"Everybody in Anglia Television was wetting themselves with fear"
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation
Who remembers Alternative 3? I'd read the book but missed the TV mockumentary at the time. It almost had me converted, but I knew that some of the astronaut names mentioned were made up.
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation
When you realise your "They're going into Space to abandon the rest of us and live on Mars" theory is nothing more than a reheated 70s hoax from Anglia Television.
Naturally the Trump regime thinks there's something to it, or rather this is some shit to flood the zone with.
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation
"Alternative 3 shows just how much impact a well-constructed spoof can have, even when its creators protest that it’s not real."
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation
I see from news reports that Britain is having another "brain drain". Its blamed on #Brexit and not joining Horizon Europe programme, but given the state of #ClimateChange I'm wondering if #Alternative3 is a more likely scenario now?
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