Conspiracy
I’ve been watching that TV show Conspiracy? that comes on one of the history channels. It’s pretty entertaining. So far, I’ve seen one that ties Muslim terrorists to the OKC bombing, one on the moon landing being faked and one on the RFK assassination.
I talked about the OKC one before.
The RFK one is pretty interesting. Apparently, there are allegations of an LAPD cover up and there were tapes played of the police investigators telling witnesses who were being interrogated that they didn’t see what they said they saw. What they thought they saw was a woman in a polka dot dress and a man fleeing the scene saying we shot him. Police reports were changed to make the statements say they shot him. One guy was saying that (Sirhan)2 was a brainwashed assassin programmed to forget the incident after it happened.
The moon landing one was interesting too. People claim that the flag blowing in the wind is a giveaway since the moon doesn’t have any wind. Also, if you speed up the tapes of the astronauts frolicking on the moon, it looks just like someone running.
The show also presents debunking of the various conspiracy theories. It’s good entertainment.
January 12th, 2005 at 12:19 pm
A Handy TiVo scheduling link for those readers with TiVo. I just made a season pass for it.
January 12th, 2005 at 12:27 pm
Your link doesn’t work.
January 12th, 2005 at 1:22 pm
one the moon lading, did you see any stars in the moive.
I seem to remember that being another complaint. If their are no stars, then it must not be in space, but on a hollywood stage.
January 12th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
“Good entrainment”???
The definite answer to the Moon Landing conspiracy theorists is at badastronomy.com. E.g., you don’t see stars because stars are very dim; frame anything that’s sunlit or artificially lit to normal levels with a sensitive enough film and long enough exposure to capture a star and you just get a uniformly overexposed film.
January 12th, 2005 at 2:18 pm
“Good entrainment”???
Yeah, my editor took the day off.
January 12th, 2005 at 11:34 pm
That faked Moon landing thing really irks me. I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, where they built and test-fired the Saturn V first stage booster. It would be a quiet afternoon when suddenly the ground would shake like an earthquake. Then the sound would come rolling along a few seconds later — a long, steady roar. You could feel the thing from miles away! This would go on for a minute or more before shutting down. The power of that booster was incredible.
Now, what about the NASA conspiracy to hide the UFOs that have been following our spaceships? Or the Soviet conspiracy to hide their first few, failed, cosmonauts; before the Gagarin success? More here.