YALBCT: Yet Another Lame-Brained Conspiracy Theory
Not content to leave any stone unturned in their quest to find hidden meaning in just about everything, conspiracy theorists have decided that Mars is, in fact, not red. NASA doctored the photographs, and this is proven by re-doctoring said photographs. Indeed.
Clearly, this is a simple by-product of government mistrust. The government controls our brains with microwave signals, NASA is an arm of this government, therefore NASA must be hiding aliens and telling us that Mars is a different color than it really is. It all makes sense, if you take some acid and read too much science fiction. 129,000 people agree!
Perhaps I’m just ignoring the facts. Or perhaps I’m looking at things with an unbiased eye. I harbor no love for the government. I mistrust the current administration in particular. But does this mean I think Bush is a lizard alien from another galaxy? Do I believe that we never landed on the moon, or that we did land on the moon but we actually discovered underground cities? Do I feel the need to author an outdated-looking, semi-flashy conspiracy theory website with very little useful content? No, of course not. I simply don’t have that kind of mentality. I may not like the government, but I’m not about to wear a tin foil hat and tell random people that the government can read my mind with spy satellites. I’m rational like that.
Occam’s Razor, people. The simplest answer is usually the correct one. Seriously, what would be the motive behind faking Mars’ redness? Is NASA trying to suppress free thought by telling everyone Mars is 30% redder than it really is? Come on. If you look on NASA’s website (or the UFOlogie link above), you can see pictures of Mars that look very red as well as some that don’t look that red at all. Wouldn’t a government agency be able to doctor all of its photographs? Secondly, could it not be possible that the redder pictures had dust on the camera lens, while the not-so-red pictures came from dust-free cameras? I can think of a bunch of non-conspiracy reasons for all of this.
Besides, if you look at the allegedly corrected pictures, Mars still looks red. Which throws this entire conspiracy theory out the window. And if that’s not enough…look at Mars through a telescope. It looks red, doesn’t it? DONE.
Now I bet I’m going to get angry comments just like the ones on the Alex Jones article. Awesome.
