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YALBCT - 9/11 revisited

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Cody
on February 22, 2008
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Honestly, will the 9/11 conspiracy theorists ever admit they don’t have anything solid to go on? Case in point: this video. (It should be noted that this link may cease to work shortly, as the Stage6 video service is shutting down. I’ll try to find it elsewhere.) The entire video is based on a couple of minor explosions in the North Tower shortly following United Airlines 175 hitting South Tower. Um, explosions in a burning building? STOP THE FREAKIN’ PRESSES!

Seriously, though. The video claims that explosions were set off in the North Tower to distract from what was happening in South Tower. First off, distract from what? My guess is that the makers of this video believe the “no-plane” theory, which holds that missiles hit the towers instead of airplanes. There are a lot of holes in that theory, but I won’t go into that (besides, few conspiracy theorists actually believe that theory). Second, those minor explosions are hardly distracting. They look more like blown out windows than anything else. You can’t compare that to a massive fireball caused by hundreds of gallons of jet fuel.

This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder why so many people think the government engineered 9/11. This is not evidence. It’s guesswork and opinion. I watched that video and saw nothing out of the ordinary in those North Tower explosions. They happened about a floor or two beneath the impact zone, so it’s not a stretch to conclude that the fire had spread to those floors and caused the windows to blow out, especially when combined with the heat and shockwave caused by the explosion in South Tower. Once again, nothing to see here: move along.

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YALBCT

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Cody
on January 30, 2008
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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.

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