I don't know about your IQ theory...I think the more complex a persons' mind becomes, the more it may be vulnerable to certain types of mind games... I just started paying attention to conspiracies within the last year...and if you do any research at all, you'll find that they are prolific...they're everywhere...and you've got to ask why, if you're interested at all. If you notice, along side the conspiracy crowd, in general, there are the astrology crowd, the psychic hot line crowd, you name it...the junk science crowd, the home medicine crowd, the mystic this or that crowd, finally leading to the religious crowd.. the one thing in common to them all is an outright disdain for reason and logic... and in my opinion, the louder that the conspiracy crowd, along with the others, get...is just an indication of the distance the general culture is from reason, facts, logic, science and everything that come from these things...proof, truth, observation... mean nothing to these crowds.... but not to be dark about this, we still are marching forward with pics, something to be proud of...and biotech, nanotech, and other things to look forward to... there just happens to be a hoard of people who choose not to focus, who want to be clueless, the mass media is very much like a powerful drug...you have to be very careful when you plug yourself into it, but most people are not... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Messenger" To: Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [OT]: Moon landings hoaxes ? > It's pretty funny that many people have responded to this topic with > evidence that would indeed be fairly easy to fake. Moon rocks? Who says? Oh > yeah? Well, they must be in on the conspiracy also. And it doesn't take > much of this sort of thing to realize that if it WAS a conspiracy, there > must have been in the tens of thousands "in" on it. > > Now maybe I'm naive (I am), but I don't know any two people who can keep a > secret let alone tens of thousands. Ground controllers around the planet > aiming radio telescopes at the moon, with staffs of dozens, contractors to > NASA, hams (many who aimed *their* antennas at the moon and received the > same signals), yada yada yada. It's mind bogling enough, the size of the > task to actually accomplish a moon landing let alone trying to fake one and > keep everyone quiet. And as someone else pointed out, it *was* a contest > against the USSR to see who could get there first and if they thought for a > moment that it had been faked, you can bet they would have gone way out of > their way to demonstrate the fact. > > Finally, does anyone else notice a particular correlation regarding the > fact that the more easily one is convinced of the conspiracy, the lower > that the persons IQ is? Naw... > > Yours in conspiracy, > Tom M. > > I did some searching on the net by the way and found a photo I'm in that I > didn't know was there regarding Apollo 16. There a picture at: > > http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/AS16/10075883.jpg > > of Apollo 16, just back from the moon, (or maybe just dropped from a '747) > with the USS Ticonderoga, CVS-14, recovery vehicle, in the background with > yet another 5000 people on the deck being fooled. I'm in the center of the > group of squids with the funny white costumes on. > > Must be my 15 minutes of fame, I guess. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.