Alternative 3

[gruts]

Although human beings are apparently the most intelligent creatures on this planet, it's amazing how easily some people can be fooled into believing even the most obvious misinformation. And long before anyone had ever heard of "Sorcha Faal" or the "no planes theory", there was "Alternative 3"....

Alternative 3

On 20th June 1977, an episode of Anglia TV's popular science series, "Science Report", was broadcast to millions of unsuspecting television viewers in the UK. Its subject was a top secret international conspiracy called "Alternative 3".

The show began with the announcer explaining that the incredible facts he was about to reveal had been stumbled upon while the Science Report team were researching the "brain drain" of British scientists leaving the country to find better opportunities abroad. In the course of that investigation, they discovered that some of the scientists they wanted to interview weren't just leaving the country - they seemed to be mysteriously disappearing from the face of the Earth.

The disappearance of these scientists prompted the team to investigate further, and what they ultimately uncovered was a vast and sinister global plot reaching to the very highest levels of the American and Soviet governments.

Apparently, back in the 1950s, research which was withheld from the general public had already determined that Earth was facing an unstoppable environmental catastrophe, mainly due to overpopulation, pollution and misuse of the planet's resources by humankind, who as a result faced the prospect of almost certain extinction.

World governments were left with only three options:

Alternative 1 — to release pollution into space by detonating nuclear weapons in the upper atmosphere.

Alternative 2 — to construct huge underground shelters to house government officials and a selected elite until the crisis above ground had stabilised.

Alternative 3 — to establish a "Noah's Ark" colony of humanity's best and brightest on another planet, preferably Mars.

The impending doom had prompted high-level officials in the American and Soviet governments to collaborate in order to make Alternative 3 a reality.

Through interviews with supposed astronauts and scientists, Science Report pieced together "evidence" which apparently revealed that the Soviets and Americans, working together, had reached Mars as early as 1962 (and discovered that it was capable of supporting life), that the Apollo Space Programme had been nothing but a publicity decoy to conceal the true purpose behind NASA's numerous rocket launches (ie the establishment of bases on the moon and on Mars), and that scientists were now being abducted to populate these bases.

The stony-faced earnestness of the announcer apparently convinced many that the investigation was genuine, because after the show's conclusion Anglia TV was flooded with over 10000 calls, and Alternative 3 was front page news in the tabloid press the next day. If viewers had watched a little more closely however, they would have seen that the show's copyright notice was dated 1st April 1977 - April Fool's Day (which had been originally scheduled as the broadcast date) - and that the closing credits showed that the characters were played by actors.

But some people refused to believe it wasn't true, even after its producers confirmed that the entire thing had been a joke. Within months, a book about Alternative 3 by Leslie Watkins and David Ambrose was published, fleshing out the issues discussed in the show with more "research" that the authors presented as conclusive proof of the evil plans and activities that Science Report had brought into the public domain for the first time.

A quick search around the internet (Google, Youtube etc) will reveal that belief in Alternative 3 is not only still alive, but has also spawned a great deal of further "research" by people who often share the conviction that Alternatives 1 and 2 were carried as well, and that the show was part of the shadowy world government's pernicious web of disinformation and deception. They argue that by making Alternative 3 appear to be a fanciful hoax, the secret rulers of the world have ensured that no one will suspect that it is, in fact, the frightening truth.

Judge for yourselves....


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[Newspeak International]

You are trying very hard to associate this sort of drivel with the no-planes idea, when there are so many other avenues to expose.

Why is that Gruts

[TonyGosling]

Entirely transparent fakery

[gruts]

yes - but you're speaking as a rational person, as opposed to somebody who just "wants to believe"....

[chek]

The same is also true of the Illuminatus books by Robert Shea and Robert Wilson that came out in the '70's.

Conspiracy hobbies are a big business, especially so now that internet access is common, and it's not hard to tell any tall tale and have it accepted as revelatory fact by someone somewhere.

Interestingly enough, 'revelatory' rhymes with 'masturbatory'.
Coincidence?
Maybe .... if you believe in coincidences, that is.

[chek]

[Newspeak International]

[chek]

[Newspeak International]

[chek]

[Newspeak International]

I said earlier:

[gruts]

chek's arguments are only circular in that they are responses to your endless repetition of the same old disinfo.

try changing the record....

[chek]

I suspect you're half right gruts.

I suspect the other half is that NI pronouncements (unidentified = non-existant. Huh?) are exposed as the usual half-baked, unresearched common or garden BS (note the way the information regarding the planted parts request is glossed over as if it never happened) we've come to expect from the npt (they no longer deserve capital letters) crew.

Yet again. Ferquing dullards (pardon my French).