That’s what i find one of the most annoying habits from most glober’s over here.... a constant appeal to supposed ‘rationality’ only when it supports official storylines.
And what are these huge worldwide conspiracy theories if not an attempt to make sense of all the nonsense in world?
I guess it must be quite comforting to think there’s some grand design behind everything, and events are orchestrated by a well oiled machine that knows what it’s doing. Not unlike belief in God, everything happens for a reason.
The alternative of course is far more worrying. That the people at the top are just a bunch of self interested incompetent arseholes, more worried about staying in power than doing what’s best for the people.
Did The US really almost go to war with Iran the other day because the current president is obsessed with undoing everything the last one did? Stopping only when he realised last minute it might look bad?
Is the UK really about to commit economic suicide by crashing out of the EU with no deal?
Did the superpowers actually come within a gnat’s bollock of blowing up the world during the Cuban missile crisis (and other less well known incidents).
Sadly, I think the answer is yes. There’s no hidden power behind the curtain, the world is actually just run by wankers.
Scary thought isn’t it? I’m not surprised people make up elaborate tales to try and find meaning in it all.
Edit: I guess I should address your example
And when NASA destroys thousends of original tapes with Apollo 11 telemetry data , then it’s perfectly acceptable that no one knows anything about who, what , where and when...
It just vanished one day and we found out decades later...’ but these things happen you know......’
Reused is the word you are looking for. And really so what?
Reels and reels of expensive computer tape was wiped because nobody thought it would be useful to keep once the missions were over.
Why would they keep them? They don’t make for very exciting museums pieces compared to all the other souvenirs they had left over.
They would be easy to fake anyway. If the tapes did exist and data from them uploaded to the internet, would that convince anyone the moon landings were real? I very much doubt it. Thry’d just be another thing for everyone to argue over.
So in the end, it makes absolutely no difference if they were kept or wiped.