I'm all about conspiracy theories that are floating around, stuff like JFK's assassination, the moon landing, Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, Elvis being alive, 9/11 being an inside job, etc. However, when I say that I'm "all about" them, I don't necessarily mean that I believe all the crack pot theories floating around, but I do enjoy the idea that there could be something a lot more sinister or mysterious behind important events that have occurred in the past. I have no problem with most people when it comes to spouting off their theories regarding this type of thing, one of my good friends brother actually runs a website and has a group dedicated to stuff similar to this. And while sometimes I think these people are crazy, I do enjoy listening to all the theories people come up with and the supposed "facts" to back them up and even when the real facts come out, they still believe that what they are saying is true.
Recently we celebrated the 40th anniversary of the day that man walked on the moon on July 20th, 1969 and of course there are a lot of people out there that don't believe that we ever made it there. They believe that it was all staged and filmed on a set somewhere as a ploy to convince the world that the US was the first to make the amazing journey. People have claimed that things like the flag waving when it was first planted, footprints on the moon's surface, shadows not lining up, and all sorts of other things that you can see in the NASA videos are just elaborate fakes created by the government, and I wanted to believe this stuff for a while. How interesting would it be if it actually came to light that we never landed on the moon and it was all just a big hoax? I think that would be more interesting than the actual landing on the moon itself. The fact that our government was able to keep this secret for so long and had the entire world fooled, personally I think that would be amazing. And that's just it, do you know how many people would have to have stayed quiet for 40 years? And not that they are the end-all in reliable testing, but the Myth Busters did an entire episode dedicated to all things moon and determined that everything that conspiracy theorists claimed were faked, are actually how things would react on the surface of the moon; the footprints, the waving flag and even the shadows. And even recently there were pictures taken of the surface showing the equipment left behind by astronauts during those missions.
So while I don't believe that the missions to the moon were faked, I still enjoy reading about stuff like this and continuing to question the facts, like how come we haven't been back to the moon since 1972? And why is Elvis' middle name spelled wrong on his headstone? And this kind of leads me into the title topic regarding our current President, Obama.
