“Moon landing was fake!!!” “You still believe the moon is real?”
This was highly effective when I used it in real life.
The conspiracy theorist got real mad demanding I name sources, I kept telling him to find it on the internet with fake search terms.
I would have screamed “do your own research!” before just leaving.
I fondly remember reading a comment in /r/conspiracy on a post claiming a geologic seismic weapon brought down the towers.
It just tore into the claims, citing all the reasons this was preposterous bordering on batshit crazy.
And then it said “and your theory doesn’t address the thermite residue” going on to reiterate their wild theory.
Was very much a “don’t name your gods” moment that summed up the sub - a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.
As long as they only focused on generic memes of “do your own research” and “you aren’t being told the truth” they were all on the same page. But as soon as they started naming their own truths, it was every theorist for themselves.
It’s ego powered with insecurity jetfuel, still can’t melt steel beams tho.joke
a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.
This has been my take.
They’re not there for the truth. They’re there for validation.
A lot of people are predispositioned to believe that the official story is automatically true.
Jet fuel indeed doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel. Forging temperature, OTOH, no issue.
You don’t understand, steel is either solid or melted. No in-between. No idea what you mean by forging temperature, swords for example are forged by pouring liquid steel to a form, it’s in so many movies!
/s obviously.
I know the /s but I also want to introduce you to amorphous solids! (Because I like them so now you get to read this lol) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_solid
Which is essentially a “solid” structure without a proper crystalline structure. This will cause it to move as a liquid at incredibly slow speeds. Such a glass for instance. Extremely old historical glass can be seen to be thicker at the bottom than the top. Not because it was built this way, but because over hundreds of years it has “poured” down [1].
*This is a simplified explanation and therefore may not be acutely accurate for sake of simplicity
TL;DR Some solid stuff is really just super slow liquids. I.E. Glass
[1]: See link in comment reply. Glass is an amorphous solid but sources say that glass pane construction is the cause of thicker bottoms rather than it’s movement over time.
TIL, I did a project on this 10 or so years ago, so either I misremembered or new information came to light
You didn’t misremember, it was a scholarly discussion point that spread too far before it got debunked, like how some people still believe the “gum stays inside you for 7 years”
Ice too. Glaciers are flowing.
That’s pretty neat!
When I started reading these comments I didn’t expect them to be full of actual, unironic conspiracy theories. 🤔
Dinosaurs are a lie created by the wizards to hide the existence of dragons.
Memespiracies
I like to just be the crazier one. Flat earth? You still believe in an earth, you silly goose egg.
Jet fuel doesn’t need extra tanks of mind control agent, they’re already using leaded fuel
Lies!
Everybody knows that the terrorists on the planes aimed them at the floor containing the Illuminati outpost and it was the fire from the cooling liquid for the supercomputers used to mind control everybody in New York that melted the support steel structure.
