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Author Topic: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread  (Read 10555 times)

Jerick

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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2011, 04:59:53 pm »

Quote from: From the truthism site
Women are ultra-impressionable beings, and therefore are easily controlled by aliens and the elite. The main purpose of women on Earth (that is, what aliens have programmed them to do) is to enslave men via relationships. Women are obsessed with relationships and love (due to alien programming), and don't care about anything else in life. They would have men believe that being in a relationship is one of the most important things in existence, not realizing that men couldn't care less about being in a relationship--and rightly so. Furthermore, women force men to waste their precious time and resources on them. This demonic charade (i.e., relationships) has gone on for far too long and obviously has no end in sight. Thus, you can blame women for the downfall and utter hopelessness of humanity.
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The Earth is hollow, with an inner sun
and a more advanced civilization than ours.
In fact, all planets are hollow and have inner
suns. Some of the Inner Earth people are
aware of Earth's outer surface, and others
are not.

Earth's radius is 3,963 miles long. And, its
shell is approximately 800 miles thick--so,
the halfway point between Outer Earth and
Inner Earth is 400 miles below us.

Note that the deepest point of any ocean on
Earth is only 7 miles (6.86 miles, to be exact)!
I...what?
Serriously your telling me people belive this stuff?
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2011, 10:30:44 pm »

Soon the mole-men will ally with the demon-women to force us all into subterranean slave relationships under the cold light of the inner sun. The end is here!


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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2011, 10:30:58 pm »

These people are very much most likely faking.

I hope.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2011, 12:38:19 am »

We all live in a cosmic videogame, and the 2012 apocalypse is when God will start using Total Conversion mods.

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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2011, 01:10:32 am »

All matter and energy consists of vibrating strings.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #20 on: November 16, 2011, 01:16:15 am »

Wait... Relativity is an evil liberal conspiracy?
That is it, I forfeit my humanity, I just don't want to be part of a race this stupid. I'm going to hand out with jellyfish for a while, see if that works out any better.

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« Reply #21 on: November 16, 2011, 01:16:28 am »

Crackpot conspiracy theories are entertaining sometimes, its incredible the crap ignorant people can make themselves believe.

I came up with a pretty decent one myself, stating that not only are the moon landings fake, but all space travel ever, is a big hoax. Satellite communications are advanced HAM radio broadcasts, GPS is simple radio triangulation, the space shuttle blasted off (at an obvious arc) and landed in facilities in Europe (Moron and Zaragoza, Spain) without ever leaving the atmosphere. NASA TV is computer generated blue-screen stuff. All all the technology attributed to space flight is mirrored by the advances in computers, but use existing technology.

Also, space flight is impossible anyways, because nothing we've invented can go faster then Earth's escape velocity (11.2 km/s or 25,053 MPH, or 32 times the speed of sound) and satellites would be useless anyways because radio transmissions cannot escape the earth's ionosphere, they simply bounce off, except at a tiny point at the transmitter's zenith, which would tie every satellite to a geosynchronous orbit directly above a ground station and what would be the point when HAM radio can do the same thing?!!!1??/

Its all a plot to put taxpayer money into the pockets of the elite and keep you enslaved, man. / Its a plot by the UN to secularize the world and try to replace Jesus with hoax science.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #22 on: November 16, 2011, 03:46:33 am »

This would be funnier if I didn't know so many people like this in person. I try not to be rude but keeping a straight face when yet another person tries to sell me a free energy machine is getting difficult. I'll have to dig up the sites of a few of the people I've met.

For laughs New Scientist magazine often mentions crackpot gadgets for sale in the back.

I'm kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Conservapedia.
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« Reply #23 on: November 16, 2011, 03:50:25 am »

This would be funnier if I didn't know so many people like this in person. I try not to be rude but keeping a straight face when yet another person tries to sell me a free energy machine is getting difficult. I'll have to dig up the sites of a few of the people I've met.

For laughs New Scientist magazine often mentions crackpot gadgets for sale in the back.

I'm kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Conservapedia.

Second link, first post.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #24 on: November 16, 2011, 04:01:25 am »

When I read that it reminded me of Conservapedia but I thought it was advanced mathematics they said that about not general relativity specifically. Now I feel embarrassed.

One site I know of has had all it's information removed. Wayback machine saves the day. Unfortunately / fortunately all his "publications" are .pdf documents and are no longer available.

http://www.limestonetech.com deserve mention as a generally accepted form of crackpottery.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #25 on: November 16, 2011, 07:25:58 am »

Quote from: From the truthism site
Women are ultra-impressionable beings, and therefore are easily controlled by aliens and the elite. The main purpose of women on Earth (that is, what aliens have programmed them to do) is to enslave men via relationships. Women are obsessed with relationships and love (due to alien programming), and don't care about anything else in life. They would have men believe that being in a relationship is one of the most important things in existence, not realizing that men couldn't care less about being in a relationship--and rightly so. Furthermore, women force men to waste their precious time and resources on them. This demonic charade (i.e., relationships) has gone on for far too long and obviously has no end in sight. Thus, you can blame women for the downfall and utter hopelessness of humanity.
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I just...
How can...
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The Earth is hollow, with an inner sun
and a more advanced civilization than ours.
In fact, all planets are hollow and have inner
suns. Some of the Inner Earth people are
aware of Earth's outer surface, and others
are not.

Earth's radius is 3,963 miles long. And, its
shell is approximately 800 miles thick--so,
the halfway point between Outer Earth and
Inner Earth is 400 miles below us.

Note that the deepest point of any ocean on
Earth is only 7 miles (6.86 miles, to be exact)!
I...what?
Serriously your telling me people belive this stuff?

Hollow Earth-ism has been around since Antiquity. It was only in the Victorian era that science began to present the evidence to contradict it. I mean which sounds more plausible (without a detailed, modern knowledge of geology and planetary physics): that under the ground is a system of caves leading to a really big cave, or that under the ground is a giant ball of metal hundreds of miles across, surrounded by thousands of miles of lava?

The misogyny thing is totally that guy's personal synthesis though.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #26 on: November 16, 2011, 07:30:27 am »

threadhop:

wow in the first post the thing about relativity... they are full of it. if they would read on relativity they would know that it HAS been proven. using the Bible to refute science? dear lord...
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #27 on: November 16, 2011, 07:31:22 am »

I'm kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Conservapedia.
It's quite an interesting case - the guy who runs the site seems to genuinely believe in conservative principles, but he bans anyone who disagrees with him in the slightest.  So all the genuine contributors who have minor sensible disagreements with him go, and all the parodists who say ridiculous things but make sure to agree with him whenever possible stay.
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #28 on: November 16, 2011, 07:38:41 am »

conservapedia on porn:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

seriously? As porn becomes more available sex crimes have been going down, and they seem to of forgotten that men can be victims too.

wikipedia one conservapedia on relativity:

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Conservapedia has also received criticism for its articles regarding the theory of relativity, particularly on their entry titled "Counterexamples to relativity", an article that lists examples as to why the theory is incorrect. Attention was drawn to the article by a Talking Points Memo posting, in which they reported on Conservapedia's entry and stated that Andy Schlafly, Conservapedia's founder, "has found one more liberal plot: the theory of relativity".[42] New Scientist, a science magazine, criticized Conservapedia's views on relativity and responded to several of Conservapedia's arguments against it.[43] Against Conservapedia's statements, New Scientist stated that one is unlikely to find a single physicist that would claim that the theory of general relativity is the whole answer to how the universe works, and said that the theory of relativity has passed every test that the theory has been put through.[43]:1

University of Maryland physics professor Robert L. Park has also criticized Conservapedia's entry on the theory of relativity, arguing that its criticism of the principle as being "heavily promoted by liberals who like its encouragement of relativism and its tendency to mislead people in how they view the world" confuses a physical theory with a Christian-conservative moral value.[44] In a similar statement, New Scientist stated at the end of their article that:[43]:2

    In the end there is no liberal conspiracy at work. Unfortunately, humanities scholars often confuse the issue by misusing the term "relativity". The theory in no way encourages relativism, regardless of what Conservapedia may think. The theory of relativity is ultimately not so much about what it renders relative—three dimensional space and one-dimensional time—but about what it renders absolute: the speed of light and four-dimensional space-time.

In October 2010, Scientific American criticized Conservapedia's attitude towards the Theory of Relativity, assigning them a zero score on their 0 to 100 fallacy-versus-fact "Science Index", describing Conservapedia as "the online encyclopedia run by conservative lawyer Andrew Schlafly, [which] implies that Einstein's theory of relativity is part of a liberal plot."[45]

conservapedia got OWNED!
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Re: Internet Crackpot Appreciation Thread
« Reply #29 on: November 16, 2011, 08:15:07 am »

The Flat Earth Society

Yes, they still exist.

More comprehensible than most of what's been posted so far but no less strange for it.
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