I just wanted to ask if any on here ever thought about starting their own conspiracy theory just to see how far it would go. When I was in grad school and the first 9/11 CT's came out I began to wonder if I could start one. Of course I was a theatre student thus while creative I didn't have the scientific background to back it up. (Then again, when has that stopped anybody?) Also I was worried that with my luck it would be so well done, so effective, so bloody freaking brilliant!!!! that even when I came forward and admitted it was all fake they would swear the MiB got to me and flashy thinged me! (Ok that's not true I just had a sudden urge to use "bloody freaking brilliant" and "flashy thinged" in the same sentence.)

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About 10 years ago, I was working on a project that required us to create high quality video animations. We had some very powerful tools. One day, a graphic artist on our team and I discussed the possibility of creating our own UFO video and seeing how many people would fall for it. We were even going to leave clues, like putting "You Idiot" on the UFO. We decided not to do it because misuse of company tools might get us fired. Still, it would've been fun.

I already asked this one. I was told the Bad Astronomer's job was hard enough without throwing fake fake stuff out there.

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Lol that would have been a good one Larry.

True. But if one were to leave clues in the evidence (like "you idiot" on a UFO for instance) Could it go a long way in getting people to not fall for such things?

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I am the visual,
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Judo flip, chop chop chop

I can't find it now... but there was a couple of specialists that photoshop'ed a UFO into a picture. They then proceeded to add 10 errors to the picture so that any expert should have been able to determine that the photo had been doctored.

It got so much press and was so wildly successful that they finally had to go public and point out the errors that they had purposely added to the picture. Even then, there were people who didn't believe them...




Then the black helicopters came and they were never seen again...

Seriously though... except for the black helicopters its true...

Well at another site - I have managed to tie in Deep Purple, the Columbia disaster and 911 together. Proving that Richie Blackmore knew of the events to come, and probably engineered them

By very very selective editing of the lyrics from some of their songs I have managed to bolt it all together into an interesting concept. And no I didn't use anything from Smoke On the Water lol.

I remember that UFO video. For a time it was hailed as the best example of an unexplainable phenomina and was lauded by a number of so called "expert ufologists". The clues left behind should have been immediately obvious to anyone who took the time to review the film closely, yet nnone of the experts saw them.

They want to believe. Damn the facts.

IIRC it was done in Britain.

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Well I tried to google the UFO vid but couldn't find it. I did find a Photo shoot with Vida Guerra though

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I am the visual,
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Judo flip, chop chop chop

Damn it sir, never let a few irritating facts stand in the way of the truth!! There are more important things afoot!!

Too over the top??

Facts? Damn the facts! We got CONVICTION!!!

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All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.~ Carl Sagan ~

Humanity must rise above the Earth, to the top of the atmosphere and beyond, for only then will we fully understand the world in which we live.~Socrates, 500 B.C. ~

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him. ~Albert Einstein~

The TRUTH is on our side... there is no fact more powerful than that!!!

I had once (on Lance's board, Illuminati-R-Us) mentioned my half-serious desire to wrest "control" of the Planet X nonsense from Nancy Lieder. Her popularity was in the gutter and it was clear she was, well... insane. I figured I could claim that the telepathic communication with the Zetas eventually destroys the contactee's mind. After ending contact, the person will still feel as if they are being communicated with (kind of like a "phantom limb" sensation), but statements become increasingly erratic, because they're no longer "guided". The Zetas then had to find a new person to communicate through: me.

Too much time and effort, though, and I'd get bored with it pretty quickly even I did succeed...

Actually after my last post I'm seriously considering starting a webpage to prove the French were behind 9/11, but I have locate a good connection between OBL and the french Government.

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Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I'm a tattletail... I sent email to Monique...

Some of us NASA contractors have talked about it and we've come up with some ideas on faking small portion of the Apollo missions. Our biggest stumbling block is how to fake the radio tranmissions to and from the moon.

I'm a tattletail... I sent email to Monique...

If I suddenly disappear, you'll know I was right.

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Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I thought of a few over the years. One is in an old thread here, about dinosaurs becoming sentient and leaving the Earth, only to return now and then to abduct people to see what happened after they left.

Another was my "proof" that vegetarians will reverse teraform the planet. By having noting but plant eaters, we would run out of CO2 scrubbers and greenhouse gasses would climb... Just like our ancestors did to Venus.

My other one was the orbiting electromagnet that would take a bit of space junk and fling it through the atmosphere with enough accuracy to take out a moving airplane. TWA 800 was the test (which is why some people say they saw a missile) and JFK Jr. was on of the live targets. I stopped before trying to tie that one in with JFK in '63.

One other one we joked about was the theory that Steven Segal had Brandon Lee killed on the set of The Crow becasue Segal realized just how bad his movies looked compared to Lee's.

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A Geek will think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

No problem. Just make one up!

Seriously, I don't care to add to the body of speculation, even in jest, although I understand what folks are doing here.

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And don't forget to use FACTS! when making up the connection.

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That one I could believe. You don't think . . . ?

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