joseff wrote:Sorry for hijacking the thread, but this is an excellent place to seed other conspiracy theories
Let's start with the
phantom cosmonauts.
More of the same:
Lost Cosmonauts.
That's the problem with these things. You always get two groups of people - those who cover their ears and think that anything that might be sitting in front of them is ridiculous, and those that take some suspicious happenings from an event and then extrapolate them wildly into all sorts of things.
Take the phantom cosmonauts thing. I don't particularly see that as a conspiracy theory - apart from the fact there is no official confirmation. The Soviet space program was so secret, even from people who were supposedly intimately involved, that this is perfectly possible. The fact that they have the names of real cosmonauts in their training programs, and those names match up to their recorded broadcasts, is pretty important evidence. This is more than possible, and it's quite important for history that this is investigated really. Some of their evidence and descriptions were quite interesting, I thought.
As for the Kennedy assassinations. I think any impartial observer can agree that there are an awful lot of things wrong with the Lee Harvey Oswald lone killer official story. However, people then extrapolate that out into things that could possibly be true, and write stupid books about it, but that there is not a shred of evidence for anywhere and which leads to nothing. Most people just don't know how to take one step at a time. If you want to find anything out, I would advise any investigator to look at Lee Harvey Oswald's
supposed brother, and the husband and wife who befriended him and took that convenient picture of him with the rifle, and find out just who they really are
.
It's rather like the twin towers collapse. There is some pretty good evidence to suggest that the twin towers should never, ever have collapsed the way they did based on evidence of how all other buildings collapse, and just the calculated physical energy actually required. Unfortunately, people then jump straight from that into trying to imagine why the buildings were demolished and how much money certain people made, and any hope of finding out what might have happened is lost.
