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Is something big going on… conspiracy theory related

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Thisisbig · 29/03/2023 10:41

Ok hear me out….

the following things have put me a little bit on edge:

  • emergency alert trial from government (yes I know it’s been spoken about for years)
  • a few asteroids flying “close” and reported in press
  • A few solar/planet events… eg holes in sun creating solar winds, northern lights being so far down south, weird planetary alignments
  • nasa being able to defect the path of an asteroid in the last 6 months
  • the constant threat of nuclear war
  • chatter a few months ago about weird spy balloons and possibility of aliens?!

I can’t help but shake the feeling that some people “higher up” know something that us little folk don’t know yet and that we are being primed.

I am fully prepared to be told I’m crackers! 🤣

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CheshireCat1 · 29/03/2023 12:37

I think it’s another dead cat thrown on the table to distract us from being livid about everything else that’s going on. 😊
I wouldn’t worry about it, should have been set up years ago.

DogInATent · 29/03/2023 12:37

countingallthseconds · 29/03/2023 12:26

The DM was on about asteroids the other day. Nobody else was, it wasn't news. Sun spots are very common.

We're entering a more active period of the Solar Cycle. It's looking a bit more active than recent solar cycles have been and more active than was forecast, But still within normal levels. But a solar cycle is a lot longer than both the DM news cycle and the memory span of their journalists/readers so they forget these things occur. It's good news for radio enthusiasts though.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/content/space-weather-enthusiasts-dashboard

Mummyford · 29/03/2023 12:39

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This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines.

That they all know Babyroobs, apparently. Should we extrapolate something from that? Because it would be as valid as your heavy handed hints.

SleepingStandingUp · 29/03/2023 12:39

HappyHolidai · 29/03/2023 10:45

Think you might need to find something absorbing to do with your time. Have you considered getting a job?

Do you have proof that anyone who questions if a conspiracy is true is unemployed, or is that just part of the conspiracy to invalidate their thoughts?

Better a bit crackers than a rude cow.

Hersetta427 · 29/03/2023 12:39

Are you prone to beleiving bizarre conspircies that you have read on the internet? If so perhaps you should take a break from the internet before you take a break from reality.

Logicoutofthewindow · 29/03/2023 12:40

HibiscusAndDew · 29/03/2023 12:17

I haven’t mentioned the ‘vax’ and didn’t intend too. I haven’t mentioned the internet either. I’m saying in later 2022/23 in my circle, people I know to ring or talk to, I’ve suddenly known a number. Which really has surprised me. Anyone would be unnnerved at losing colleagues or friends, or extendedfamily member’s partners/ children in a bunch of similar events

Others make that stretch and then it unnerves people'. It appears to be a growing theme on social media where people are saying about sudden deaths and others make the leap to vax etc. Sadly people die of a variety of things and if you have a few people near you it can feel like something is going on. I think when people around you die it triggers all sorts of feelings and reassessment of life...

Whoiscomingtosaveyou · 29/03/2023 12:40

Nothing is “going on”. The world has always been like this.

Zuffe · 29/03/2023 12:41

Asteroids !!!!

WTF !?!? - I listened to the radio last night and must have misheard. I thought they said haemorrhoids! I’ve only gone and stocked up on thirteen crates of Anusol from Amazon. Now I can’t pay my gas bill!

PopcornPoppingInAPan · 29/03/2023 12:41

WandaWonder · 29/03/2023 10:50

I thought the chips moved from the vaccine to missing socks?

GOD THE MISSING SOCKS!!!!!! 😖😭😫🤯😱

darjeelingrose · 29/03/2023 12:42

You need to get a life. Or just a hobby. There's crap going on in the world, it doesn't mean there is a conspiracy.

Thisisbig · 29/03/2023 12:42

I’m honestly not normally into conspiracy theories. I’m a science graduate and usually pretty sensible.

however I think all the things I mentioned, the current untrustworthiness of the government plus covid has made me question more things.

I too remember chatting with colleagues in early 2020 and them laughing and saying “this virus won’t come to much”

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VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 29/03/2023 12:43

I 100% believe we are further in the shit with climate change than most governments want to admit or even begin to deal with and I think nature is sending us alot of warning signals that are being ignored.
e.g droughts / heat waves, northern lights, the torrential rains we are getting.

BreatheAndFocus · 29/03/2023 12:43

No - look back over the last few decades. Things are always being touted as ‘could happen’. Wasn’t there something about the Mayan calendar and the world ending in 2012? Other big asteroids the size of buses, along with sunspots, eclipses, etc etc.

The biggest threat isn’t from Space, it’s from the idiots living on this planet with us.

TheNoonBell · 29/03/2023 12:45

You missed a few points:

Digital ID - public consulation ended last month.
Digital currency - public consultation ended this month.
Online Safey Bill - Ofcom will police the internet for misinformation shortly.

The age of freedom is ending, the age of coercion is upon us.

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:46

Thisisbig · 29/03/2023 12:42

I’m honestly not normally into conspiracy theories. I’m a science graduate and usually pretty sensible.

however I think all the things I mentioned, the current untrustworthiness of the government plus covid has made me question more things.

I too remember chatting with colleagues in early 2020 and them laughing and saying “this virus won’t come to much”

It's people dismissing, laughing about Trans and the pandemic that made me look into things.

I dismissed my Friend over Agenda 30 and it was on the UN site as she said.

I still think Schwabb is a troll though, he hasn't a lot of money either.

Mummyford · 29/03/2023 12:46

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:22

There is nothing wrong with asking questions OP as you did today, test your thinking as you just did.

I remember people laughing saying that there would be no pandemic. You can look at the old threads here, I wasn't posting just reading them, where those who looked into it were laughing the following months at those who insulted them the previous month who now had no toilet roll.

The difference is that the world scientific and medical communities and organisations have been warning of a coming pandemic for decades and openly urging countries to get their preparedness and medical systems in order. Whether people wanted to scoff at the idea of Covid crossing borders to become worldwide is totally different from people in positions of authority conspiring.

SleepingStandingUp · 29/03/2023 12:46

Babyroobs · 29/03/2023 12:02

Two friends early early fifties died suddenly last year, one heart problems, one a blood clot but both previously healthy. One with the blood clot was one of the fittest people I know, ran marathons etc. Another women who I knew from an internet help site died of brain bleed suddenly, friends daughter in thirties from a blood clot , one of dd's collegues in her part time job died suddenly brain bleed. CEO of my previous workplace died after short illness - mid fifties I'd say. I know people die suddenly, it just seems such a lot in such a short space of time when my social life and work circle is very limited. I don't have huge numbers of friends so is hard to get my head around so many deaths. I do find it worrying.

You say it's Al limited circle but it's not.
One friend, possibly local.
One online friend from somewhere else. The daughter of your friend, so one step removed
A colleague of your daughter, so one step removed
A old Boss.

So two people who you properly knew, one in your life. One you know no rw but still in your life.

Then two people you know have each known one person who's died..
They isn't a conspiracy.

I'm sorry for your loss

lemons44 · 29/03/2023 12:47

I'm actually with you on this one OP.

I thought this when I read about the orb of Mosul. It's the first time the military have released images of something unidentified. Very interesting if you google about it. It did make me wonder similar, if they are drip feeding information that forms a wider picture.

Picture of the orb below.

Is something big going on… conspiracy theory related
Justcallmebebes · 29/03/2023 12:47

And don't forget the chem trails Wink

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/03/2023 12:48

Ofcom will police the internet for misinformation shortly

What, ALL of it? and what are they going to do with it when they find it, given that Ofcom is a UK institution and the internet is worldwide? and for a start, how are they defining 'misinformation'?

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:48

VegetablesFightingToReclaimTheAubergieneEmoji · 29/03/2023 12:43

I 100% believe we are further in the shit with climate change than most governments want to admit or even begin to deal with and I think nature is sending us alot of warning signals that are being ignored.
e.g droughts / heat waves, northern lights, the torrential rains we are getting.

Yet if you look at the Greens globally over trans issue, a huge number of greens think men are women including Greta. Greta wasn't given an hounoury science degree it was a theology one. What science is there behind that? And they expect me to believe them after they look like a joke over biology on other science?

Whiteroomjoy · 29/03/2023 12:49
  • a few asteroids flying “close” and reported in press
  • A few solar/planet events… eg holes in sun creating solar winds, northern lights being so far down south, weird planetary alignments
  • nasa being able to defect the path of an asteroid in the last 6 months

op, you need to go back to school 🤦‍♀️
all these events have ALWAYS happened and will always happen. Asteroids don’t fly in form no where - they are orbital objects and are orbiting around our plant et, another planet in our solar system or the sun. Some of those orbits are so big they will only cross earths trajectory once in 10000 years , but others cross paths every year. There’s no weird planetary alignments -astronomy is governed by laws of physics , which whilst we are still always understanding more , like string theory, don’t mean that established planet orbits start changing randomly. It’s nonsense.

there aren’t “holes in the sun” 🤦‍♀️, the sun is a large gas ball with a solid core. It’s one whoppy big nuclear reactor. Sun spots/coronal holes are where surface temperature is reduced due to magnetic flux in the core. The aurora is caused by charged particles emitting from the sun due to disturbances in the magnetosphere , if the suns activity increases, solar winds increase, more changed particles emitting in solar flares, more aurora. Simple. The sun is constantly chainring temperature and levels off magnetic fields and surface temperature change. There will, and always have been, large fluctuations of periods of auroras activity. It ain’t something new. It’s not even new science, the cause of aurora has been known for over 120 years now.

as for NASA finding a way to alter the path of an asteroid. That’s called progress. NASA is a USA Gov funded organisation and has to justify its exi sitar e in terms of benefit for USA population. During 1960scitnwas the race to the moon, under guise of beating USSR who they were at a Cold War with, and to find out if it could be done, and if the moon was suitable for element extraction. In 1970/80s they did same thing with Mars - could we colonise it if disaster struck, and now they’re chasing after “saving the USA population destruction form a direct hit”. Behind all that pizazz is good science work that’s not very thrilling to your average USA citizen . The “saving the planet” work makes headlines, sells the role of NASA USA tax payers.

There’s no big conspiracy behind astronomical headlines you read. Just usual advancements in scientific understanding , some make headlines, the majority do not. Mainly becuase people like you only want to read the scary headline making stuff and do catastrophising thinking, rather than actually going away and reading up about wider context

TheNoonBell · 29/03/2023 12:50

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/03/2023 12:48

Ofcom will police the internet for misinformation shortly

What, ALL of it? and what are they going to do with it when they find it, given that Ofcom is a UK institution and the internet is worldwide? and for a start, how are they defining 'misinformation'?

Pretty much most of the stuff you use:

From the Ofcom site (link below)

The UK is set to introduce comprehensive new laws aimed at making online users safer, while preserving freedom of expression. The Online Safety Bill will introduce rules for sites and apps such as social media, search engines and messaging platforms – as well as other services that people use to share content online.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/new-online-safety-rules-what-is-ofcoms-rolewww.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/new-online-safety-rules-what-is-ofcoms-role

New online safety rules – what do they mean, and what is Ofcom’s role?

Today we’ve set out our plans for how we will implement new online safety rules, which we expect will come into force next year giving Ofcom new powers in this area.

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/news-centre/2022/new-online-safety-rules-what-is-ofcoms-role

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 29/03/2023 12:51

I think nature is sending us alot of warning signals that are being ignored.
e.g droughts / heat waves, northern lights, the torrential rains we are getting

Northern lights are a natural light display; and torrential rain used to be a regular feature of the UK winter. Winters have got a lot drier, that's why heavy rain seems unusual.

BurrosTail · 29/03/2023 12:53

Your definition of “asking questions” is hilarious. There are definitely stupid questions, like referring to “weird planetary alignments”. I mean, that’s what planets do, they orbit and sometimes align 😂

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