. http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1714062007