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Comment by Quarrelsome | Hacker News Reader

mad people don't need reasons to be mad; but rather excuses. If not flat earthism then something else like aliens or smth.

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I remember UFO sightings being super common before smartphones. Celebrities always talking about every once in a while, a maid when I was a kid swearing she could see lights in the sky, etc.

I even remember some people in my small town getting together to talk about it.

(It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though!)

People need to stop looking at their screen all the time

Try filming an airplane at night and be amazed at how shitty the footage of that is from your modern smartphone. Even during the day its a tall order without actual optical zoom and stabilization.

That's not really the point: point is those claims pretty much disappeared compared to the 90s and early 2000s.

Maybe there's other factors at play, such as X-Files ending, or people getting more interested in flat earth.

There are claims all the time made, you just don’t rove over the parts of the internet where they would be posted.

> sightings being super common before smartphones

https://xkcd.com/1235/

> It seems aliens have wised up to the ubiquity of cameras, though

https://xkcd.com/2572/

Maybe we should sow the seeds for conspiracy theories that would benefit humanity if the mad-anyway people were to believe them.

What will this religion be called?

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