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Evolution.
Conspiracy Theories: Do people really believe these things? YES
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You can pour molten aluminum in all kinds of things. It cools and hardens very quickly, so it's great for a less destructive mold of something like a termite or ant nest. Even watermelons.
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The big resurgence of polio is way overdue.
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According to what I've read, Apollo 11 generation radiation shielding would not have been sufficient. And the astronauts would have been fried if they went past the Van Allen belt.
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God (or sometimes Satan or Scientists) put dinosaur bones in the earth to test us.
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That trickster god.
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Bravo.
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I don't ever recall it being a conspiracy theory. It was just that the justification for war was based on an event that didn't happen.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/press20051201.htm
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The show was mostly hilarious, but the fusion center episode was actually pretty scary.
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For a few years I questioned if Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Clearly someone did since there are mirrors on the surface of the moon, but I figured it could have been later missions that put them there. What had me questioning the landing was footage showing that the Apollo 11 astronauts very clearly cut a circle out of a piece of cardboard and put it up to the window. This created the illusion that they were much further away from Earth than they really were. In the footage, they claim that they have the lens put up against the window, yet you see a shoulder pop into frame and hear someone say, "Get out of the shot, Buzz." I don't know why they would have done this, but these days I do 99.9% believe Apollo 11 did land on the moon. This is because of they simply didn't have the technology to fake the video footage. The linchpin of the conspiracy theory is that the footage is slowed down. That would require magnetic disc recorders far larger than what was available at the time. The biggest ones that were commercially available (they were used for sports replays) could hold about 9 or 10 seconds of slow-mo footage. The first EVA was 143 minutes! There's just no way. Even if you say "OK, well what if they used film?" There's no film grain, scratches, marks, or splices on the 143 minutes. This would require a single film magazine as big as a car tire. No way.
I'd also say that PRISM and NSA spying counts as a true conspiracy theory. People have been asserting that the government has been spying on its citizens for decades. Now it's clearly true.
I'd also say that PRISM and NSA spying counts as a true conspiracy theory. People have been asserting that the government has been spying on its citizens for decades. Now it's clearly true.
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No, it doesn't. It's been proven that the images and footage are composites of home-made and NASA-produced imagery. The Apollo 20 videos are pretty creepy though; I'll give the guy that much.
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Religions: Do people really believe these things?
If it is ok or understandable to believe in a religion, a conspiracy theory is fine too.
If it is ok or understandable to believe in a religion, a conspiracy theory is fine too.
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The best conspiracy debunking video I saw for the moon landing deniers was one where a guy talked about how the only way to mimic the moon's gravity at the time was to slow down film by using a higher effective frame-rate via overcranking and, consequently, consuming a vastly larger amount of film to get that effect.
The resulting length of film reel and the people and facilities needed to splice and edit it into the full broadcast would have required so many people, materials, and square footage of space and equipment that it would have been impossible to hide it.
The other method required magnetic storage cameras, which at the time, could only store about 30 seconds of video (or 90 seconds of Apollo 11's 10 FPS footage).
It was cheaper and easier to actually go to the moon than try and fake it 143 minutes of footage with late 1960s film technology.
http://www.geek.com/geek-pick/why-it-was-impossible-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing-1537386/
edit - Oops, my bad. Well, enjoy the link to the actual video anyway.
The resulting length of film reel and the people and facilities needed to splice and edit it into the full broadcast would have required so many people, materials, and square footage of space and equipment that it would have been impossible to hide it.
The other method required magnetic storage cameras, which at the time, could only store about 30 seconds of video (or 90 seconds of Apollo 11's 10 FPS footage).
It was cheaper and easier to actually go to the moon than try and fake it 143 minutes of footage with late 1960s film technology.
http://www.geek.com/geek-pick/why-it-was-impossible-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing-1537386/
edit - Oops, my bad. Well, enjoy the link to the actual video anyway.
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If you look at how people behave, then no, I don't believe people really do believe in religion.
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I heard he keeps them below Mario's Pizza in Coxsacie, NY.