A guy at my bar said my take on the moon landing was too simple

I was talking about the old footage and said it all looked fake, but he pointed out specific details like the dust behavior and the flag's movement that match the vacuum conditions. I looked it up later and he was right about a lot of the science I hadn't considered. Has anyone else had a basic conspiracy belief get picked apart by someone who actually knew the technical stuff?

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milarodriguez1h ago

Yeah, the "dust behavior" point gets a lot of people. I had a similar thing with flat earth stuff, where someone explained how ship hulls disappear bottom-first over the horizon, which a flat model can't do. It's wild how a single solid fact can unravel a whole idea you thought was clever.

faithb7438m ago

That ship hull thing is actually a bad example because atmospheric refraction can make the whole ship seem to lift up. The better proof is that you can't see the Chicago skyline from across Lake Michigan on a clear day.