If this conspiracy idea of yours is correct then who's giving the government money to tell us the earth is round?
And when FE'ers say "The Government" which government EXACTLY do they mean?
The space exploration organizations. And the government/taxes are giving them money. Quite a lot of it at that.
Also, to pull off a scam like this, apart from it just being completely bogus idea, you'd have to be bribing:
- EVERY government in the world
Why? You mean every country whose been in SPACE? Perhaps. But that's only three.
- EVERY Aerospace company/industry/program (every space program) in the world.
Why? They don't all go into space. Only Russia, USA, and China have been in space. Everyone else is just sort of following.
- The entire Aviation industry, inc. Pilots, software programmers etc.
Why? They don't go into space.
- Most of the tourist industry
K, now you're just making shit up.
- GPS manufacturers
Give you that one. But only one guy would ever need to be in charge of the GPS system. Everyone else is just making whatever they need to make--they'd have no clue.
- Phone Companies
K, so...What the hell?
- TV broadcast companies
You mean for "sattelite" TV? You think that DirectTV, Dish Network, etcetera, all of them have their OWN "sattelites?"
- Weather Stations (actually, that's a point, if there's no sattelites then how do we predict the weather so well?)
We predict the weather well? That's news to me. It was supposed to be 23 degrees farenheit here today and rainy--its' 55 and sunny (no joke).
I'm pretty sure most weather stations use weather balloons enough, and again, weather stations who claim to use sattelites probably don't OWN their own sattelites.
- The Military, inc. Pilots, Radio/Radar programmers/operators, Weapons manufacture personell, Navigators, (the list goes on)
Weapons manufacturers, and Radar programmers?? What the fuck? That doesn't even make sense.
- The people at Google Earth
They don't own their sattelites either, and they use a lot of airplane pictures.
- Everybody who ever made model globe or a map
Okay, seriously, now you're just getting ridiculous and trying to make your list seem longer. Cartographers don't need to be in on the conspiracy.
- Pretty much EVERY scientist and Geologist in the world.
Arrogant much? They think the Earth is round because that's what they were told and that's what they accepted, just like you.
Basically you'd need to bribe a hell of a lot of people. And there's always somebody who won't be bought so what happens to them? They're killed by the government(s)? That's gotta be alot of unexplained deaths...
Read the Conspiracy Compendium. It's linked to in the FAQ. And it's not hard to kill people off if the government needs to.
There was another thread somewhere where the guy with the beard tried to figure out how much money it would cost to fool the whole planet.
I'm pretty sure he came to 40 people wanting $1,000,000 each per year.
First of all 40 people could NOT carry out this scam efficiently.
And second, I'd want a hell of alot more than $1,000,000. That's just over £500,000 and personally if i was gonna keep my mouth shut about something like this then I'd want a fair bit more than that.
It's forty people plus the leading conspirators. You would want more than a million dollars PER YEAR? Still, that was the bare minimum for fundings. Obviously, since it only rung up to half of a billion dollars a year and the conspiracy gets probably upwards of twenty billion, I don't see where the problem lies if people need some more cash.
By the way. I don't have a beard.
~D-Draw