It’s a curious thing. I’m not dismissing any of their claims, but I find it a bit interesting that they can so easily uncover everything that the government doesn’t want you to know when it’s hidden for a reason.

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    101·
    10 months ago

    Echelon was not so much a conspiracy theory as a sad game of telephone where increasingly disturbed people projected their increasingly distorted paranoias onto an actual thing.

    Same with HAARP. Yes, it as exists. No, It does not do that. Or that. Or even that.

      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        10 months ago

        The power comes from the sun. HAARP modulates the magnetic flux from the sun like the base of a giant transistor.

        At least that’s what my local conspiracy theorist told me when I raised the same point. It’s complete bunk of course, but it sounds plausible enough for anyone who is not an atmospheric scientist. Not any less plausible to the average wing nut than the whole story about carbon dioxide emission spectra in the infrared and global warming anyway. There is science words in there.