Top Ten Conspiracy Theories

[Anubis]

3 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Do you have a better explanation of why warm air from the exhausts of planes hitting the cold low pressure air at altitude would cause trails, well, do you?

 

 

Yes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

No. 

[Numero Veinticinco]

3 hours ago, TD_LFC said:

Do you have a better explanation of why warm air from the exhausts of planes hitting the cold low pressure air at altitude would cause trails, well, do you?

 

 

I… do not. Nor does my second head. 
 

 

[Kevin D]

This women doesn’t believe in Ancient Rome.

 

https://www.insider.com/history-anthropology-tiktoker-ancient-rome-not-real-backlash-viral-2021-12

 

 

[TD_LFC]

JET FUEL SUNLIGHT CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS!!!

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-62196975

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

In fairness, the rails aren't melting: they're expanding. The gaps between the rails only allows them to expand so far without buckling.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

20 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

In fairness, the rails aren't melting: they're expanding. The gaps between the rails only allows them to expand so far without buckling.

Of course, when steel beams buckle as a result of impact damage and extremely high temperatures, they can't be relied on to support the thousands of tons that the top part of a skyscraper weighs.

[Mudface]

3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Of course, when steel beams buckle as a result of impact damage and extremely high temperatures, they can't be relied on to support the thousands of tons that the top part of a skyscraper weighs.

Especially not when Mossad and the Liberals rigged the building with explosives.

[Rico1304]

3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Of course, when steel beams buckle as a result of impact damage and extremely high temperatures, they can't be relied on to support the thousands of tons that the top part of a skyscraper weighs.

LIZARD!

[No2]

Heard about HARP on Saturday night. It's a mechanism to control the weather, it's the elite currently burning Portugal to the ground. Same loon* was big into the chemtrails too. The 2 things over lapped because they haven't yet found a way to control the wind. I asked is this not also dangerous for the elite if the wind could conceivably blow whatever it is in to their air space? No answer for that surprisingly enough, also no answer as to how they managed to get Israel/Palestine, loyalist/nationalist, Democrats/republicans etc to agree to this new world order when they can't agree on a single other thing. 

 

* he never used to be a loon, this experiment to see just how far they can they bring their belief systems got a hold of him during lockdown.

[TD_LFC]

No weather on their moon base, they'll be fine.

[Anubis]

Wait, what?

 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

15 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Wait, what?

 

 

It's a classic, that one. John Lennon even mentioned it in "How Do You Sleep?"

[Vincent Vega]

Has anyone been following the Alex Jones trial regarding his disgraceful conspiracy theories around the Sandy Hook school shootings? It’s going really well for him.

 

[Rico1304]

The bit where his defence sent ALL of his electronic comms to the prosecution by accident was gold. They sat on it for 12 weeks and are now just picking apart his testimony.  He should be going down for non diclosure alone. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Do we reckon the Artemis mission is real, or is it all CGI? 

 

(Maybe I'm a hipster purist, but I preferred the authentic feel of Stanley Kubrick on a massive soundstage in the desert.)

[TheBitch]

Some cock head in work going on and on and on and on about “The great reset”

 

I haven’t bothered looking into it as he’s a loon that I don’t engage with. 

[dockers_strike]

Why do women pluck their eyebrows only to then either draw them on again or, stick false ones on? What's that all about?

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, TheBitch said:

Some cock head in work going on and on and on and on about “The great reset”

 

I haven’t bothered looking into it as he’s a loon that I don’t engage with. 

 

It was started by the World Economic Forum/Davos mob and Klaus Schwab.

 

They did a book on it : COVID-19: The Great Reset

 

And went into it on their website, there's probably still a decent amount/most of it on there.

 

It's them trying to cash in and reinvent crony capitalism in the middle of a global pandemic basically I think. Then when you have all of the authoritarianism we had, vaccine mandates, passes, the push for digital ID, scapegoating unvaccinated, etc, and Klaus himself saying that everyone needed to be vaccinated and boasting about how the WEF had "penetrated the cabinets" of governments and offering Canada as an example, it kind of blew up into tons of different theories.

 

So a lot of it might be bullshit but at the same time some of it will be fairly accurate and Klaus and his gang didn't really help things when it comes to some of the crazier stuff.

 

I said year or two ago that Uncle Klaus was/is a conspiracy magnet with all of the mad shit he's come out with and I still think that.

[Red74]

Meanwhile in kranksville

 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/challenger-crew-alive/

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, Red Phoenix said:

 

It was started by the World Economic Forum/Davos mob and Klaus Schwab.

 

They did a book on it : COVID-19: The Great Reset

 

And went into it on their website, there's probably still a decent amount/most of it on there.

 

It's them trying to cash in and reinvent crony capitalism in the middle of a global pandemic basically I think. Then when you have all of the authoritarianism we had, vaccine mandates, passes, the push for digital ID, scapegoating unvaccinated, etc, and Klaus himself saying that everyone needed to be vaccinated and boasting about how the WEF had "penetrated the cabinets" of governments and offering Canada as an example, it kind of blew up into tons of different theories.

 

So a lot of it might be bullshit but at the same time some of it will be fairly accurate and Klaus and his gang didn't really help things when it comes to some of the crazier stuff.

 

I said year or two ago that Uncle Klaus was/is a conspiracy magnet with all of the mad shit he's come out with and I still think that.

It's like the 9/11 conspiracies: because vultures take advantage of bad shit happening, cranks pretend that the vultures secretly planned all the bad shit.

[Red Phoenix]

1 hour ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

It's like the 9/11 conspiracies: because vultures take advantage of bad shit happening, cranks pretend that the vultures secretly planned all the bad shit.

 

The only thing I can think of that's been planned for a while is the digital ID thing which could be a nightmare in itself with everything that could be added to it, even Snowden warned about that earlier in the pandemic as well I think in an interview as did Naomi Klein in an Intercept article (I checked back and she mentioned "biometric tracking tools") on the Great Reset at the same time as she was speaking against conspiracy theorists, people denying covid, etc. The lab leak thing probably made things worse too even though that's still not confirmed unless I've missed something.

 

They've definitely tried to take advantage of it though yeah, hopefully most of the shit they've come up with fails too.

[sir roger]

Noticed the NASA launch was aborted, presumably the projector was broke.

[dockers_strike]

Sci Man Dan critiques yet another loon about NASA and fake pictures from Mars!

 

 

[dockers_strike]

But flat earthers say the military ban people from Antarctica and no one can go there!

 

When Lars-Eric Linblad took the first group of tourists – or “citizen explorers” – to Antarctica in 1966, seal halitosis was a serious issue. “God made a huge joke animal in the elephant sea,” declares a film produced by his company, advertising one of its most popular attractions to a band of intrepid travellers. They weren’t put off: that initial voyage began a steady increase in tourism to “the last great wilderness.”

Linblad died in 1994, but his company remains, ploughing past icebergs and glaciers to show tourists Antarctica’s strange, isolated wildlife. Before the pandemic, more than 74,000 tourists travelled to the continent. This year, it’s thought that around 100,000 will make the trip. 

Those numbers are high, but the allure of Antarctica – especially after the pandemic – is in the sense of it being some last, unexplored part of the world. For the super-rich, opportunities for truly rare and exclusive holidays are scarce. And so a new world of opulent, “last-chance” tourism has opened up on the continent. 

White Desert, an “authentic luxury camp” run by Hugh Grant-lookalike Patrick Woodhead, provides exactly that service. The brand has been running in some iteration or another for 17 years, but this season it opened a new, space age-themed camp named Echo. Here, guests can gaze out at the polar landscape from the comfort of a heated, fur-lined pod. A private chef arrives six months in advance to prepare. Desserts are served in bowls of Antarctic ice. Prices start at around $98,500 (£85,250) for a week. Flimsy tents and rusty dog sleds this is not. 

The luxurious pods are about as far from camping as you can get

The level of work it takes to support the camp is staggering. “A single can of Coca-Cola costs $36.80 (£31.85) for us to put it in Antarctica,” says Woodhead, making it the most expensive in the world. The comparison to a space mission doesn’t seem flippant – for guests to take an excursion to the South Pole from the camp, for example, it’s a seven-hour flight. In preparation, a contingent of White Desert staff trek for six weeks, “sit for three months” in anticipation of visitors, and then trek home. “If you can’t afford to go on Virgin Galactic, it’s the next best thing,” says Woodhead. 

This is, of course, an extreme way to see the continent. Antarctica has been a regular on cruise programmes ever since Linblad’s first trip in the 1960s, and this is how most visit. Tourists are greeted by imposing glaciers, huddled penguin colonies, and not much else. The breathtaking, vast expanse – made all the more alluring because of its isolation – is within the grasp of wealthy tourists, who sail breezily through the ocean passages that claimed the lives of explorers a century ago. 

The cruise market is not, however, quite what it seems. The ships are orchestrated by the IAATO, the organising body that attempts to regulate tourism on the continent (although operators aren’t obliged to join it). Guests on a cruise are given unspoilt views, but around the headland will be a queue of other vessels waiting for their turn at witnessing the sublime. “It’s a fake wilderness,” says scientist Dr Kevin Hughes, who works for the British Antarctic Survey. “The reality is it’s a really busy place, and it’s a bit disingenuous.”

White Desert offers can extreme way to see the Antarctica continent Credit: Kelvin Trautman

For the super-wealthy able to pay White Desert’s six-figure rates, however, that subterfuge can be avoided. “We had Bear Grylls on the same trip as a Saudi princess who had never seen snow before,” says Patrick Woodhead. 

And operators like The Explorations Company provide tailored trips for people looking for an extreme adventure, whether it’s climbing a never-before-summited peak or skiing along an empty plateau. “Two men brought their motorbikes all the way to the South Pole,” says Johnathan Drew, operations director at the company. “We had to make sure they were completely oil-tight before they went in, and we caught every drip.”

That vigilance is key to Antarctic travel. All parties – whether operating in a scientific capacity or for tourism – have to act in accordance with the Antarctic Treaty, signed to ensure no nation has a controlling stake in the continent. The imperative to leave no trace is taken extremely seriously, and visitors have to scrub their shoes on arrival to prevent the introduction of non-native species.

Then there are the wider environmental concerns. The Antarctic is melting, in part because of the industry that allows guests to gawp at it. For White Desert, this means offsetting flights and researching the feasibility of sustainable aviation fuel. “The camp can be dismantled without a trace, we remove all waste, all the plastics are removed, all the soaps are biodegradable,” says Woodhead, eager to itemise the camp’s green credentials. 

White Desert operates a 'leave no trace' policy at camp Echo

Jonathan Drew from The Explorations Company is more cautious: “One has to be very aware of the pressures on the environment. It’s not somewhere where you can just go and give the penguins fifty quid.” Dr Hughes equally so: “It could be argued that scientific research is contributing to global issues, but it’s hard to see what tourism provides.”

Marketing for Antarctic trips often relies on the notion that once rich people have experienced ecological insecurity first hand, they’ll be inclined to live more environmentally conscious lives. It’s something White Desert is keen to stress. “We have CEOs and very influential people visiting, and if you want to protect something you get people to fall in love with it,” says Woodhead. But research undertaken by scientists in 2010 found there’s no evidence of this being the case. 

For Dr Hughes, the increase in tourism is troubling, regardless of how influential those tourists actually are. “It’s not clear to me that the number will ever be limited,” he says, adding that most human activity is crammed into one tiny part of the vast, icy expanse: the biologically interesting bits of the coastline are also where tourists are taken to see whales and penguins. And while a committee of 54 nations meet to discuss the potential impact of travel on the continent, Dr Hughes says that cultural ideas of wilderness and conservation vary so greatly between them that he “wonders if they’re even speaking the same language.”

Guests are treated to luxuries such as quality champagne and gourmet dinners

The premium travel companies know their audience, however, and largely don’t pretend that they are replicating some heroic expedition nor acting as a scientific proxy. “At White Desert, you are going to get decent champagne,” says The Exploration Company’s Jonathan Drew. 

And the sublimity of the place isn’t in doubt. Whether visitors are taking part in some formative personal challenge or drinking whiskey in a space-age pod, all are grasped by the notion that “we have a finite amount of time on the planet”, says Patrick Woodhead. “If Antarctica had a personality, it would probably just laugh at us.” 

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/antarctica/12000-a-night-antarctic-hotel-luring-billionaires-saudi-princesses/

[Spy Bee]

I find it a bit mad, that man reached the moon 8 years after they announced their intention to try. That they visited a few times over like 3 years, but then have not been back in 50 full years.