Talked to a guy at the car wash who flipped my thinking on moon landing deniers

I was at the manual car wash in Tulsa last Tuesday and this older guy next to me started talking about how the moon landing footage just looks too perfect. He pulled up a video on his phone showing shadows going different directions in the same shot. Why do those shadow details never get addressed in the official explanations?

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evan15113d ago

Man that shadow thing is what got me too when I first looked into it. I spent a whole weekend down a rabbit hole watching videos and reading stuff after a buddy sent me a similar clip. What finally made it click for me was realizing that the moon surface isn't flat like a parking lot, it's got all these bumps and slopes that throw shadows off. Plus the camera angles matter way more than people think, you can get crazy shadow tricks just walking around your own backyard with a flashlight. Once I actually tried to replicate that shadow effect myself with a lamp and some rocks it made total sense.

aarons3613d ago

Tried the same thing with a flashlight and a crumpled up bedsheet on the floor and it instantly made all those weird shadows click for me. Once you see how small changes in the surface change where shadows land it gets super obvious. That hands on experiment saved me from going any deeper down that rabbit hole.