mardi 13 décembre 2016

Buzz Aldrin at the Mountains of Madness

This is officially my new favorite conspiracy theory.

As you are all quite aware American hero and god-figure Buzz Aldrin, who is best known for punching an annoying conspirabro named Bart Sibrel in the jaw, and also for some stuff about the Moon or something(?), was recently evacuated in the middle of a tourist trip to South Pole Station in Antarctica. He apparently developed some pleural edema and was flown to New Zealand, where to my knowledge, the former astronaut remains under the care of David Bowie. He is recovering nicely and no complications are expected. This is all public knowledge.

However a couple of days ago, conspiracy websites began to buzz with excitement over a story that was beginning to make the rounds, involving Aldrin. According to the claims, a short time before Aldrin was stricken with his malady and an evacuation was called for, he posted a cryptic tweet on his official Twitter account. The tweet said, simply,

Quote:

We are all in danger. It is evil itself.
...and was accompanied by a single photograph of a triangular-shaped Antarctic mountain that is popular among conspiracy mongers because it looks quite pyramidal, if you're willing to ignore the fact that it's a very large mountain. Curiously, minutes after Aldrin tweeted the message, it was deleted.

Why would Buzz Aldrin have posted this message? What exactly was he warning us about? What was "evil itself" - this mountain in the photograph? Something related to or associated with it? What is the nature of this "evil", and why are we all in danger from it? Why was the tweet deleted after it was posted - did Aldrin do it? Somebody else? Why? Why would anyone want to keep secret something that a respected hero like Buzz Aldrin found so disturbing he sought to warn all of us about it? Is his warning connected somehow with his subsequent medical emergency and evacuation? What was the real purpose of the elderly astronaut's expected month-long visit to the south pole? What happened here???

Before anybody gets the wrong impression of me, let me be the first to clarify that the tweet was forged by a conspiracy-themed fake-news outlet. However, I really like this story, because Buzz's vague warning about an "evil" that threatens the world seems to stray away from the pedestrian soft-sci-fi alien/government conspiracy plot and almost suggests something along the lines of cosmic or supernatural horror, which is a genre of fiction I tend to appreciate (when well-executed).


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