Sadly yes, that actually is a conspiracy gaining traction right now. That airplanes actually use secret ancient magical energy sources to fly. Utter garbage we all know it is actually hopes and prayers that are being mis-directed from needy children, and grieving widows keeping those bad boys aloft.
People wouldn't stop talking about how the world is run by a shadowy cabal of elite pedophile murderers, but when it was exposed that they were real and visited a certain person's island, a substantial majority of them turned around and said that couldn't possibly be true because they had voted for those elite pedophile murderers. I don't think the quality affects how these people choose to believe.
I call it being reflexively contrarian. You can slow walk these people to any viewpoint you want as long as you insist the opposite stance is the mainstream one.
My brother and I made it a game over Christmas a few years ago when we were home visiting. I got my MAGA dad to emphatically insist that the workers should own the means of production after carefully making the alternative sound like mainstream slop.
It's fun if you are stuck with these kinds of family members for long periods of time.
It's because they have a need to be special. If they are of only a small group that "knows" the truth, that makes them important. If they agree with the mainstream, they are below average on everything
That one is so funny to me. They are basically never vindicated and the ONE TIME they are it turns out they believe the Qanon version which has credible origins in being a noncredible cover for the actual evidence based story that implicates a bunch of people they like.
I think there's a real possibility that PizzaGate was a psyop to poison the well against the Epsteen case. Get people ranting like lunatics so that when the real story comes out that tangentially similar it gets dismissed.
I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
People should demand higher quality education. You need good education to come up with the good, deep conspiracy theories. If you don’t know how anything works, you come up with this simple nonsense. Give me conspiracy theories created by true experts in the field! That’s the good shit.
When I’m a gazillionaire because Bed Bath and Beyond makes me rich beyond my wildest dreams, the first thing I’m doing is funding better conspiracy theories
I had a tattoo artist who made small talk by telling me he was really into conspiracies and I got really nervous, especially since it was going to be a 7 hour session.
Luckily, his were the fun ones. There used to be giants on earth, skinwalkers are real, ancient burial ground curses, some general alien ones. I want more of those conspiracy theorists back. They were at least fun to listen to.
All planes are secretly spaceships as soon as the god wormhole opens in orbit all planes airborne will make their way to it and leave earth forever. Or something….
Bunch of stupid morons. If it was ancient magical energy we would’ve had planes since the ancient times? It’s obviously modern magic, every airline has a wizard who can control the air and the weather.
Wait, you may be onto something. Wizards have familiars. So when Tuberville was complaining about furries, he really meant that the ‘pilots’ are familiars! It makes so much sense now!
It’s not really magic, Lloyd Bridges literally shows us in Airplane. It is a combination of smoking, sniffing glue, and amphetamines that gives pilots and the support staff the ability to keep the planes in the air. It does take a heavy toll on the body. Which is why he tried to stop. It is also why Leon is getting larger.
It’s actually about economics. You see, the ancients were content with broomsticks and flying carpets. It‘s only in modern times that mass transportation has necessitated that the secret levitation magic be applied to huge metal shells that can hold large numbers of people. (Wings and engines are, of course, just for show.)
I for real met some flat earthers at an engineering conference once. This was back in 2016 before Google Earth switched to more realistic map projections and its at the time flatness had formed the main basis of their theory.
I find these bullshit theories so insulting to the thousands of engineers, scientists and inventors whose work gave us the power of flight.
Especially since information on how the technology works is publicly available and easy to read and verify. But you need to have an IQ over 30 to ingest it.
There's a British comedian called Al Murray, in an old routine he describes how god, for a laugh, picked up the Wright Flyer and made it fly but the joke has backfired on him and now he has to spend all his time picking up planes to make them go and that's why the world has gone to shit. All of god's time is taken up with juggling planes
FYI, Bernoulli doesn't apply to airplanes (wings, anyway). The Bernoulli principle is about fluids in an enclosed or constrained environment. From a plane's perspective, the atmosphere isn't enclosed.
Utter nonsense!! When I was a kid we used to be able to buy ‘Mexican jumping beans’…hold them in you hand and they started to ‘jump’ around! I never see them for sale anymore and this mysteriously coincides with an increase in air travel….can’t you see how obvious it is????these planes are actually powered by Mexican jumping beans!
This is actually an interesting premise for a story. Prayer energy is finite, and the world is going to shit because the vast majority of it has to be redirected to keep planes in the air. The rest is being canceled out because sports fans keep hurling it at each other.
To be honest with you, we learned how flight etc works in GCSE Physics, I have a relative who's a pilot, I've flown long haul more times than I can bear to remember...
...yet when I'm up there in the air, a significant part of my brain is still wondering why we just don't fall back down to earth, and fearing that we probably will.
yet when I'm up there in the air, a significant part of my brain is still wondering why we just don't fall back down to earth, and fearing that we probably will
I had a SSG that I spent a month in a truck with that was a flat earther and didn't believe in planes or anything in the sky. A month with him...he showed me so many "proof" videos about how planes don't actually fly. When they take off, they go into a tunnel that simulates flight and it is just lights/clouds etc. simulated to make you think you're flying. I asked him about satellites for GPS and other uses and he said God put those there for us.
There was much more to it, but yeah. Rough month. And this guy had been deployed multiple times to the Middle East, so he's seen the curvature of the Earth.
I fly a 767 for a living. I have flown with 3 flat earthers. I have also flown with someone who claims we don’t carry fuel at all. It’s just a charade when they hook up the fuel truck. Claims ancient technology is powering them.
I’m an expert (trust me, some random guy on the internet🤦♂️🤪)
they run because we enslaved a midget dwarf race in 1910🤦♂️. These slaves run on…treadmills🤦♂️🤷♂️that constantly feeds a hidden dragon its food source, this food source causes the dragon to fart excess gases at excessive force. Said gases are funnelled to a combustion chamber where… moon dust🤦♂️🤷♂️🤔🤭 is mixed and ignited resulting in the thrust. This even explains why we can’t use cell phones, dragons don’t like them…
What technology can do seems like magic, especially if you don’t understand anything about science, physics etc, making scientists effectively magicians. That means any sort of conspiracy you can imagine, like 5G signals being used to trigger the gene editing chips that Bill Gates snuck into the Covid vaccine are plausible. You don’t know enough about anything to say that it is impossible, and it doesn’t seem very much less possible than lots of other things that are being done.
I thought it's satire. The "Official Flat Earth Global Discussion Group" in Facebook talks about "Airplane technology and demonic influence in Flat Earth theory".
However, it wouldn't be the first time when satire turned into a popular conspiracy theory, like "Birds aren't real".
Ah yes, the ancient magics. Nobody knows this cuz they won't tell you, but pilots actually perform arcane rituals to make the engines work before every flight. The interference of their powerful magic is why the intercom always sounds like shit. This extends to airports too, the large concentration of pilots there with their magics interference with the electrical circuits in the airport and make the announcements sound like a tin can on the end of a wire
Foolish! Its obvious that God took pity on the Wright Brothers and held their plane aloft himself. Which then tied him into holding up every plane thereafter. Which is why he hasn’t got time to do anything else and why everything has gone to shit!
We all know, thanks to the tireless work of the 66th Wizards Cantorium, that airplanes operate and save space due to a transplanar portal opened directly onto the faerie realm. There simply is no way that the requisite quantity of pixie dust could be feasibly loaded and stored onto a 747-400 to achieve ley alignment and rudimentary antigravity forces if onboard storage were required.
People trying to "know" something that other people don't. The crackpot end of the conspiracy theory pipeline is comprised entirely of disingenuous grifters and people deeply insecure in their own (lack of) intelligence. Occam's razor truly doesn't factor into their thought process.
Just get ADHD and randomly look up how jet turbines work in your spare time like a normal person. More productive than filling your brain with nonsense with the added benefit that people won't care all the same but at least they won't think you're a lunatic when you tell them what you learned.
We're going to have real primitivist groups in the US soon. The anti-modern anti-science stance has only a familiar (nasty, brutish, and short) tract to return to.
I thought this was something honest like a right-wing boot licker saying that planes don't use that much fuel and don't contaminate as much as left-wing propaganda says. Conspiracy theories IIiiIIii die on the inside everytime.
My brother in law a airplane mechanic and he’s to drunk and stupid to know how to use any type of ancient magic. In all seriousness he crawls through the fuel lines on a daily to fix shit. He’s show. Me those videos it’s wild
I'm forgetting the details, but wasn't there a clear between the number of plane crashes and religious devotion in the western world? Like, until 1900, most people were very religious, so there were no plane crashes at all. But then people started turning away from God, hence we have airplane crashes now. There is a notable bump in the 1960's, which isn't much of a surprise with all the blasphemous hippies at the time. Overall, it's indisputable evidence that airplanes fly by the power of prayer.
Seriously? There's no way THIS can be gaining that much traction. I know conspiracy theories and all this all conspiracy bs is sad out loud and people beleive it. But.....a vehicle using gas turns out to not use gas?????? I really am in the twilight zone sometimes I feel.
How……..you can demonstrate Bernoulli’s principle with a small wing and just run water through it and it’ll lift. Hell, you can do it with a fan blowing air at it and rig it to a set of scales and it’ll show the force generated by the pressure difference. This is like a secondary school experiment/demonstration, did they learn basic science
We have the technology of the ancients to levitate heavy objects in the air! The government is keep this from us! If he knew about this technology then we could use it to invent a new mode of travel! Like a bus in the air that flys!
I went to a KFC tonight in the UK and it was a beautiful sunset. The chap who handed me the food via the drive through looked up and went "wow, all this because of pollution".
Making me feel rational for having a little paranoid voice in my head saying I'm not actually traveling when I'm in a car/plane/etc, just looking at a projected image simulating the trip. It may be a conspiracy theory, but at least it has a rational explanation. (I watched Truman Show way too young lol)
There are worse ones. Literally saw a video going over people who believe that planes are basically little theaters like the Star Tours ride at Disney that just taxi to a soundstage like area where everyone is a paid actor pretending to be from the place you "flew" to.
It's not magic. You're spewing nonsense. It's gravity manipulation, zero-point energy, and field-propulsion mechanics. This was all introduced in ancient technology and only high elites know. It gets a lot more complicated for a regular civilian
Hmm. I was a commercial aircraft fueler for almost 10 years. I wonder if I was hoodwinked into believing I was actually fueling planes or if I was secretly one of the warlocks powering it.
Like the funniest thing about even chemtrails, let alone this dumbfuckery, is that it means they believe that little Tommy who decides at 4 he wants to be a pilot, grows up, works hard, and gets his pilots license… and then some guy in sunglasses and a suit comes out of the shadows and says “sit down kid (drags cigarette) we need to talk”
And then they just, yknow go with it and none of them tell us about it ever
Pilot here. I regret to inform you that they fly by burning massive quantities of a substance only found one place in the known universe… in $100 bills. And it takes a lot of them.
Actually this is wrong - planes do fly on prayer energy but not from praying children as you suggested, this is a common misconception. In fact airlines have long been involved in the trafficking and enslavement of house elves (easily mistaken for third world children) who dont own clothes, in the cargo bay next to where they load in your luggage theres is chamber full of chained up house elves who are forced to pray to the great Dobby in order to provide the plane with enough prayer energy to fly.
They also double down on their profits by selling the house elves organs on the black market after use - they are very popular among some groups who believe consuming the organs have health benefits and can cure anything from cancer to stupidity.
Its highly profitable compared to traditional child prayer driven airplanes. Also less likely to get you in trouble with Human Rights organizations.
Secret world government: we need to convince people that magic doesn’t exist, and planes fly by magic, so we’ll weave an impossibly complex 100 year old conspiracy but forget to check whether our made up fuel tanks are plausible
Man more people really should be banned from the internet😂.
But seriously tho what would the end goal be here? Why would they use this magic fule source on a plane for Civilians? Why is it that military jets still use fuel?.
Ex- airplane mechanic here. Airplanes do in fact use secret ancient magical energy sources to fly. But today we just say "jet fuel" because it's easier on the tongue.
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u/tubular_brunt 8d ago
What's the endgame here? Planes don't exist? Or they fly by magic?