Debate: did the moon landing really happen or was it faked?

I've been looking into the moon landing conspiracy stuff for a few weeks now. Watched a documentary that showed some weird shadows in the photos that don't line up with a single light source. But then I also read a NASA engineer's blog where he broke down exactly why those shadows happen with wide angle lenses and the lunar surface. My uncle swears it was all filmed in a studio because the flag waves with no wind, but I learned the flag had a rod in it to keep it out. I'm stuck between thinking the evidence is solid for the landing and wondering if something got covered up. What do you all think after digging into this stuff yourself?

2 comments

2 Comments

bens8127d ago

The whole debate feels like a lot of energy for something that happened before I was born. I've looked at those shadow photos and read the counterpoints and honestly it just seems like people see what they want to see. The flag rod thing is pretty straightforward if you watch the actual footage they had to twist it to get it to stop bouncing. My favorite is the van Allen radiation belt argument like we didn't send probes through it before sending people. If it was faked it would be the most impressive special effects of the 60s and then they just never used that technology again for anything.

henry_martinez27d ago

Man, I feel you on this @bens81. The whole thing gets blown way out of proportion, like people just want to argue for the sake of arguing. I've seen those same videos and the flag thing is pretty obvious once you actually look at the frame by frame... it's just physics. And the radiation belt thing always gets me too, like we didn't fly unmanned stuff through it years before with no issues. It's exhausting to keep defending basic facts, isn't it?