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What are the best conspiracy theories out there? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not a conspiracy theory guy but I seen the post on 9/11 on no stupid questions and it seemed more fleshed out than I expected.

So what are conspiracy theories that turned out to be true?

And what are the most believable conspiracy theories out there?

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[+] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Huh Edmond Halley, big claim.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The only thing I know Edmund Halley from is an audio drama I listen to. Is there a conspiracy surrounding this astronomer?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No it's just he's a very famous man. It's like saying before Stephen Hawkins died he had a conspiracy theory.

Though really it would me more like Einstein saying quantum mechanics is wrong. It's just a scientist making a hypothesis and then being wrong about it. But the fact it started by such a famous person is kinda cool.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Halley

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Edmond Halley from the Magnus archives is much cooler. He was forcibly drowned in a pool of absolute darkness belonging to a cult he was apart of and absorbed an embodiment of nyctophobia which he used to swap bodies for centuries effectively achieving immortality until he could somehow find a way to darken the sun. Real Edmond Halley is still cool though