*The conspiring agency must be given a malevolent nature, (evil).
*The conspiring agency must be overtly supportive of truth, honesty, and democracy, but working behind the scenes to subvert those values.
*There must be certain facts, sometimes obscure and little known, which non the less are true.
*There must be extrapolations of those facts which lead to conclusions which a person with ordinary common sense would find totally absurd and unbelievable.
*Anyone investigating the theory should find more facts which support the theory.
*A good conspiracy theory predicts future events which though a matter of coincidence make the theory believable.
*All good conspiracy theories led to World domination by a select secretive group of fanatics.
*Always a plus if the theory involves space aliens.
*The developer of a conspiracy theory must be a little paranoid, and yes even paranoids have enemies.
*For this web site the submitted conspiracy theory must be about NASA.
All of this will of course come to a screeching halt when the alien fleet arrives and flattens the continents, because the aliens are in fact an aquatic species, and they intend aquaform this planet to get rid of all those pesky land creatures.
An advanced space alien culture has a computer which predicts that there is a tremendous problem that must be solved, but that it, the computer that is, is not smart enough to solve the problem. Neither are the advanced space aliens or any of their friends smart enough to solve the problem. The problem is so big that the space aliens cannot even comprehend the form of the intelligence capable of solving the problem.
As one of many courses of action, the space aliens find a thousand planets on which life has proceeded in an orderly fashion. They then cause horrific climatic changes by dropping asteroids on the planets and creating ice ages, thereby causing random evolution to produce highly intelligent new species. With a thousand planets, it is hoped that there will be a high probability that a species intelligent enough to solve the problem will be produced. The planets are of course monitored closely, but every effort is made not to interfere in the progress of the new intelligent species. Occasionally individuals are abducted for testing, but are returned with distorted memories of the abduction.
If the new species is judged not to be capable of solving the problem, the planet is subjected to more asteroid bombardments and further disruptions of the environment to spur on the rate of evolutionary advance. The asteriods should start dropping pretty soon now!
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