The way I look at the moon landing changed after a friend sent me a video from some random guy in his garage

I used to just accept the official story about the moon landings, you know, the one we all learned in school. It was history, done deal. Then about two years ago, a buddy of mine sent me this long video from a guy who builds model rockets in Arizona. This guy spent 40 minutes breaking down the shadows in the Apollo photos, saying the angles were all wrong for a single light source like the sun. He had these side-by-side comparisons with studio lights. It made me stop and really look at the old footage for the first time. Now I can't unsee some of the weird stuff, like the flag moving or the lack of stars. But then I also watched NASA's official rebuttals, and they have their own science for every single point. So I'm stuck. One side says it's the greatest film set ever built, the other says it's simple physics and we really went. Has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole and come out with a solid opinion on which side holds more water?

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piperbailey2mo ago

Honestly, the garage guy's physics are way worse than NASA's.

the_thea27d ago

That specific garage guy from the videos near Austin got called out by a real engineer on Twitter last month. @piperbailey is right, his math on atmospheric pressure was just completely made up.

william_garcia2mo ago

Feel like this happens with everything now. You see one convincing video and suddenly you're questioning stuff you never thought about. Makes it hard to trust anything you don't see with your own eyes.

emmahayes2mo ago

Totally! I watched a deep dive on food packaging last week and now I'm side-eyeing my whole pantry. It's wild how fast a single video can make you doubt everything.