Conspiracy Theories?

[johnmiic]

Watch the ballistics gel experiment. Watch a shooter recreate the "magic" bullet tumble.

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A Discovery Channel special "Unsolved History: JFK — Beyond the Magic Bullet",...this bullet came close to duplicating all wounds in both men with a single shot, with a bullet having little deformation

l've seen this special. They actually go the process of determining if there were also viable shots to be had at the grassy knoll and from a sewer location. They claim that Kennedy could have been shot from the grassy knoll but you would have had to shoot thru and break the windshield to do it.

The re-creation of the Oswald shot is quite good but still only lends creedence to the theory that the fatal blow comes from behind. It does not necessarily prove Oswald was the only gunman or that he pulled the trigger. There is still some doubt Oswald even fired the rifle. Some witnesses testified he was in the wrong location at the wrong times to have been on the specific floor to fire the rifle. I am a conspiracy buff and I'm not knocking down that special or it's findings. That was a really good show.

[Brazoo]

There's this fallacy that rears it's head whenever there's huge strides in technology - there must be some other force at work other than just our ingenuity.

Sometimes feats that we think are amazing have very simple solutions.

Geometry of the Egyptian Pyramids: For years people were amazed by the fact that the pyramids were built with such precise geometry. To do so would have required them to understand Pi - but it seemed impossible that the ancient Egyptians could have figured out the mathematics of Pi - it must have been aliens!

Turns out there's a very simple solution - they probably didn't know about Pi, they probably just used circular measuring devices.

[Mikey]

I think the biggest conspiracy that was ever proven true was when the Soviet Union shot down that that Korean passenger jet and they wouldn't admit it.

That only lasted a few days though.

[bizzaro megomauler]

we had arrived at another conspiracy theory conclusion,
when asked about all sorts of things, the Mattycollector answers are so vague, Is IT POSSIBLE THAT MATTY HIMSELF IS MERELY ONE OF THE OLDEST EMPLOYEES OF MATTEL?
ladies and gents I give you Matty aka The magic 8 ball!

[bizzaro megomauler]

No, there isn't.

Do some research on the advances the conspiracy theorists love to dwell on, like fiber optics, lasers and Kevlar. It was incremental advances thanks to the life work of many talented men and women. You know, it actually kinda irks me we live in a culture were people would rather believe aliens are actually responsible for kevlar because a woman couldn't have possibly invented it.

I give up!

That's sexist there ARE woman aliens you know!

[Werewolf]

That's sexist there ARE woman aliens you know!

You really wanna go there?

Not according to the alien conspiracy nutters. They claim the aliens were neuter. What is sexist is believing aliens created Kevlar and not Stephanie Kwolek.

[mego73]

Nobody mentioned the who dropped the deuce in the urinal conspiracy

The Mystery of the Urinal Duece

[mego73]

The conspiracy I heard about recently and made me think a little is the 1996 TWA flight 800 being a covered up terrorist attack instead of a plane crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BUXu0AEpg

I'm not saying I endorse the conspiracy theory (yet) but there are some interesting aspects.

[Joe90]

First time in how many years? Oh ya, first time since the day the Mayan Calendar started. So, ya. That's what they are telling us, in the language at their disposal.

Not to rain on anybody's Apocapalypse, but...

Because the Mayans only had rudimentary equipment to chart and calculate the movement of the stars over the Long Count Calendar (5125.36 years) they made a minor error: the alignment already happened at the end of the 20th Century...

[dumbldor]

It is built out of limestone, a rock that has a HEAVY HEAVY concentration of silicone. This type of a structure, its composition, and its shape give off a significant amount of electro magnetic energy straight up into outer space... like a beacon of sorts.

Let's not let science get in the way of some of these theories.

Limestone is primarily calcium carbonate, not silicone (I think you meant silicon). Elemental silicon does not exist naturally; it is abundant as silica aka silicon dioxide (Si02) aka sand aka quartz.

[bizzaro megomauler]

The conspiracy I heard about recently and made me think a little is the 1996 TWA flight 800 being a covered up terrorist attack instead of a plane crash.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6BUXu0AEpg

I'm not saying I endorse the conspiracy theory (yet) but there are some interesting aspects.

AGAIN "It happened on Long Island.
It's like the Damned X-Files here.

I can confirm rumors a plenty people claiming having seen a missle launch, to persons in the rescue effort telling me firsthand, there were explosives involved.

[bizzaro megomauler]

You really wanna go there?

Not according to the alien conspiracy nutters. They claim the aliens were neuter. What is sexist is believing aliens created Kevlar and not Stephanie Kwolek.

Umm it was a joke. and I will admit it, Kevlar was actually derrived from the study of spiderwebs! the work is Brillaint, and has nothing to do with alien tech. It was purely applied sciences inspired by nature, and the study of silkworms, and other spinning insects. I learned more than enough about that from my science professor.

[bizzaro megomauler]

Not to rain on anybody's Apocapalypse, but...

Because the Mayans only had rudimentary equipment to chart and calculate the movement of the stars over the Long Count Calendar (5125.36 years) they made a minor error: the alignment already happened at the end of the 20th Century...

as well as the foolish humans that needed to add leap year into calculations. People often read into that whole thing wrong anyway. At the end of the calender, we are supposed to give back to the universe, and our planet, by taking better care of it, planting trees, cleaning up, they were the original conservationists!

[Brazoo]

I don't think Mayan descendants or Mayan historians even think there's anything even distinct about 2012 on the Mayan calendar. From what I understand that whole 2012 date came from modern astrologers. Not to worry, after 2012 another date will be chosen.

Here's a nice handy list of over 200 end of the world dates: http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

[darklord1967]

Let's not let science get in the way of some of these theories.

Limestone is primarily calcium carbonate, not silicone (I think you meant silicon). Elemental silicon does not exist naturally; it is abundant as silica aka silicon dioxide (Si02) aka sand aka quartz.

You are correct. I did mean to write silica and not silicone. My point being that limestone contains varying concentrations of silica.

But silica is an oxide of silicon, the eighth most common element in the universe by mass, and it is the principal component of most semi-conductor devices like integrated circuits or microchips.

Films of silica grown on silicon wafers through thermal oxidation are essential to microelectronics. These films of silica act as electric insulators with high chemical stability. In electrical applications, it can protect the silicon, store charge, block current, and even act as a controlled pathway to limit current flow. In other words... a battery.