Debate: Did the moon landing really happen or are people just too trusting of old footage?

I was arguing with a regular at my bar last night about the moon landing. He swears it was faked because the flag looks like it's waving and there's no stars in the photos. But I looked up the debunking stuff and it seems solid, like how the flag had a rod holding it and the cameras couldn't pick up stars. It took me a solid 2 hours of digging through NASA archives and YouTube videos to even feel like I had a clue. What do you guys think, is there real evidence on either side that seals it for you?

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faith2710d ago

Oh man, here we go again with the flag waving thing. I swear, if I had a dollar for every time someone brought up that flag at a party, I'd be rich enough to book a ticket on the next actual moon mission. The rod in the flag is so obvious once you look at the still frames, it's like people want to see a conspiracy. But honestly, the Russian argument is the nail in the coffin for me. You think the KGB wouldn't have leaked a single blurry photo of a soundstage if it was real? They'd have plastered it on every newspaper in the world.

scott.alex10d ago

Honestly, I don't even know why this is a debate that takes two hours of research. Like, who cares if the flag had a rod or not? The dude at your bar probably just wants to argue about something, not actually figure out the truth. NASA put men on the moon six times, and every country with a space program agrees it happened. If it was faked, you'd think the Russians who were watching our every move back then would have screamed about it from the rooftops. Ngl, the whole moon landing conspiracy just feels like a way for people to feel smarter than everyone else without actually looking at the real evidence.

wade_anderson10d ago

I had a buddy who used to be super into this stuff, and he spent like a whole weekend going down a rabbit hole about the flag waving. He came back all excited, thinking he'd found some huge smoking gun. But I just asked him, you know, what about the Russians? He got all quiet and then said he hadn't thought about it. That's the thing, you know? People get so caught up in one little detail (like the rod in the flag) they forget the big picture. The Russians were literally our biggest enemies at the time, and they had their own space program watching our every move. If we could have pulled off a fake, they would have been the first to call us out on it, hands down.