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28th November 2022, 08:45 AM | #1 |
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Question on the theory of bases on Mars?
When did this conspiracy first begin?
That the USA or 'earth' had bases on Mars? |
28th November 2022, 11:44 AM | #2 |
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So, we didn't land on the moon, but built a base on Mars.
Those NASA dudes are cunning af. |
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28th November 2022, 01:27 PM | #3 |
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This is new to me but it probably started shortly after the face/pyramids on mars stuff from the viking missions.
The internet says it started in 2014 with a random caller to Art Bell's show claiming to have witnessed footage of an astronaut on mars. ETA, you've got to love Richard Hoagland. Among other things, he claims pairdolia isn't a real thing. I'm not sure how he explains kids looking for shapes in the clouds. |
28th November 2022, 01:40 PM | #4 |
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Soon Solomon Epstein will develop his new drive and they'll declare independence from earth and form the Martian Congressional Republic, ushering in about a century of cold war between the Inyalowda. Not that that will stop both sides from exploiting the Beltalowda.
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28th November 2022, 06:59 PM | #5 |
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I think this one was floated in the mid-1980s. Probably gained momentum thanks to a caller into Art Bell.
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28th November 2022, 09:48 PM | #6 |
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28th November 2022, 10:10 PM | #7 |
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Wasn't H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" basically about Mars bases? Not human bases but Martian ones. Late 1800's / early 1900's?
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28th November 2022, 10:12 PM | #8 |
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there is a base.
it grows potatoes. I saw it in a documentary. |
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28th November 2022, 11:55 PM | #9 |
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29th November 2022, 04:11 AM | #10 |
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29th November 2022, 04:30 AM | #12 |
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Aah Hoaxland, still around milking money from the stupid.
Naturally he's been all over Artemis, claiming the live feeds prove his claims that there are massive artificial structures on the lunar side. https://www.theothersideofmidnight.c...ancient-domes/ The evidence for this being..erm... |
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29th November 2022, 04:33 AM | #13 |
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29th November 2022, 06:21 AM | #14 |
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29th November 2022, 09:48 AM | #15 |
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There are grifters everywhere preying on the stupid that believe we are not alone and will pay for speeches to that effect. Rather like Marcus Allen and his Moon Hoax seminars attract individuals who want to believe Apollo was fake and pay for his presentations.
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29th November 2022, 09:55 AM | #16 |
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29th November 2022, 10:53 AM | #17 |
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29th November 2022, 11:59 AM | #18 |
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That Israeli space security guy claimed there was on back in 2020:
https://slate.com/culture/2020/12/ma...t-further.html Here's a story from 2011: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43299687 I recall the subject came up at a meeting of our local UFO Discussion Group (before I was kicked out). Ironically, nobody believed it. This was 1997. I think it started around the same time as the Chem-Trail thing. |
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29th November 2022, 01:18 PM | #19 |
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29th November 2022, 01:46 PM | #20 |
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There were couple of times the guest would say something so clearly self evidently wrong that I just couldn't imagine anyone buying anything they had to say. The time Hoagland just dismissed paradoila was one. Every living human has experienced it, anyone listening should have immediately gone, "wait, what?" He even explained what it was before claiming it was just made up. Seriously, does hoagland actually think that's Jesus in the toast and fluffy bunnies in the sky?
The other was a guest talking about the evils of flouride and as an aside casually referenced, "the debunked germ theory of disease". If Art even noticed, he didn't miss a beat. |
29th November 2022, 02:38 PM | #21 |
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Yep the chem-trail thing was often right there along with the mars base stuff. '97 sounds about right and for me it would often come up when looking at discussions about Tesla and the Philadelphia experiment. One of my coworkers here was always looking at a site I think called...(just a word of caution our work web policies, now, won't permit access to that site)
educateyourself.org Which has just about every CT you could ever imagine as if it were gospel. |
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30th November 2022, 09:23 AM | #22 |
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Ah so a general agreement for 97 - or so?
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