Kyle wrote:I should've said "I don't personally know anyone who actually believed it."
That was the meaning I got from you before anyway. I don't think all that many people outside od Camping's radio listeners believed him anyway.
Still, it shows you how gullible people can be sometimes. Take any impluasible scenario and make it sound like it's the truth as convincingly as possible, and people will believe in droves.
Well known example: Just look at
Orson Welle's War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. It wasn't even (supposdly at least) deliberately presented as an actual event, and yet many people (though the account of millions is probably an exaggeration) believed a Martian invasion was actually in progress even though the radio broadcast was based on a well-known book, because it was presented as a series of (fictional) news broadcasts (and because of fears of a Nazi or Japanese attack on the US were running high by that time). Imagine the panic if Welles actually WAS trying to pull off a hoax (something which many people accused him of anyway but which he always denied) and asking for donations for a emergency fund of some kind.
Dare to be different... and make a difference.
To boldly go where no one in their right mind has gone before...