this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
106 points (100.0% liked)
chat
8185 readers
247 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I fucking knew it was crabs
My favourite part about this joke theory is that it's an actual conspiracy theory from the time just turned up to 11. KAL007's passengers were just... Gone when they recovered the plane after it had been shot down and the two competing theories as to why the passengers were missing were that they'd been eaten by crabs, or that there were never any passengers and it was a fake flight designed to provoke a military response from the Soviet Union to test its readiness.
I laugh at the crab attack so I don't have to cry at the war attempt.
Interestingly, it's basically the reason that civilian access to systems like Glonass and GPS happened: if the pilots hadn't miscalculated the flight path and had been able to accurately calculate their position during the flight, the tragedy would have been avoided. The proliferation of satellite navigation as a public good has prevented hundreds of events like this since. Pretty wild.
wow the crab theory sounds totally insufficient to explain this, no luggage... this is a weird one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007_alternative_theories
IIRC, they had a pretty weird flight path that seemed to use magnetic compass to keep course instead of a shortest path like commerial airlines use. Someone could have fucked with their equipment in Ancoridge.
Me, resurrecting an old Soviet conspiracy theory for fun
what the fuck . anti crab racism.
Crabs are people! Legit or quit!
Fine but they better keep those big meaty claws away from me