Pluto Conspiracy Theorists Say NASA’s Pluto Photos Are Fake
Pluto conspiracy theorists believe that NASA’s latest flyby expedition to the most distant planet in our solar system is a hoax.
A group of separate amateur space explorers found full voice on social media after NASA released close-up images of Pluto taken by its New Horizons spacecraft. The primary logic behind their reasoning is that anything that can’t be seen with a telescope on Earth is fake, and therefore the latest set of photos cannot be verified under any circumstances. Some bloggers have dubbed this Pluto conspiracy theory as the “Truther Movement.”
TOO BAD ALL #NASA MISSIONS ARE FAKE HOAX………….. #PLUTO DON'T BELIEVE THE HOLOGRAMS , AT LEAST STAY CONSISTENT WITH THE IMAGES SMH
— DA INFAMOUS ACE (@DaInfamousAce) July 14, 2015
@DaInfamousAce enough said. #Pluto images are mosaics, composites and computer generated images! No photos avail. pic.twitter.com/wwRm8ufzjQ
— WAHsu (@WAH_su) July 17, 2015
Not only have the naysayers voiced their opinion on the Pluto conspiracy on blogs and social media, they have prepared elaborate videos debunking the whole idea. A YouTuber who goes by the name Crow Trippleseven posits in a video that he could take better resolution photos of the closer-to-home Jupiter from his backyard telescope. His further statement is not only dramatic, but completely antithetical to what others believe as truth.
“This is silliness and games and NASA are literally robbing the American people and then lying to them. NASA’s mission is to ensure we know nothing about what is outside of our world… It is all fraud. You are just looking at pixels. NASA and John Hopkins own these fabricated and false images. If you want to see the real Pluto, I’m sorry to say, you have got to go to Disney Land.”
In an email interview with Newsweek, Crow Trippleseven responded to what he thought could be part of a larger conspiracy.
“We live in an age of power and deception. I do see a difference in the number of people who are no longer blind to this fact. An awakening is, in fact, under way in this regard.”
Even more bizarrely, some other Pluto conspiracy theorists have even suggested that Pluto’s heart-shaped ice cap conceals evidence of alien structures. According to Chron, UFO theorist Tyler Glockener says that a peculiar collection of dark matters underlining Pluto’s bottom surface is too symmetrical for it to be natural.
“I am literally questioning whether this thing is actually a planet or something else. You can immediately make out anomalies – lines and structures.”
But Nigel Watson, author and UFO investigator, warns the general public against such claims. He believes any historic achievement is likely to be met with suspicion. These Pluto conspiracy theories, according to him, are an inevitable by-product of such human triumphs. He spoke to the Daily Mail about it.
“I was surprised to see how quickly people started saying the mission to Pluto, and the pictures being sent back to Earth are all fake. Conspiracy theorists believe every strange blob of light near the International Space Station are alien spacecraft. They can believe those pictures are not faked because they fit their ideas but call other pictures fake that don’t fit their theories.”
While the world celebrates NASA’s achievement, these theorists try and substantiate their argument with more proof. Will their Pluto conspiracy theory ever make its way to the public imagination?
[Photo: Science Magazine Facebook: Allan Stern (Southwest Research Institute), Marc Buie (Lowell Observatory), NASA and ESA; NASA, ESA, H. Weaver (JHU/APL). A. Stern (SwRI), and the HST Pluto Comparison Search Team; SANA/APL/SwRI]
