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[HuntrSThompsun]

Typical world view, whenever something out of the ordinary comes up that's negative, you can always count on the US to be the first to get locked up on conspiracy somehow!

[Tutankhaten-pasheri]

Still Waters, on 23 February 2013 - 04:40 PM, said:

They say that Russia is the motherland of conspiracy theories, and public reaction to the sudden meteor strike a week ago that stunned people in the Ural mountains, and injured more than 1,200, seems to be proving that true.

A survey published today by the fairly staid Moscow daily Noviye Izvestia found that barely half its readers believe the official report that the blast was caused by a meteor.

http://www.csmonitor...think-so.-video

This has to be treated with much suspicion. There is a test on that site about how much you know about Russia. I did this test and got to, I think, 11 out of 11 correct, then the next question required an incorrect answer to be "correct". It was about Catherine the Great. So, if they cannot compile a proper test, then what else can they not do correctly. Though I will say that the test will be very difficult for foreigners

[The New Richard Nixon]

Was this even posted? its just pure stupid

[Colonel Rhuairidh]

Atentutankh-pasheri, on 24 February 2013 - 03:50 PM, said:

This has to be treated with much suspicion. There is a test on that site about how much you know about Russia. I did this test and got to, I think, 11 out of 11 correct, then the next question required an incorrect answer to be "correct". It was about Catherine the Great. So, if they cannot compile a proper test, then what else can they not do correctly. Though I will say that the test will be very difficult for foreigners

I thoguht I'd try that. 15/20, although I think question 16 ("Who followed Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union") was a bit of a trick question, as you'd naturally think of Khruschev wouldn't you.
The Catherine the Great one was "  Which of these things was Catherine the Great not known for?" , and she wasn't known for the Russian defeat by the armies of Napoleon, so it is right.

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Atentutankh-pasheri, on 24 February 2013 - 03:50 PM, said:

This has to be treated with much suspicion. There is a test on that site about how much you know about Russia. I did this test and got to, I think, 11 out of 11 correct, then the next question required an incorrect answer to be "correct". It was about Catherine the Great. So, if they cannot compile a proper test, then what else can they not do correctly. Though I will say that the test will be very difficult for foreigners

11 of 20 answered correctly but I guessed a lot.  I thought the Rybinsk reservoir was the largest body of fresh water in Russia.  Lake Baikal must be HUGE indeed.

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HuntrSThompsun, on 24 February 2013 - 03:48 PM, said:

Typical world view, whenever something out of the ordinary comes up that's negative, you can always count on the US to be the first to get locked up on conspiracy somehow!

Its the Russians who have mentioned the US.

[Tutankhaten-pasheri]

and then, on 24 February 2013 - 06:14 PM, said:

11 of 20 answered correctly but I guessed a lot.  I thought the Rybinsk reservoir was the largest body of fresh water in Russia.  Lake Baikal must be HUGE indeed.

Not so huge in area, though it is big. The volume is in the depth, Baikal is very deep, and who knows what is in it unexplored depths.....

[Tutankhaten-pasheri]

Lord Vetinari, on 24 February 2013 - 06:00 PM, said:

I thoguht I'd try that. 15/20, although I think question 16 ("Who followed Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union") was a bit of a trick question, as you'd naturally think of Khruschev wouldn't you.
The Catherine the Great one was "  Which of these things was Catherine the Great not known for?" , and she wasn't known for the Russian defeat by the armies of Napoleon, so it is right.

did it again, 19/20 as I stupidly clicked Khruschev and not Malenkov. That is obscure....

Edited by Atentutankh-pasheri, 24 February 2013 - 06:40 PM.

[DigitalDreamer]

Conspiracy theorist's are so funny,at the same time i feel as if maybe we aren't told the entire truth of every situation but really...Alien viruses? A U.S. attack? come on people

[MedicTJ]

Frank Merton, on 24 February 2013 - 03:16 PM, said:

All this has got me to speculating (rather wildly) about what it would mean if we really were under observation or study by a seriously advanced culture who for whatever reason don't want to reveal themselves.

If I were commanding such an outfit and saw that the planet we were studying was about to be hit by a rock big enough to destroy a city and kill millions, but I don't want to make my presence known to them, what do I do.  It is immoral to sit back and do nothing when you have the power to prevent the catastrophe.

Well I shoot the damn thing down high up in the atmosphere so our explosion seems to be just normal meteoric atmospheric destruction.

So maybe we are being protected, we just don't know it.

I don't know that it would be considered immoral.  If they hold a policy of observance with no intervention so as to preserve the natural order of things, it would be no more immoral than, say, a group of people on safari that do nothing to prevent a couple of lionesses from taking a zebra.

[spud the mackem]

I have'nt seen many Russian posts coming out yet most of them are taught English in school, does this mean that they are censored from using P.C's to communicate outside Russia ?. if so they are not telling us that several beings parachuted from the "meteor" before it crashed as it was really an Alian Spaceship.

[musk]

did they even check inside the water where it landed to find the meteorite???? that might be a good start to prove if it was or wasn't

[Waspie_Dwarf]

musk, on 25 February 2013 - 02:13 AM, said:

did they even check inside the water where it landed to find the meteorite???? that might be a good start to prove if it was or wasn't

If the fact that it looked like a meteor, travelled like a meteor, acted like a meteor, exploded like a meteor and left behind meteorite fragments isn't evidence enough for some people then finding a rock in a lake isn't going to convince them.

There is enough proof already for the  rational and you can't reason with the irrational.

[musk]

good point some people are just ignorant then

[csspwns]

Some people just hate living in reality. *sighs*