Re: Was anybody fooled by John Titor\'s story?
testingwaytwo,
A few people were fooled. The people who were fooled were the those who really didn't understand physics and whose only "knowledge" of the subject came from the Internet alone.
For the most part, however, there weren't many people who came out and admitted that they believed the story. Over the years I've run several polls to see how many people believe, don't believe and who can't make a decision.
The results have been very consistent:
70% don't believe
10% believe
20% can't decide
One common thread that seems to run with the believers is their political position. They tend to be liberals who actually desire a civil war in the USA. For some reason they like Titor's Final Solution (half of the 6 billion souls on the planet get toasted by the Russians).
Go figure.
In any case, the believers have tended to discount the physical unreality of what he posed (a cold micro-mass black hole) because they like the political message.
Note: Please, I don't want anyone to interpret my statement to mean that liberals want a civil war. I was simply stating that those people, over the years, who seem to post pro-Titor's Civil War POV's also seem to be liberals. Obviously they represent a vanishingly tiny fanatic portion of the general political philosophy of liberalism.
