Conspiracy, with a Beat!

[gridlore]

OK, discodj needs to have this before the next BayCon.

Alone

The theories of David Icke set to a dance beat. If you don't know Mr. Icke, he's one of those Ancient Astronaut/Golden Bloodline/Fifth Column loonies.

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[bunyip.livejournal.com]

What's the Golden Bloodline or Fifth Column theories?

I know Ancient Astronaut

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Golden Bloodline: The theory that certain families are destined for power, due to relationship to a royal line, being chosen by aliens, or being descended from Jesus. People into this one like to point out how many Presidents have been related to each other, and their relation to Charlemange.

Fifth Column: They're here NOW! Aliens, Jews, Masons, Gamers.. whatever your particular monster under the bed happens to be. Every incident in history has to be somehow caused by the subtle influences of the Fifth Column. One of my favorite examples of this way of thinking was the claim that the Patriots' 2002 Superbowl win was fixed. See, having the "Patriots" (symbols of America) beat the "Rams" (symbol of Arabian Islam) was vital in setting the stage for the War in Iraq.

[bunyip.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Of course, pedigree collapse ensures that we're all pretty much related if you go back no further than about the 13th century looking for ancestors. It's a power of two thing: 2³⁰ is larger than the population of the Earth at the time, so 30 generations is sufficient -- two parents at a time -- to cross everyone with everyone else.

Odd. I mentioned yesterday that I'd never seen anything that crossed my interest in dance music with my interest in black ops stories. Now I get two in two days. A shame this one's lyrics are set to such Euro-technocheese :)

[kengr]

Actually, it doesn't work that way, because you are assuming that the gene pols back in the 13th century weren't mostly idsolated grouops with limited crossing.

What you *really* get is that the family tree starts getting a lot of cross-links when you get basck to the "mostly isolated grouo" period. The number of ancestors doesn't increasde and can even decrease.

The powers of 2 bit *assumes* that each generation ancestors *not* shared between branches.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

When have facts gotten in the way of a good conspiracy theory?

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Now do TIME CUBE!