A
couple years ago, I was on a site I don’t think is around anymore where you
could post articles and have discussions with the other members. I posted a few articles about space
exploration – which I’m a big supporter of – and there was this one lady – who wasn’t
a supporter – made some comments. We
went back and forth a few times and at one point she said that she knew a guy
who had worked for NASA and he had told her their dark secret, but it had been
told in confidence and she couldn’t repeat it.
Not
having any evidence, I wondered what could be an explanation for this “dark
secret.” Was her friend fired for being drunk on the job and he was just angry
and made something up? Did he have
dementia? Or, since this lady didn’t
have any interest in space and wouldn’t know an STS from an SLS (Space
Transportation System, or the Space Shuttle and the Space Launch System, the
big rocket NASA is currently building) is it possible that she just
misunderstood whatever non-dark secret thing he told her? Without any evidence one way or the other,
why should I just take her word that there’s a dark, NASA conspiracy?
Recent
events reminded me of this, and it got me wondering what percentage of
conspiracy theories exist because of a simple misunderstanding? My first thought was maybe 90%, but the more
I thought about it the more complex it became.
Years ago I saw a video of a woman standing on a hill outside of London videotaping
UFOs flying around Heathrow. A UFO
debunker pointed out that these UFOs had anti-collision lights as well as the
faint rumble of jet engines. Should this
woman’s conspiracy theory about why the British government said nothing about
these “UFOs” fit in the misunderstanding category? Also, with the recent 9-11 anniversary, I saw
an article about how some people were posing as conspiracy theorists on
websites to pass on these complete bullshit stories which the real conspiracy
theorists accepted as truth. Should that
be counted as a misunderstanding?
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