Lol thank you for making that, I had that meme in mind while I was writing that reply.

I mean, I do have RGB lights but it’s not because I’m a software engineer. I’m just a dork.

True but it’s a joke in a meme community so I think it’ll be okay if it doesn’t meet the scientific rigor we expect in the rest of the communities on mander.xyz

Not reading articles and just commenting on the headline. It’s extremely disappointing that habit carried over from reddit.

Hack the planet!

Well, no answer that these guys want to hear.

Spot on, this applies to so many other paranormal events too. Some people refuse to believe that their favorite “mysteries” were never really all that mysterious to begin with. Nor are they willing to accept explanations they view as being too mundane. At a certain point they’ve sunk so much time and become too emotionally invested in the legend to accept anything but the most wild and grand explanations.

Dyatlov Pass is a great example of this. The avalanche theory was always the most likely explanation but without question the least exotic. But it also applies to things like the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film, the 1934 Loch Ness monster photo, the Amityville/DeFeo murders, and conspiracy theories surrounding damn near every modern political assassination since Lincoln.