Lost Cosmonauts: I Love a Good Conspiracy
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Not that I typically subscribe to conspiracy theories, or wear my tin-foil hat (very often), but I do love to read and hear about them. How this one has slipped passed me for so long I'll never know.
I tuned into the latest episode of Skeptoid this morning in which Brian Dunning was going over the facts surrounding the claims that the Soviets were launching humans into space long before anyone knew it. I had no idea.
His show led me to the site The Lost Cosmonauts where a lot of the evidence is presented. It seems that two brothers had set up an amateur listening post and were in the habit of recording various frequencies known to have been used throughout the Soviet space program.
At one point before the historical flight of Yuri Gagarin, the brother's claim to have made recordings which prove that other's had already been launched, and lost. The recordings include Morse code "SOS", a failing heartbeat, and even a female voice reporting trouble.
Labels: conspiracy, skeptical, skeptoid
posted by Russell @ 9:57 AM,
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