Some of my favorite conspiracy theories involve aliens, zombies, clones, and alternate dimensions! What about yours?

#1

When Disney released their animated movie based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of The Ice Queen, they named it "Frozen" to redirect online searches away from information about Walt Disney himself being cryogenically frozen.

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    #2

    That Donald Trump actually has a functional brain.

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Biggest myth, they've x-rayed his skull with a drone and there's nothing there.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think he has a brainstem and medulla, after all, SOMETHING has to send a signal to his penis.

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    Danish Susanne
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course he has a brain, but a functional one?

    MissChocoholic
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    🤣 Dang, at least he doesn't have a diaper though. Man we really need someone younger for president, am I right?

    Jennifer Checki
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you know? That can’t really be all a**, can it?

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    #3

    Favourite? Not sure how one could have a single favourite, they're nearly all so laughable, but I do particularly like any of them that would involve thousands of people "in the know" and/or multiple governments to be acting together to conceal something, like area 51 or the faked moon landings. Or indeed "Sept 11th was faked" where literally millions of people witnessed the events they're claiming were not real.

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here's the thing. https://www.popsci.com/how-many-minions-can-you-have-before-your-conspiracy-fails/

    Roland Nijveld
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's assuming everyone involved knows the whole thing. Only a few do. Most know only small parts

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    Shankshaw Redeemer
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or the so-called Pizza Gate where all these celebrities and politicians would abuse children in the basement of the pizza joint, Comet Ping Pong. So freakin' ridiculous that people would think that many people would be involved and/or be aware of this and not one person said anything. I lost a bit of respect for my sister when she pushed this.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    also that it is that specific, some arb pizza joint in america. I mean if you are going to have an evil cabal meeting, at least do it at a masonic lodge or something equally dramatic.

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    Diolla
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. That's an argument I use a lot. I've worked for the Gov't in several functions and I've witnessed how difficult it is for them to get ANYTHING organized/ done. Completely impossible that they would be able to coordinate this level of coverups.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Governments appear to be very successful at cover-ups, which is a surprise given their track record on everything else." - Terry Pratchett

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The government admited that was secret work being done at area 51, just not aliens. Mititary.

    Fenchurch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes I heard there really were secret tests done at area 51. When locals started spreading conspiracy theories about alien space ships, gov did not deny it because they would rather let enemies be confused by the nonsense.

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    Oliver
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My dad works with someone who was right outside of the twin towers when the first plane hit. His wife though he was dead for hours until he managed to call her.

    Bewarethere@gmail.com
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Holy sh#t 4 the love God please don't procreate !!!!!

    Doodles1983
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    9/11 happened. Undeniably. The conspiracy is that it was orchestrated by the US. I am not saying it’s a theory I believe in, but that’s the theory, not that it never happened at all.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There have been many theories over the years, including some, from quite early on, that denied that any planes had actually hit the towers.

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    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Claiming the Moon landing was a hoax really really angers and annoys me.

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    #4

    The rich/elite of the world are all in league to hide how much wealth they have to avoid taxation. Oh wait...

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Panama Papers kinda changed this one from "conspiracy theory" to "actual conspiracy".

    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not really a conspiracy, as it's totally legal. Amoral, but legal.

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why'd this get downvoted, though? XD

    lemsip
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Elizabeth II got involved in some laws to make sure she could keep more of her wealth & income. Jacob Rees-Mogg is strongly anti EU because of proposed taxation laws.

    #5

    1. Justin Trudeau is Fidel Castro's son. The resemblance is crazy. 2. Chip companies make their bags loud on purpose. So you have to share. So you have to buy more.

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    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you live with only one soft can-opener, you don't have to share much.

    LinkTheHylian
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fidel Castro looked like the love child Seth Rogen desperately wants with James Franco, especially when he was younger. And with regards to chips, either learn to open the bag carefully, or remember "no means no" in any situation.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1. But what does it mean, that Trudeau is secretly a commie? No he's pretty far from one. 2. Totally support.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not saying he's a Communist...it's just weird that he looks like Fidel and not Pierre.

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    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's why I eat my chips alone and with a loud music in the background LOL

    Rachel Grig
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Justin Trudeau looks nothing like FIdel Castro, just google images of young Fidel Castro.

    Seabeast
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know who Justin really resembles? His father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Oh, and there's a bit of his mother Margaret in his face as well.

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    #6

    Your Government and Politicians care about you.

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    Diolla
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I actually believe that our government mostly IS trying to do something for the people, or the nation. But I live in Europe.

    Elizabeth VanDyke
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This statement should be chiseled in stone. It's a well-known fact that our government is just eaten up with concern for the people and our country. Look at the laws they pass! The only thing politicians care about is the money that rolls into their pockets from the lobbyists. That's why so many of the old farts stay in power whenever possible. There should be an age limit for those senile old fools as well as term limits.

    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't really a conspiracy. You're talking about the acts of individuals looking out for their own self interest. They aren't working together, in any real capacity. In my experience though, most people who run for office genuinely want to help people. I have known many state and local office holders, and they are all good people, who quickly become frustrated and jaded by the impediments to actually accomplishing anything. Then, yes, there are those people who run for office simply because they want to have power (we are currently fighting one of those right now in my county). As you get higher up the ladder, the balance tends to shift to more of the power hungry folks. But that's simply because in order to get that far, you have to play nasty and be able to raise huge sums of cash. And very few people can and will do that. If you were to go to a country with a better managed electoral system, one where there is less money in politics, things get better fast.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't this the opposite of a conspiracy theory? It's something the government tells you that isn't true. In a conspiracy theory that would be the cover-up, not the theory.

    #7

    Someone once told me they didn't believe in gravity... Just try to get your heads round that...

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    so s**t just goes downwards towards the earth because... it wants to? because it is actually flying? what then?

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember someone approaching my friend and I with this claim, once. My friend promptly shoved him to the ground. When the other guy asked him why he did that, my friend replied with "I didn't do that, gravity did".

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What band do gravity nonbelievers listen to? Falling In Reverse? I'll see myself out.

    Lori Rommel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a guy who insists that gravity is not an attractive force, but a repellent one. And somehow the mass of the earth BLOCKS this repellent force so we don't get flung off into space. I don't get it, either.

    Steven Bennett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gravity: it's not just a good idea--it's the law!

    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gravity is a law, but it's also only a theory. The fact that objects attract, and that the attraction is inverse to the square of the distance is newton's law of gravitation. But how it works (General Relativity) is a theory. It's an interesting distinction, and one with no practical differences, so I'll shut up now

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    Khall Khall
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gravity is a myth, the earth sucks.

    Rachel Grig
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was her name Phoebe and are you Ross?

    Doodles1983
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We don’t fully understand gravity. Some need to fully comprehend to believe so…

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    #8

    the goverment k!lled marylin monroe

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, I think she just got tired of having an A-grade brain in a bimbo's life.

    Bewarethere@gmail.com
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I definitely believe that 2 a point there were people that were involved we just Don't think we'll never know the truth

    #9

    Okay, here is another one that I like: There are people who claim that the state of Montana doesn't exist. Anyone claiming to be from Montana or to have visited Montana is lying and in on the conspiracy. What we think of as Montana is really just extensions of North and South Dakota (whose existence is also dubious at best). This ranks up there with the "Birds are actually fake, government spying drones" in the conspiracy books.

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    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't the foggiest clue. It's just a weird conspiracy thing that bounces around.

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    lemsip
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    State boundaries are arbitrary anyway. But when somebody claims that Australia or birds don't exist I shut myself off from them.

    Emptycaketin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well at least Montana is actually on all the maps. New Zealand, on the other hand...

    ArodTheHorrible
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one, too... https://www.reddit.com/r/Wyomingisntreal/ I find their reasoning to be especially amusing

    #10

    I've got a local one from my area: The Gosford Glyphs(though it has made it onto the internet, so let me know if you've heard of them) . There are a bunch of "hieroglyphs" carved into the sandstone out in the bush up the road from my house. People actually believe ancient Egyptians sailed their reed boat all the way from Egypt around the midfle east, India, China, Philippines, Indonesia half of Australia and finally landed 70km north of Sydney. Furthermore a National Parks ranger caught a guy in the 60s carving them. If you look at them there are dogs with bones, penis, and other silly ones. They even got an egyptologist to decipher the hieroglyphics and it was determined that they're gibberish and poorly executed. In saying that they do look cool and it's a nice walk out to them. You go past the Grandmother Tree which is probably the biggest redgum left on the Coast

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    Nancy Doughty
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would go just to see the tree!

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I took my Horticulture class out today to see it, I told the Angophora Dreaming story

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    Idiotic Bees
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ok thats absolutely hilarious.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haha I know right, theres this whole sub culture of hippies that believe it. the funny thing is there are legitimate Aboriginal carvings littered throughout that bush that predate Ancient Egypt by about 15,000 years but they ignore those

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    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FWIW, the peoples of Madagascar are Peloponnesian. So somebody sailed in boats from the Pacific ocean, across the Indian ocean and settled on an island off the coast of Africa hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not saying it's impossible that ancient Egyptians came to Australia, just highly unlikely. When did they arrive in Madagascar? Hundreds of years ago the boats were sea worthy and thousands (depending on how long) the sea levels were lower and it required less sailing between landmass Aboriginal People originally came down through Indonesia but the sea levels were lower 60,000yrs ago

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    exciting thanks! I like this! obviously modern fakes but still cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosford_Glyphs

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They do look cool and it's a nice walk, fairly easy too mostly fire trail

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    #11

    Aliens are real and you cannot tell me otherwise :)

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    100%LegitTurtle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree. The universe is way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way too big for us to be the only planet that can support life. Plus, scientists have already discovered exo planets that look a lot like Earth. They even have plant life on them. Nothing at all could convince me there aren't animals there

    Stardust she/her
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When did we discover plant life? It is probable that some planets have plants because of their atmosphere, it’s not confirmed yet because there’s many other ways to add certain gases to the atmosphere.

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    BittyBerry
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I definitely believe they are out there; I don’t know about the visiting us part.

    RedPepper
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This isn't a conspiracy theory, this is a probable hypothesis considering the scientifical facts. But if there's life outside of Earth, these forms of life have probably nothing in common with those we know.

    Ariom Dahl
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    imo the surest sign there IS intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos is that none of it has come anywhere near us.

    Ace
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a 'conspiracy theory' this one requires not only that life has existed elsewhere in the universe, but that it's evolved almost in parallel, time-wise, with us to a particular level of intelligence to invent space travel, visit the earth witnessed only by a scattering of people mostly in the US and that then various government agencies have then managed to hide any credible evidence of it. The further along that line you go the more vanishingly small become the chances that it's actually happened.

    Unpopular opinions
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I 100%. believe in alien life in some form but I’m not convinced there is “intelligent” alien life, at least not to the level of human intelligence.

    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Universe is a big place, theres a pretty good chance

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    #12

    That one where the CIA disposed the democratically elected leader because fruit companies were lost land...oh, that happened (Guatemala, PBSUCCESS) How about, The one where the CIA tried to use LSD for mind control. No wait, that's a thing too. (MKULTRA). Okay, then when the CIA trafficked crack cocaine from Nicaragua and Columbia for distribution in low income urban areas and...oh, no. that's a real thing too. (Allegedly. the Contras, U.S. backed right-wing rebel groups in both countries, definitely trafficked drugs, but the CIA lead probe found no link between the CIA and drug trafficking. Okay we have a winner)

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    Ace
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You see the problem with these? They were never "conspiracy theories" as such. They were actual conspiracies which were unable to remain secret.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah but some of these are confessed already, specifically mkultra and the fruit company thing... so ... yes, now you know why most of the world doesn't like usa very much.

    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The CIA also funded a number of coups in democratic countries, in order to install friendly right-wing dictators who would suppress the wages of the local population. This made it easier and cheaper for American factories to outsource workers to these countries and lower the cost of production. This had the double effect of increasing company profits, and also hurting the American labor movement (specifically Unions), which the CIA had long been trying to defeat. Unions are communism after all. It also lead to tens of thousands of people being killed in the name of American enterprise.

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    #13

    I don't want to live on this planet any more.

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ill stay if everyone else leaves

    Oliver Stiles
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait. Is this just cause ppl don't use correct punctuation. 🤔

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    wait but is this a conspiracy theory or what?

    Scarlett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, at least you have BoredPanda?

    #14

    The gender of the Great A'Tuin is unknown. I believe that Rincewind and Twoflower solved it.

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    Lindilou
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have just finished re-reading "The colour of Magic" so I am upvoting this one. Anyway, it is true.

    RafCo (he/him/ele)
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sure, but they were lost over the edge, and never reported their findings. At least the book ends with them going over.

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    Diolla
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    None of these names mean anything for me... OK I will Google them.

    VonBlade
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sounds like the words of someone who believed Cosmo would make for a better Patrician.

    oddly_informed_raven
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh yeah? I bet you also believe the Disc is round! /j

    #15

    It's my favorite because it's so ludicrous. The One Electron theory states that there is only one electron in the entire universe. It travels so fast that it goes backward in time, therefore being able to exist everywhere at once. The best part: technically, we can't disprove it, due to the unobservable nature of electrons and shaky understanding of space-time.

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not a conspiracy theory though. There's no Big Electron pushing the alternative narrative. It's just a thought Richard Feynman had (and as I understand it he wasn't altogether serious about it).

    #16

    My neighbor believes in several like the jewish lightening that caused wildfires. She has bought a generator and all kinds of wilderness items in case Snake Pliskin pushes the button. I'm just amazed she fit all that in a 2 bedroom apt. Seriously if its the end, I"d rather go with it than survive it.

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    Nancy Doughty
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A friend once told me that if she were near a nuclear bombing (like what was done to Japan), she'd get a bottle of Jack Daniels and drive toward the mushroom cloud. I'd ride with her.

    Elizabeth VanDyke
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She listens to that man trying to pass as a woman, Marjorie Green. Tell her to stop listening to him.

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that answers my question as to where the theory of "Jewish lasers from space" originated...

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm gonna control Bartertown in the aftermath of the apocalypse. I'm pretty short and I could be strapped to the front of a big fella to form Mickyblaster and control the power

    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That J should be capitalized. And we had nothing to do with it. I'd rather go too, surviving in a wasteland has no appeal.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I kind of thought of capitalization but since it's being used in a stupid conspiracy story I chose not to out of respect. My bad.

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    #17

    Personally, I'm a fan of the Polybius arcade game conspiracy. If you're not familiar, the legend goes that some shady, Men In Black government entity set up cabinets of a mind controlling/altering game called Polybius. It appeared over night in some arcades in Portland, Oregon. The cabinet was jet black, save for the name of the title in block letters on the marquee. Players would report having seizures, mental breakdowns, insomnia, hallucinations, you name it! After a few months it disappeared from the arcades, with all arcade owners and workers swearing it never existed.

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    Diolla
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure if this is a conspiracy, I would classify it as a mystery, or urban myth, depending on which side you lean to. Very interesting one at that.

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've actually heard about this quite a few times. Spooky.

    #18

    The government helps spread conspiracy theories so that when real information does get out, it's just labeled a conspiracy theory and disregarded.

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well the Gubberman certainly did this in Australia against my people. Except when the government does it it's called propaganda

    #19

    I don’t believe in this one but I think it’s super funny and that’s why it’s my favorite (also the fact it’s been disproven). The lock Ness monster. It was disproven to be just a piece of driftwood. (I did punctuation and grammar go away grammarly people)

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are many theories about what it was or was not, but driftwood is new to me.

    Steven Bennett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The most famous photo of the Loch Ness monster has been proven to just be a large chunk of driftwood, but there are many who believe that there are a species of previously unknown dinosaurs leaving in deep water caverns under the loch. Nessy is actually multiple generations of these dinosaurs, which explains why there have been sightings for hundreds of years.

    Danish Susanne
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't believe in the Loch Ness monster, but I also don't believe that we know all other creatures on this planet.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I never really find it implausible that there are paleo creatures still going around. Google "hobbit indonesia" for more.

    #20

    Probably, we’re living in a computer simulation. If it’s true, then the being who’s controlling me, isn’t the best with tech/gaming

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    Samsquatch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mine’s a ‘realistic’ person who hates everything

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well dang, I'm afraid I might be that being's alt account, I'm not exactly technologically inclined, either :/

    #21

    I love to think the "1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning" was an actual giant LSD test conducted by the CIA. I don't believe it 100% but it wouldn't surprise me.

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    Vermontah
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Extensive LSD testing was conducted by the US Army at Edgewood Arsenal and other locations from 1955 to 1967. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28686061/

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, that's why it wouldn't surprise me. Once you learn about MK ultra and other stuff they did, you learn nothing is off the table with them.

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    #22

    The existence of Lemuria. An advanced island civilisation like Atlantis which, like Atlantis was swallowed by the sea. It definitely existed because psychics and seers in the late 1800's communicated with the souls of High Priests who once ruled the Nation.

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Come now Nathaniel surely you are trolling.

    Pineapple
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    good news its not the classic nathaniel whos super funny its one of the many nathaniels though

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    Auntriarch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like to move it, move it 🎶

    Jared Robinson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait isn't this from conan the barbarian?

    #23

    For me conspiracies are about (a) explanatory mechanism (b) payoff (c) number of people required to carry out. Hence: If there's no payoff, I reject the conspiracy. If the explanatory mechanism is too far-fetched or requires too many co-conspirators, again, I reject it. So let's take two to show how it works. (1) Princess Di was unalived by her mother-in-law due to having an affair with Dodi. (a) Car accident involving 1 bad driver and a few paparazzi. (b) Payoff: ends embarrassment. (c) Number of people required (same as a). Result: seems plausible. Now let's try a different one. Covid was a weapon and intended so we can get chip injections. Requirements: (a) A bioweapon is manufactured and distributed without killing manufacturers. (b) What, that vax manufactuerers make money? or that bill gates gets to track us? for what??? (c) Several million health and telecoms workers and their respective employers. Result: ridiculous.

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    Nancy Doughty
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every now and then, I'll pause around anti-vaxers and tell them I'm getting an update to my chip. ;)

    Lindilou
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You forgot to add that Princess Diana was not wearing a seat belt and the driver was drunk.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the conspiracy to kill Diana was hatched by a bad driver and the paparazzi? This poster started off making sense then went mental during the examples. You'd need at least one royal, the British secret service, possibly the French secret service, and the French healthcare system (Diana was conscious and talking when the first ambulance arrived, which is why they took Dodi first).

    lubbaDubDub
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are conspiracies. History is full of them. Saying conspiracy theories are crazy across the board only makes people afraid to address them early because they'll be labeled as nuts, which conspirators looove. Let's say Crazy Conspiracy Theories Instead.

    #24

    People who believe in conspiracy theories think they're smarter than everyone else, even cats!

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course cats are smarter, look how much they're trained their humans to do.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only the one about soft can-openers wanting to try to take over the world. Supposedly, their opposable thumbs give them an advantage. Sadly for them, opposable thumbs are nothing compared to murder mittens, a hypnotizing purr, whiskers, tail, and beautiful sleek fur.

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    #25

    God is actually the equivalent of a college student in another dimension and has the entire universe in a beaker as a science project.

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    Danish Susanne
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he is about to fail because his project is considered sloppy?

    Jack S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or we live in a simulated reality and are on some nerds computer and in that world the program has only been running for about 3 seconds but to us it's felt like billions of years.

    #26

    We are in the matrix Like WTF no we aren’t

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My old philosophy professor summarised this as "There's no way to tell if it's true, and you couldn't change it if it was, so the best solution is not to care".

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This one is also called the Descartes Evil Demon problem and has been around for ages. Then we have scientists now claiming "alien simulation" etc., it's nothing new. So what you do is ask whether you'd expect a consistent universe from a simulation, or minor inconsistencies like cat deja vu.

    BittyBerry
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hold on let me break out my binary decoding sheet to read all these comments.

    #27

    The illuminati Who are they? Illuminati signs and symbols are everywhere, even in Beyonce performances, but what is real and what is a conspiracy? There are theories of a secretive power elite seeking global domination have long held a place in the modern imagination.

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    Jack S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The other theory is that a secret cabal of the rich elite created the idea of the illuminati to distract from the real group (name unknown... Probably just something like "The Council" or whatever) that exists in the hidden door, behind the curtain.

    Donkey boi
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1) Lots of people, but not as many as you might think. We have about 360K in the US, 23.5K in the UK, France has around 410K. 2) Illuminati signs and symbols are not "everywhere", at least, the symbols you are thinking of have nothing to do with the Illuminati, they have been linked to us by conspiracy theorists but there is honestly no truth to it. You wouldn't recognise our symbols if you saw them and those that you do, you do not associate with us. 3) We do not, and have never, sought global domination or power in the sense of your meaning.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There was a real illuminati who in my view made sense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati Totally support scientific government and church-state separation, so you go triangle-eye guys, you go.

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    #28

    The world series is rigged. The Boston Red Sox won after the Boston bombing. There are other instances of different teams winning the same year as local tragedies.

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    Bisexual Axolotls
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't surprise me honestly. Professional sports (at least the commercialized/famous ones) are a joke.

    Phil Green
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The World Series is definitely rigged though. The only teams involved are from the US! :-)

    Brooklyn Roffman
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This could also mean we’re in a movie where there’s bad things and then some sort of win at the end

    Doodles1983
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some truth there. But not necessarily due to rigging. Team attitudes change and it’s almost like they go to war.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    what world series? Is this an american thing?

    George Hylands
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yup, " world" series Baseball with no other Country invited.

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    #29

    I don't think I'll ever understand how some people can continue to believe in so many wild and oft times bizarre things. I believe a lot of things. I am always open to learning the facts of what I may or not believe. My mind is not set in cement. It's really sad that so many young people, old people, all people, have closed their minds.

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    Lonely Tentacle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's crazy because people believe things that, if they were true, there would be TONS of evidence by now. Like the Loch Ness monster, if it were true, there's no way it wouldn't have been photographed to death, studied, etc, for example.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you open your mind too far, your brain falls out.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your sentence seems to contradict itself. (a) you claim you can't understand believing wild things, (b) you claim to be open-minded. So perhaps what you mean to say is (a) I can't understand people who believe things without adequate evidence, and (b) I believe things based on adequate evidence.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How is that a contradiction? I'm not trying to be snarky, I don't understand.

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    #30

    My favorite, and Im gonna get downvoted for this but I think its hilarious. Its the story that Bill Hicks became tired of being a comedian so he faked his death. Only to reappear a few years later as Alex Jones, the king of conspiracy theories. If you cant see the humor in that theory, there is no hope for you.

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    General Anaesthesia
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never heard of Bill Hicks (who died almost 30 years ago-Wikipedia, so why should I?). Heard about the Jones creep, though. I see no humor in that. But fewer people understand my sense of humor than I wish, so there's that. Edit: my biggest beef with this is "If you cant see the humor in that theory, there is no hope for you". Even then I don't see the humor.

    Auntriarch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the "if you can't see the humour" part only applies to people who know about both men. If you don't know them, then it doesn't say anything about your humour.

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    Apatheist Account2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill Hicks was also a very strong anti-gun commenter - he was the sort of comedian that the establishment hates, giving voice to thinks that they'd rather you didn't think about. He was forthright, and perhaps ahead of his time; but also, very funny (for those who shared his views).

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry I'm ancient and I'm a bit vague on Bill Hicks. I think he gets a mention on an album by Pearl Jam or something.

    #31

    That the Earth is flat and that all the images of a round Earth are faked by NASA. This also requires that all of America's mortal enemies (Russia, China et al) are involved in this deception and remain fully committed to it.

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    Hannah M
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think you've captured the issue with most conspiracy theories: the conspiracy. All of them assume a large number of people and organisations can all agree to maintain a secret for decades or even centuries or millennia and it's never leaked. Regardless of the nature of the theory, the most outlandish part is that all of these people actually get along enough to maintain a deception of that scale (and that they would even want to..... Seriously, what would you gain from pretending the earth is round if it's not?)

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    not just that but that all planets are also discs etc., and we have no explanation then for planetary formation since accretion disk modelling shows it will form a ball...

    Lonely Tentacle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What's crazy is the amount of work they've done to explain their theory! I went to their fb page once, and holy poop, they have an explanation for everything!!! And they sound realistic, too! Still, though, it takes a special kind of person to believe all that after all the overwhelming amount of evidence we have about something that was proven soooooooooo long ago! I find it baffling that so many people actually believe that Earth is flat...

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some of them might take it too far, wanting to ban the use of globes from schools...

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My favorite thing isn't exactly the flat earth theory, it's the believers. They're hysterical, but creative 😆 If I recall, someone even made a "the earth is flat" rap.

    Lori Rommel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do like this one, just because part of it makes perfect sense -- the "why"! Why would NASA be complicit in faking all these photographs? The funding, of course! The one about birds is pretty good, too.

    Phil Green
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The NASA thing always gets me. It's as if the Russians never went to space, or the ESA for that matter.

    Pineapple
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    (This is a joke). It is flat Ik because I put a FLAT ruler on the floor and it lays FLAT

    Jared Robinson
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    finding someone's location using shadows and time of date and day requires that the earth be round to work, and it works so the earth is round.

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    #32

    That the world is secretly turning upside down… C’mon, you know it… the seasons are slipping… they start later each year… Surely the governments of the world can no longer hide that the earth is tilting on it’s access and very soon Aussies everywhere will no longer be able to sing about “The Land Down Under” 😜

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    Hannah M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, the poles do switch around, but that's a millions-of-years process. Also, there isn't really up or down in space, just everything held in place by various attractions

    Apatheist Account2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The tilt of the earth does change - but it only oscillates by about 25 degrees either way, so it won't flip over.

    Julie Snelling
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who says Australia is at the bottom and we are at the top?

    Rylee Evergreen
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this sounds like a bloody dystopian book that i really want to read

    Pineapple
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    nah man thats just california for ya

    The Best Mushroom Panda️
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have lived in CA all my life, never heard anyone say something as ridiculous as this.

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    #33

    Some people think that Australia is a hoax and that the animals there are animatronics.

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    Steven Bennett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's actually just a Disney attraction called "Down Under-land."

    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd believe that, it costs a fortune to be here

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Abnormally large spiders, bats, and, as my little sister would put it, "tall dogs with big feet and pockets". Sounds like animatronics to me 😆

    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tall dogs with big feet and pockets.......kangaroo? 🤣😂🤣

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So being Aboriginal Australian that would make me..............maintainace?

    #34

    Birds aren’t real

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    Hannah M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I find this one particularly intriguing because we have texts and images referencing birds going back to the most ancient humans, so to posit that they're all drones or robots is ludicrous. Although, I suppose, they were probably planted on earth millennia ago by aliens or lizard people. Silly me

    Danish Susanne
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In that case thankyou government for making spy drones, that sing so beautifully.

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    Peppy
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spring has sprung, the grass has ris, I don’t know where the birdies is. The bird is on the wing, but that’s absurd, I thought the wing was on the bird

    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How could you even come up with that one?

    Tiramisu
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a gag-theory. People who "believe" in the theory know that it is fake, it's a satirical movement meant to play off the absurdity of some conspiracy theories.

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    lemsip
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know they are real as I have one in a cage & four before her.

    Kristi Northcutt
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I swear to God I saw a fake bird one day. My best friend and I were sitting in her living room. She told me to look out the window and tell her if I saw anything off. I looked out of the window looking all around at the view. There were birds across the street signing on a fence and on a car. One bird turned his face in our direction and I saw a flash of silver light in its eyes. It was like lightening or like mercury. Then it turned 8 its head away again I jumped up immediately and walked towards the birds to see what the heck that thing was. All the birds flew away when I was about 7 feet away. That could not have been a real bird, with eyes like that. I went back inside the house and my friend confirmed that is what she had seen too.

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    #35

    These are my favorite “not conspiracy theories”, because they are true. 1. Epstein didn’t kill himself. 2. Lee Harvey Oswald did not work alone. 3. The Clinton body count.

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    Lori Rommel
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Q: What's the difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth? A: About six months.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    hmm not really, most people still take the JFK stuff as conspiracy THEORIES rather than facts.

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't even know where your head is at.

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    Based in reality. You act like I said the Earth is flat, the moon landings were fake, or that Covid isn’t real

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    Ace
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You may _want_ them to be true, but...

    Jennifer Checki
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Those are the definition of conspiracy theories. They are things you believe without proof simply because you want to believe them.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1. Believable. 2. Believable. 3. No idea what that means? Is it how many people Bill slept with?

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I was wondering, as well. The term "body count" seems to have more than one definition these days.

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    adam yauch
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I came here to say all three of these! The Clintons were definitely involved with Epstein's "suicide"!!! And possibly more...

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not sure why this was downvoted. But that's not what I wanted to go on about. Not that I'd exactly condone murder, because that's illegal, but...wasn't Epstein a creep, anyway? Or maybe I have him mixed up with someone else...?

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    #36

    Mikey blew himself up with pop-rocks and coke (guess my generation).

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know, I know. It's more of an urban legend, but kids viewed it as a conspiracy against Life

    TurquoiseTzarina
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually, Mikey DID NOT eat everything. The commercial centers on three young brothers eating breakfast. Before them sits a heaping bowl of Life breakfast cereal. Two of the brothers question each other about the cereal, prodding each other to try it, and noting that it is supposed to be healthy. Neither boy has any desire to taste it ("I'm not gonna try it—you try it!"), so they get their younger brother Mikey to do so ("Let's get Mikey"), noting that "he hates everything". Mikey briefly contemplates the bowl, then after tasting the cereal begins to eat it vigorously as the brothers exclaim, "He likes it! Hey Mikey!"

    MissChocoholic
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um, I'm not being rude, but can someone tell me who Mikey is? (If I search it I'll probably get the wrong result.)

    LinkTheHylian
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Only I can reject reality and substitute my own. Also, we busted this." - Adam Savage

    Vermontah
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember that. But you know Mikey will try anything so it was inevitable

    #37

    Paul McCartney is dead and the one we see right now is a "clone"

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What difference would it make though? And why would anyone bother with this exercise, since no-one outside old people in Anglo countries remotely care who paul is?

    Jack S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm in an Anglo country and I don't care who Paul is either. Lol.

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    Shyla Bouche
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Paul is dead now. Miss him, miss him.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope! He's 80 and seems in decent health for that age. Are you maybe thinking of George?

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    Kristi Northcutt
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The irony of this is that if this is true, the only Paul we know is the fake one. The real one would have died in I believe 1967. I was three years old and had no idea of who he or the rest of the Beatles were. The fake Paul, or Faul as he is known by the conspiracy theorists is the only Paul almost all of us have ever known.

    Kristi Northcutt
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And he isn't a clone. He is a near look alike with tons of musical talent

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    #38

    Area 51 it's a classic

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    #39

    We are unknowingly the pawns of aliens who have lost their home. Technology advanced so much in the last 100 years or so, because aliens came to earth and taught us how to make all of technological advances we have made. But it was not a gift. Everything we have done for the last hundred years has introduced the amount of carbon into the atmosphere that otherwise would have taken centuries. This has created climate change which will result in global warming of a few degrees by the end of this century. If we stopped pumping carbon into the atmosphere today, it will still happen, as we are now trying to limit the increase with the knowledge we can't reverse what's already been done. To us this is a byproduct of technology. But for the aliens, it has been the goal. Our planet is one they could live on and colonize, except to be ideal for them, it just needed to be a little bit warmer. We have unknowingly been terraforming our own planet for these aliens to take it away from us. This is not something I have read or have been told. It is an idea that came to me out of nowhere, which actually makes me tend to believe it is true.

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Things I imagine are true". Seek help.

    Jack S
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fringe season 5. (Except in that they were emotionless humans from the future - Same difference though)

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    #40

    Um, we are definitely in a sitcom, and yes I'm one of the main characters. the things that happen to me man.....they can't be explained. my pinterest boards explain it better than I do tbh but there are too many trippy things happening for me to NOT be some character in a tv show!

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    HelluvaHedgehogAlien
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh no. EVERYONE, SHE FIGURED IT OUT! Abandon plot no.938 immediately and re-arrange the random characters!

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    BUG I KNEW IT- no WONDER my soccer teacher at five had the same name as my current band teacher! Y'all moved around the characters!!! *cue sound effect gasp*

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    #41

    That supposedly Anne Hathaway, and her husband might be a reincarnation of William Shakespeare and his wife. Supposedly Shakespeare said something to his wife during his dying days amongst the lines of "I will love you in the next life". So there's the theory that our present Hathaway, as well as her husband William may be reincarnations of the ye olde couple. I may not believe it, but I think it's kind of sweet.

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everyone know Kanye is the wordsmith reincarnated, just ask him lol

    #42

    Everything was created last Thursday, all your memories feelings, friends and family were all created last Thursday.

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    Apatheist Account2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's true - you wouldn't know the difference. No way to disprove it.

    Jack S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then how can you definitively suggest it's true if there's no way disprove it? Because if there is no way to disprove it then there's also no way to prove it right? It's like the whole Schrödinger's cat theory. And until some proof of either/or can be definitive. We could say (just by going on this theory) that our existence is both real and only a week old at the same time. But why bother looking that deep into it. Even if it is true, my memories are still mine.

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    #43

    People always say that history just repeats its self. In some ways… yes. Consider pandemics. 1720s: the e Black Death 1820s: Childera Attack 1920s: Spanish flu 2020s: coronavirus Every 100-ish years a different pandemic happens. Evolution? Coincidence? Plan?

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    Apatheist Account2
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For those who are wondering: Black Death, 1346-1353. "Childera" should actually be Cholera, 1817-1824. Spanish flu began in 1918; and Covid-19 was so named because it was identified in 2019. None actually began in the decade beginning with a 2.

    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be so easy to Google this and get the dates right.

    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, I think it's nature trying to get rid of humans ruining the planet.

    lemsip
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's probably because immunity levels dip after at period of no pandemics as they have nothing to fight against. The swine & Sars pandemics blew over very soon after starting.

    Elizabeth VanDyke
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's Mother Earth trying to get rid of vermin.

    #44

    My favourite, for personal reasons, is that all quiz shows are fixed. In earlier times, many undoubtedly were, as depicted in the film Quiz Show - and even in the UK, I remember seeing the Hughie Green vehicle Sky's the Limit, where a contestant came on and said "I'll take the thirty pounds now" before they'd even been asked a question (for younger readers - it was a bit like Millionaire, in that the prize rose after each question, with an option to stick or continue. It was shown live, hence the lack of edit). However, having been on three shows, and won one, it's fun to correct people who "know" they're fixed, when in fact I actually "know" that they're not - certainly not any of the ones I've been on.

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    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well there's nothing real about reality shows, I do believe that

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree! They are known to be scripted as well as judiciously edited.

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    #45

    Any conspiracy theories about snakes. They're funny as heck.

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    #46

    One that makes me laugh pretty hard: my mom is deadass convinced that if you get the Covid vaccine, your e going straight to hell without trial

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But that's great news! If we can isolate the hell-causing ingredient in the Covid vaccine, we should be able to create an antidote to hell!

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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think she got it from some sketchy site (that’s what I meant)

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    Jack S
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So does she think you actually go on trial before going to hell normally?

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Like you see all of your sins and such as a bit of a trial

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    Emptycaketin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's called the mark of the beast, and it was prophesied to go on the forehead or the hand, not in the arm.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thank you…I did not know that and I’ll bring that up to her. She believes that the AntiChrist is behind the vaccines and etc.

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    #47

    On 9/11 at the exact moment of the WTC atrocities, the air force were having a training drill for that exact scenario, thus slowing down the response as it wasn't clear what was real. On 7/7 at the exact moment of the London Bombings, the anti-terror squad were having a training drill for that exact scenario, thus slowing down the response as it wasn't clear what was real. (http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/july-7-terror-rehearsal.html#drivetime) If it works once...

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    Hannah M
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm not saying this is true or not, and I've not looked into it, but hypothetically if it were, then two of the most powerful nations on the planet have a MAJOR mole problem

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    100%. It's a conspiracy theory after all. The first one is tough to verify beyond placing in a 'very likely to be true' category, due to so many weird theories about that incident, but the 7/7 one is totally verified. One coincidence is a coincidence, two is strange at minimum. (I accept that this isn't a happy/funny/silly conspiracy like not believing in cows. Not here for upvotes, just pointing out my favourite in a "hmmm strokey beard" kinda way)

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why are you getting downvoted? It never said you had to believe in the theory or what theory did you start/perpetuate, you just wrote one you know

    #48

    I'm hoping urban legends count here. (if not then probably the theory of polybius) The story of La Llorona (search it up).

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The story of La Llorona makes me more sad than spooked. I wouldn't go telling people I believe it, but...if I happen to be near a body of water and I hear bloodcurdling shrieking in the middle of the night, I'm outta there 😨

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not going to google if you can't be bothered to say what it is.

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm only going off of the version I heard, so my bad if this isn't exactly accurate. Or accurate at all, for that matter. A long time ago, a traveling nobleman stopped at a town for a while, and fell in love with a beautiful woman, a local there. The two wed and had children. Some time passed, and the nobleman took off, promising his wife he'd return shortly. A few years went by, the nobleman did not return. Wife left their home with their small children in tow in search of her husband when rumors started spreading in town that he'd found a new love elsewhere. Walking alongside the river in the middle of the night, she began to rant and rave, cursing the nobleman that abandoned them to the point that she lost her senses in an unhinged rage, and threw her children into the river to drown. Horrified, she realized what she'd done. She'd jumped in the body of water to retrieve them, only to drown in the river, herself.

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    Powerful Katrinka
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The story of La Llurona has been around for centuries. I wouldn't call it an "urban myth."

    #49

    The moon is hollow. It is an alien space craft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Moon

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    Lonely Tentacle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No! I refuse to believe that! The Moon is made of cheese. Blue cheese. And one day I'll fly there and eat the whole thing because I love blue cheese. 🤤

    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just remember, without our Moon there would be some weird and annoying things happening on Earth.

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    Steven Bennett
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Forget where this comes from now, but I either saw a movie or read a book where the moon was destroyed, but to convince people it was still there, they basically just replaced it with a big Hollywood flat of the moon and attached a gravity generator to the back so that it would appear the same on scientific instruments. Said they'd have to come up with a better explanation by the time people achieved space travel and discovered that the moon was just a 2D prop.

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it was before space travel, how did they put it up there?

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    Hannah M
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is wild because it made me realise just now that I kind of thought the moon was hollow. Obviously if I'd ever stopped and thought about it I would've been like, no, it's a rock, but I've never actually considered it before, and I guess I subconsciously did think it was like a ball, with air in the middle. Wow, I'm dumb. But yeah, aliens never came into it Edit: I just looked up cross section of the moon. I had no idea it had a molten core. Am I just really dumb?

    Pineapple
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    que tractor beam sounds and a space pirate,farmer,old dude, large space dog,robot,small and small robot panic sounds

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    Doodles1983
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or an observatory. #thetrumanshow

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    why then do other planets have space stations and stormtroopers sorry I mean moons around them?

    Pineapple
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    shhhhh the empire cant know you know their plans

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    100%LegitTurtle
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My sister told me that when Apollo landed on the moon, it sounded like a bell. I believe there may be hollow areas, but I'm reluctant to believe aliens are involved.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did they hear it when the moon hss no atmosphere for sound to travel in? Come on.

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    #50

    I accidentally started my own conspiracy theory when I wrote a story claiming that the famous 1945 Roswell, New Mexico incident was just a government fabrication to hide the fact that the actual aliens had landed in rural Maine in 1932. Some people who read it thought I was being serious (at least about the government faking Roswell).

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    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really? This wikipedia article and the linked article from 1947 does not mention a Mr Bennett at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident ...which suggests that if you did start this rumour, it means you are currently about 96 years old, since you'd have needed to be about 20 when you wrote the original article...

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nope, sorry, did not mean to imply that I had anything to do with the original Roswell incident or the theories that followed it. Mine was from a fictional story I wrote about 20 years ago, and the part about aliens crashing in Maine was kind of just a throw-away gag in a larger story about a super-spy type CIA agent. However, some readers seemed to think I was referencing an actual conspiracy theory. I am not a well known writer by any means, so I only pointed it out here to show how easily these things can get started.

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    #51

    Jon probably got rid of Lyman in Garfield

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    #52

    Story time: I met a guy in college (fall 2013/spring 2014) who directed me to several conspiracy sites, which I checked out. some were....crazy, some were interesting. one I never got a chance to check out until the summer. it turns out there is this guy who has predicted multiple economy falls over the last 50 years. (He predicted the '08 fall.) He was predicting a massive change on a global scale somewhere around the fall of 2019, or the spring of 2020. he couldn't put an exact date on it, but something big was coming. Being in 2014 I figured those years were so far away how could he really know? fall of 2019 I was joking with a friend how I shouldn't have bought a new phone knowing the conspiracy theory I did, due to it being so close, and possibly needing extra money in my account. Then in march 2020, the lockdown hit, and I lost my job. I've never wanted a "conspiracy theory" to be wrong in my whole life. My best friend still doesn't believe me when I tell her to beware of certain "conspiracy" related ideas, but now I'm wondering, if that one came true, what else is "just a crazy conspiracy theory" is true as well???!!!

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    Doodles1983
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Economics are driven by governments. There has to be booms and busts to keep the population in line.

    #53

    Not sure if someone said this already but my dad’s side of the fan believe the weather is influenced by the government and they choose bad weather for those who don’t pay taxes. I’m not really sure where this came from, but it’s funny. Some of these theories are just… whoa. What stuff are you ON?

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    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haha that's a far out one

    #54

    Not sure if it’s much if a conspiracy theory, but lavender town syndrome. It’s basically that the original version of the lavender town theme was extremely distressing, and caused suicides. It was changed for the American release. It can be considered more of a creepy-pasta, but there are certainly people who actually believe it.

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    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always liked the music for Lavender Town. That one NPC that points out the ghostly hand over the player character sprite's shoulder, however...

    #55

    that the 1969 moon landing was faked- there's no wind in space, why is the flag flying? and there should be stars in the background, but it's all black. someone please explain

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The flag isn't flying, there's a rod holding it up. Duh. Ever walked out in a major city and counted the stars? No, you can't see them, because there's too much light. Same as on the moon - the Earth's albedo is incredibly bright, plus light from the sun is unfiltered by any atmosphere.

    Mickysixxx
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You beat me to it, you can see the rod in the photo

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    Stardust she/her
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The stars are actually really far apart so it’s not that easy to see them. There’s also the fact that the sun is really bright. It dims out the light of other smaller stars and there’s hardly any atmosphere to filter out the light. I hope I managed to explain to you about the stars

    Larry XK
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are about a million Youtube videos and blogs that explain and debunk these theories. Do some research

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    excuse me for sharing my opinion, no need to be so rude about it 🙄

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    #56

    that we are in a dome i mean go do math stuff they say it takes a while to get to the moon and ISS but it should only take a few hours and they are "really far away" but again via math they should be super close to us, oh and just go look at the weather out here

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    Deborah Rubin
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone who refuses to use capital letters and punctuation can not be taken seriously.

    Abbelius
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it's a theory you believe in, why don't you do the "math stuff"? Or post a link to someone that's already done said "math stuff"?

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i will but first if you get banned im sorry i have accidently downvoted you while trying to reply but i have upvoted you to try to counteract it

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    Kilkenny
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Correct me if any of this is wrong but... Dist from Earth to Moon - 239000 mi Average speed of Apollo 11 - 3157 mi/hr Time - Dist/Speed - 239000/3156 = 75 hr - 3 days

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Do math stuff," Jesus Christ. Kindly slam your head in the fridge.

    censorshipsucks
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dont understand, is pineapple saying the ISS goes around earth to fast? not really. It's out in space with no air to slow it down...

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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    im saying its too close for it to actually take that long to get to it

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    Jack S
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Are you thinking of the Ozone layer? Or are you specifically trying to describe and actual physical dome? And if there is an actual physical dome, how to rockets even get past it? Don't forget that you need to account for things like gravity, the weight of the rocket, the time it takes to speed up to 17,800mph (the speed needed to get to the outer edge of the atmosphere), the fact that rockets don't just fly directly straight into space they have to follow and orbital line before they can adjust there trajectory in space.

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