99% of conspiracies are full of ****e.
this includes:
freemasons/illuminati
9/11
kennedy assassination
moon landing
zeitgeist
basically everything posted in this thread. all of it has been soundly debunked time and time again, but conspiracy theories never disappear because it is impossible to convince a conspiracy theorist that they are wrong because there's nothing that scares them more than being part of the majority, even when all evidence points to the majority being right. it gives their lives meaning, being part of a revolution of sorts and rebelling against the man. others simply see it on TV and think it must be true.
i am interested in conspiracies all the same and will happily answer any questions people have about the above. I'll start with some of those already in this thread.
"the same backdrop was used twice in the moon landing"
this one is simple. the two pictures were taken a few meters apart from each other, and the mountains are large enough and far away enough that they remain both in view and in similar places in the camera shot. it's like if youve ever been going along in a car at night and looked out of the window at the moon, it pretty much wont leave the frame of your window until you take a turn. It's called a parallax. objects in the distance appear to move more slowly relative to the viewer than those in the foreground.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
The twin tower collapse resembled a controlled demolition
actually it didnt. at all. watch any video of a demolition and take note of the sound and the position the building appears to be collapsing from. controlled demolitions require the detonation of thousands of explosives in series, creating several successive bangs audible from miles around. The building will then appear to fall into the ground.
in contrast the WTC 'peeled' down from the top after having the top portion above the crash collapse into it, and no charges can be heard in any recordings. there are explosions, obviously, an airliner just flew into a skyscraper, but nothing like a controlled demolition.
for reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlGmnKvOhlg
now watch any WTC collapse video and tell me if you hear anything similar.
Something to think about considering whether such an operation was even possible:
the largest building every demolished required 4,118 charges and 36,000 feet of detcord to take down. it took 12 men about a month to set this up, and this was obviously an empty building that had been prepped for demolition. that building was 440 feet tall with a 204,000 square meter floor area. The WTC was 1,700 feet tall with an 800,000 square meter floor area.
Still think it could be demolished without anyone noticing something was up?