Am I the only one who thinks the moon landing faking theory ignores basic physics?

I spent a whole weekend looking into that whole 'the flag was waving in a vacuum' argument, and it's honestly laughable. That flag had a horizontal rod in it, and the motion you see is just the astronaut twisting it. Anyone who actually watched the raw footage from 1969 can see the difference between that and wind. Why do people cling to one blurry photo instead of the thousands of pages of telemetry data?

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dianab683d ago

Yeah I remember reading a book about the Apollo missions a few years back and they went into detail about how the flag was designed. There's actually a video of Buzz Aldrin talking about it where he says they had trouble getting it to unfurl all the way because the vacuum made the fabric stick together. People see that and think it's wind but it's just physics doing what it does. The telemetry data alone should shut this down, 300,000 people worked on that program and not one whistleblower with actual proof ever came forward.

nora102d ago

Oh man, that flag thing drives me nuts too. I got into a three hour argument with my uncle at a backyard barbecue about it once, and he kept pointing at a blurry YouTube video. I finally pulled out my phone and showed him the actual NASA press kit from 1969 that explains the flag design step by step. He just changed the subject to chemtrails instead. Why do people trust a random Facebook meme over actual engineers who built the stuff?