Got my uncle to admit the moon landing wasn't faked after a whole Thanksgiving dinner argument

Every year at our family dinner in Boise, my uncle Bob brings up the 'studio lights' in the Apollo photos. This time I brought printouts from the NASA archives showing the specific camera settings and lighting angles. After about an hour of going through them with him, he finally shrugged and said, 'Okay, maybe they really went.' It felt like a tiny victory after a decade of the same debate. Anyone else manage to shift a family member's stance on a classic conspiracy theory?

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perez.barbara5d ago

That hour in Boise changed the whole mood for the rest of the night. It's not about winning a dumb argument, it's about pulling someone you care about back from the edge of a weird rabbit hole. If we don't bother to correct the small stuff with family, who will? Letting that stuff slide just makes the world feel more broken.

hayes.tara10d ago

Winning those small battles makes me feel less crazy about all the other nonsense out there.

phoenixgonzalez11d ago

Gotta ask, was it worth the hour of your holiday? Just seems like a lot of work to win an argument that doesn't really change anything.

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