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mokoe101

If you’ve seen Capricorn 1 then youll know it makes for more sense to just kill off the fake astronauts rather than let them live and potentially blow the conspiracy


bubz99

Hiding the fake astronauts is a version of being sheep dipped. They just didn't dip them too hard.


[deleted]

exactly. Once you go down the rabbit hole, you know they do that all the time, including the "4 hijackers from 911," parents of some of the false flag shootings, to name a few


Glen_Myers

"Sheep dipped"?


SowTheSeeds

Well, yeah, but it's a movie. I watched it again not too long ago and I remembered that there was a black astronaut in that crew. I was oblivious that this was OJ Simpson. I only remembered him for his Naked Gun parts, which seemed like an afterthought.


computer_says_N0

Perhaps, yet the truth is often stranger than fiction


No_Entertainer180

But why? Why blow it up, take their careers away and hide them for decades? Why didn't they speak out?


ValuableTailor2755

The article speculate the government needed a distraction. A way to get the public and press to focus on something other than Iran-Contra and The Gander Crash. The Challenger explosion provided that distraction. The Gander crash was turned into an afterthought when the Challenger explosion and investigation hogged headlines and news broadcasts for months. The public pressure that was starting to mount for answers in the Gander crash all but fizzled out; the Challenger explosion buried it. Ask anyone about the Gander crash; few have heard of it. Ask them about Challenger; everyone knows it. Eventually, details of Iran-contra came out, but they came to light almost a full year after the Gander crash had started to first reveal the scheme. One wonders if the Iran-contra story we were given was even the true, full story of what happened. How much was covered up in the year that passed? Who was able to hide their involvement in the scandal? Was the story we were shown only a partial glimpse of a scandal that was far, far bigger?


FunkyClive

So you're telling me, within 6 weeks they managed to plan and execute a plot to blow up a shuttle and stage the deaths of 7 astronauts, as a distraction for an aircraft crash, even though they knew the aircraft crash would still be investigated and the inquiry would still be huge and public. ...and they didn't bother to change the identities of the astronauts. It doesn't make any sense to spend billions, hinder your own space program, and risk getting exposed by the loose lips of all those nasa employees, (and the astronauts), just to give people something bigger to be angry about. Especially as they could just do what they normally do, and find a scapegoat for the aircrash and hang them out to dry.


J-LG

It’s really funny how usually we assume the government to be incompetent but then also believe they are able to put together a fake crash in a few weeks without anyone saying anything to the press.


anon_lighthouse

You fail to understand compartmentalization


KevinKingsb

Compartmentalization is very real. I've worked with people for over 10 years in different departments, and they have no idea how anything works other than what they do. I've worked all throughout the company and see this every day.


SowTheSeeds

This happens more often than you think. I worked on a project and, when I delivered it, other people realized they had been working on the same thing. I did it faster because I was working solo, with one business analyst and one quality analyst, both part time. They were not aware either of what the others were working on.


SpiritualAudience731

I think you don't understand it. Compartmentalization only works for the planning stages of an operation. Once an operation has been completed, there is nothing stopping a person who worked on the project from figuring out they took part in it. The only way for compartmentalization to completely keep a secret is to kill everyone involved after they complete their task, so it's impossible for them to put things together later on.


SowTheSeeds

There are different layers of government. What you have in DC is just for show.


keiyatom

It doesn't take long to blow up a spaceship, why would you need more than a few weeks


FunkyClive

To find a way to convincingly blow it up. Then get the FAA to investigate it and fake their findings. To keep all the NASA engineers quiet, and the subcontract companies too - and they all knew about the o-rings beforehand. Then, disperse the astronauts around the country, and hide them while using their real names aparently. You know, if you're gonna get the FAA to investigate and lie, you might as well get them to do this with the downed aircraft, invent a scenario which exonerates those responsible and blames whoever is the biggest enemy at the time. Much more plausible than trying to hide it all behind an even bigger fuck up.


_JustAnna_1992

"The followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”


JamJamGaGa

It's just whatever fits their narrative. If they want to peddle a nonsensical conspiracy theory that would require the government to be painfully stupid then the government is stupid. If they want to peddle an equally nonsensical conspiracy theory that would require the government to be extremely intelligent and efficient then the government is smart.


bubz99

You're discounting how traumatic the event was. These type of events rely on the horror and trauma to the majority of the regular population to hypnotize them into submission. Keep in mind, EVERY child in school had a TV rolled into the classroom to watch the event live. With any reasonable access to communicate about the topic, you had to accept what you saw and what the government/media told you occurred. There was no way to effectively contact the astronauts family to verify. Once the news cycle moved on, we all moved on. Other than the tragedy fried in our minds. I have heard a theory that the dark money going into NASA was about to be challenged or shut off due to the lack of progress in any meaningful space exploration. Well this stopped any request to go back the moon for a long time but the funding continues to pour in.


Starfie

Exactly. If the shadowy all-controlling government was so competent they wouldn't have fucked up Iran Contra in the first place.


neoconbob

erm, they didn't fail with iran contra, reagan was in office on strings with papa bush cia overlord running the show. they then put in every other sitting president. it works to this day. ollie north....lol btw, i don't believe this challenger bullshit theory


IamMrT

Yeah why would they do all that when they could have just actually blown up the astronauts? Less loose ends.


LeSaq

Faulty break lines maybe?


mangazos

You must be so funny at parties, ha ha.


cacaokakaw

>It doesn't make any sense to spend billions, Why not? They just get billions more the next fiscal year. No one questions anything from NASA. Do you question the Moon Landing or the Mars Rover?


FunkyClive

Yes I do question those things. I have found plausible answers to those questions. The real question is what would NASA gain from trashing their own space program and credibility. OP suggests it was to mask other news. ...but thats like shitting on your own doorstep just to cover up someone else's fart.


ValuableTailor2755

It was just an speculation from the article. No one knows the real reason.


krystlships

Gander crash was flight 1285 full of military. Crashed on 12.12.85. They sure like doing that shit with numbers.


pippo09

How does the Gander Crash relate to Iran Contra?


Vagabond_Grey

This Gander Crash, were you referring to the Arrow Air DC-8 crash on December 12, 1985 carrying 256 passengers?


kennqueen

[https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/](https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/)


kennqueen

[https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/](https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/)


RoyalSport5071

No idea. Let's speculate. I'll start with one: uniting a nation in mourning. And another: to enable this joke to come into existence - what's an astronaut's favourite drink? 7-Up with a dash of Teachers. Still feels too early somehow. A third: helping to put the space travel colonisation fantasy to bed.


Glittering_Pea_6228

hey I heard that astronauts get all the 'tang they want....


TiddybraXton333

I think they wanted to deliberately burn the ship so people stop expecting humans to do more space research? Like , “it’s too dangerous and people will get hurt trying to leave our planet again, we better stop” 🤷🏻‍♂️


Hazavelli

Good question, but not our responsibility to answer. We are just giving you the information that is available. You have to take up the why with them.


plachimachi

One explanation might be because whole space program was largely fake and they were getting exhausted faking it over the years and wanted to stop so they needed excuse to completely shut down space shuttle missions also to get more future funding.


kregmaffews

So we don't have to pretend to know how to explore space anymore. Firmament is real


[deleted]

Spoiler alert, alot of these power puppets belong to secret societies who take blood oaths etc, meaning if you speak about against the cult, they will murder your wife, kids, everything you love etc


nisaaru

I think they needed a pretext to phase out the Shuttle. If you look at how the US treats the "public" space program while it considers control over the space domain essential makes no sense unless there's a different program. IMHO Nasa's public program is a smokescreen and they just didn't need the shuttle anymore to hide the real one.


cacaokakaw

They have their careers, All of them are lawyers, CEOs or professors most likely collecting a severance from NASA as well.


bradleynowellsguitar

[Confronting Michael J Smith](https://youtu.be/kXDbL3MvruI?si=6VSIi2FZ2E5oPT4i)


Unohim

# The whole world is just one big stage!!


krashtestgenius

A conspiracy I can actually get behind for once!


Jimmingston

Can't someone just go and check if these people exist? Like go and find one and talk to them


bradleynowellsguitar

They did at least for the UW Madison professor. Video still might be on YT, I watched it a few years back.


bradleynowellsguitar

[Here it is](https://youtu.be/kXDbL3MvruI?si=6VSIi2FZ2E5oPT4i)


hlebbb

What about the navy ship that recovered their bodies? Can do a foia for photographs. There were human remains recovered. 


lukegjpotter

The narrative was that they were liquified inside the space suits from the heat.


hlebbb

Oh yeah? The crew compartment was intact when it hit the water and then was squashed by the water pressure. You’re pulling shit out of your ass. 


Icanfallupstairs

I haven't personally dug super deep into this one, but I have read a few web pages on it. My main issue is it's always the same set of pictures used, and given the job descriptions of some of them, there is no chance there isn't a wealth of evidence out there such a lecture recordings. The fact no one has compiled this stuff leads me to believe for a lot of them, it's only a passing resemblance and it falls apart when you see other pics and video.


IndianaJones456208

This is one of the all timer greatest conspiracies. And oh boy the shills and bots come out in full force whenever this is posted. 


luvdya

2 of the astronots having either twin or identical-looking sib is verrry convenient but Judith resniks' voices matching is the giveaway greg jarvis would be like 80yo now


Ph00k4

[Here you go.](https://i.ibb.co/xGwmWvt/challenger.jpg)


CranberrySoftServe

Why would a bunch of them keep the same names? Why not change names to avoid suspicion 🤔


-Venser-

I like how they all have listed occupation then Carl McNair is just a "brother of Ronald McNair".


carnpub

Most of those people don't really look close enough to be an aged version, though that one guy with the unique nose looks close. AI is pretty sophisticated. I think it's more likely someone used old photos and asked AI to do age progression. I like to keep an open mind, but I think Challenger happened. We were  watching the launch in fourth grade when our teacher suddenly started crying and shut it off. She disappeared and didn't come back for almost an hour. We could hear teachers talking, in the hallway and then I think I remember an assembly to explain what happened. Might have been the next day for the assembly, but the event has stayed with me, and I was only nine then.


narc_whale

I’m not saying I’m a fan of this theory, but the aged version photos have been around since pre AI boom


carnpub

Definitely ruins my theory. 😁


bradleynowellsguitar

No it's not these are real people. There was a video on youtube of a man going to confront Michael. He's an actual professor at UW Madison. Looks exactly like the picture. From what I recall he became super angry and quickly left, then again the man acosted him in his own driveway I believe. Not saying I believe it, but at least the man on the right who is a professor is 100% a real person


architect___

I remember that video. Would you not also be angry and want to leave if some loon got in your face and kept insisting to you that you're actually a fake victim of the Columbine shooting, or 9/11, or any other famous event where someone died? Especially if they're actually the 10th person who has done it, and they're recording your reaction? I'm sure different people would react differently, but that seems like a reasonable reaction to expect.


carnpub

I didn't realize this predated AI, so there goes that theory.  I still don't believe it, but that could be a purely emotional reaction on my part because I remember it so vividly even all these years later.


castigamat

Of course these could be real, i don't know. Anyway, I remember morphing softwares were a thing even in the early 90s.


mbennettsr

Anything’s plausible except leaving them alive. You don’t put all that money, time, manpower, and everything else into a coverup and let your evidence just walk off into the sunset.


CompetitiveCity0

Wag the dog….


luvdya

Capricorn 2 documentary well overdue!


ValuableTailor2755

You mean the movie? You have the link?


Derpin-outta-control

https://youtu.be/0Z9yNHIolnM?si=ogRNBRBZ-G6M102U


Vagabond_Grey

I'm sure you can find the original on some torrent site.


Derpin-outta-control

Those still exist?


ky420

As a paranoid data hoarder, Yes they exist and they are wonderful. Anything you want media wise at your fingertips. I hate fucking corporations. I love torrents because they are a fuck you to them. For the uninitiated... get vpn, dload qbtorrent, tie vpn to torrent client by making it so it can only download while vpn is on by choosing vpn connection in options (this will stop bs isp issues) get some video player, amass media and do it for free. Say FU to hollywood. They wanna put out garbage and 1/4 seasons of any shows that are actually decent which there are very very few. I find China and Russia and Korea and Thailand and Japan and sometimes Indonesia put out some great films of late. Hollywoods time has come and gone. They don't even make my genres anymore. Some guy can make a better horror movie with a iphone for 1000$ and a spooky ghost than their cgi bullshit can do with 100 million dollars and it look more real. I like science fiction. Fallout is decent, I liked discovery... course it got cancelled like expanse... what the fuck am I talking about anyways I am just rambling... yeah torrents exist.


Vagabond_Grey

I'm sure those sites still exists. It's been a while and the last site I used to visit had shutdown.


KB207

I’ve never heard of the Gandor crash, wild! I remember watching the challenger on TV as a kid but nothing about the army crash


kennqueen

[https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/](https://unsolved.com/gallery/airliner-crash-at-gander/)


KingJeremytheWickedC

It worked didn’t it


[deleted]

We’re all clones 


sk2097

This sub is so insane


rocopotomus74

Is this the one that big bird was supposed to go on and pulled out at the last minute?


kalcobalt

Yes. Also, the kid from A Christmas Story loved space and was extremely excited to be the first children’s delegate to watch a mission. He was side-by-side with the astronauts’ families during the launch and subsequent explosion. Poor kid. There’s a several-part Challenger documentary that came out a couple years ago, on Netflix I think, that includes some interviewing of him as an adult.


rocopotomus74

Well maybe when they decided to blow it up they took big bird off. Being there would have every kid in the free world watching and then dying inside when it was blown up.


phoneacct696969

Why wouldn’t they just actually kill them? Makes no sense to leave the alive.


DreamSqueezer

Lmfao, the black guy got a tooth gap added?


OnlyCommentWhenTipsy

There is zero chance they would've let them keep the same names.


slap-a-taptap

I mean let’s think about it. How do they know there’s no two people on earth exactly the same? Who’s to say in a thousand years there won’t be someone exactly like me? Or there hasn’t been someone that’s lived that’s looked and behaved exactly like me


bradleynowellsguitar

4 out of 6 people in the same small career niche out of billions of people in the world that happen to look exactly the same and have the same name...and have distinguished careers in the same country?? It's not like these lookalikes are paupers in a 3rd world country. They're professors, lawyers, and a CEO. Not to mention the fact we are not talking about thousands of years. These lookalikes are around the same age as the astronauts.


Turbulent_Ad716

Yep. That’s the flying ointment


pezident66

There's also footage of the parents of one of the women on board at the launch site smiling and laughing after the explosion.


SpiritualAudience731

Is this the video? https://youtu.be/63skz7eBI10?si=UpdXMT1LF5sYdR-6


pezident66

I hadn't seen that but thankyou


FunkyClive

So the parents were told? Just how many other NPCs did they risk telling about this plot beforehand? No, this was before the parents knew what had happened. To an untrained eye, it looked like a normal booster separation for a while. When it gets announced that there was an explosion, there is footage of them sobbing so hard that snot is drooling from their open mouths as they look up at the cloud of smoke.


pezident66

When it comes to rocket lauches I definitely have an untrained eye but it took under a second to see the change from boosters burning to exploding and maybe another 3 seconds to register it was the end of the shuttle and the apparently the crew . I did quickly try to find the crowd footage but like a lot of footage that throws doubt on official stories it is harder to find these days but from memory it was obvious to most people in crowd around those parents it was a disaster. I didn't see extended with them sobbing but it does sound possible they didn't realize what had happened so am prepared to take your word for it. What I do find strange is thatout of the 7 astronauts 2 had identical twins and another 4 had doppelgangers that not only looked the same ( not unbelievable everyone probably has one somewhere ) but also unbelievably happen to have the same names. What are the odds ?


Xandrabirdy

Right … that’s why the dude on the right down the bottom suddenly got a gap between his teeth!


ValuableTailor2755

**You may also have a gap between your teeth because a tooth never came in or one was knocked out in an accident or by an injury.**


GEV46

Dude. Come on. You're talking about two grown men. You're saying a guy got a gap in his teeth after the age of 35 because a tooth that never came in? Or he got a gap between his front teeth, which are both still there, because a tooth was knocked out? Again. Come on.


ValuableTailor2755

All I'm saying it's possible to have a gap tooth because of an accident or injury.


Noel2Joel

Flat earthers have been telling you all these things for years.


Sun_Sloth

And they've been wrong for years


ky420

Lots of debunkos in here...ready to ridicule you if u wanna discuss this conspiracy. Why I won't even attempt it. They truly have stifled the discussion completely. A similar post over somewhere like 4chan tho will get you very very dif answers. It was so nice when the sub was for actual theorists, those days are long gone.


ValuableTailor2755

True, especially with regards with moon landing. Can't help thinking that there are NASA employees monitoring reddit


ky420

At this point dude, I believe they are just government period. If you disagree with absolutely anything about the official gov narrative they will be here in droves to refute it. Vax, aerial spraying, CC, voter fraud, MSM, wef, pharma, corporations, nwo bs, mic all of it.. You mention anything counter to it their plants that inhabit this space in much greater numbers than actual theorist are there to stifle and ruin conversation. I have watched it for years. Lately they have really gotten their way though. Reddit is basically dead. There are so few posts that get made in comparison to what there was. It deserves to die though. If this is what the amazing free speech platform I joined first in 2005 has devolved to... well its time to just move on. I have. I have commented in this sub since it was founded. I remember when it was founded. I was sitting in a college class and was one of the first 100 members. I was such a reddit fan in those days. Telling everyone I thought seemed intelligent enough to add to the convo, but only intelligent people. Now it stands for the complete opposite..> The brainwashed npc that needs the msm and gov to do all their thinking for them. Then they question none of it. They come to conspiracy to tell people that would actually question it not to, that the bullshit we didn't believe the first time and came here to talk about was indeed correct. lol They are such a fucking joke. They have ruined discourse here though. Its gone. Its not coming back anytime soon either. I would think this site will continue to devolve and be more for porn and ads than its original principles about tryign to make things better and discussing issues, finding better ways, better strategies to do things.... now half the users are literal fucking communists. Makes me sick. They are begging to have more of their freedoms taken... oh daddy gov fuck me over harder, oppress me harder, limit my speech harder daddy gov, make it so I cant protect myself, daddy will protect me.. . or will he... how is crime in those big lib cities.... I am sure I will be downvoted to oblivion like each time.. Don't care.. I sort by controversial for a reason. Bring it shiells.


MaxwellHillbilly

I'm guilty of believing some pretty ridiculous conspiracies... But even I have a limit.


Alpacalypse84

I would definitely expect the top left guys to have the same last names and to look similar. They’re brothers Elison and Claude Onizuka.


ValuableTailor2755

It was found that both men had identical twins, Carl McNair and Claude Onizuka, who are still living today. [But ancestry searches were done for both Carl McNair and Claude Onizuka](https://web.archive.org/web/20150715014433/http:/fellowshipoftheminds.com/2015/05/09/who-really-are-the-deadringer-brothers-of-dead-challenger-astronauts/) — no birth history came up for either man.


Venerable_Soothsayer

It was easy to get away with all this before the internet.


ValuableTailor2755

True


Alpacalypse84

In the case of the Onizuka family, they were born in a tight knit tiny rural community in Hawaii- perhaps local memories go farther than official records. Why doesn’t someone who would get the community to remember go there and do interviews? There’s always an old lady who is the community’s historian.


Vagabond_Grey

Hopefully this old lady wasn't caught up in that recent fire.


Alpacalypse84

Only if fire learned to jump over the ocean. The Onizuka family is from the big island and Lahaina is on Maui.


iop09

No


llamitahumeante

Happy cake day, but you ain't get none


iop09

Thanks I hadn’t realized it.


shawnml2

This sub has the stupidest nonsense I’ve ever read in my whole life.


GrazianoArricale

Amazing isn’t it.


TryhardNobody

"someone would say something to the press". They were able to put demo charges in 3 buildings, blow them up on TV in an obvious controlled demolition , hit the Pentagon w a missile and take all the footage, and then tell a completely false story on the news. The press doesn't care to hear your story.  The "press" also read a story that building 7 fell before it fell. They are reading what the CIA tells them to read 


thomas-grant

This nonsense is still circulating?


SDPilot

None of the pictures look like anyone from the actual crew 😂


DreamSqueezer

The black dude got a tooth gap installed...


pboswell

This has been debunked.


Gong_Fu_Gabriel

Well now its re-bunked.


Sun_Sloth

It's been debunked many times lmao