Shoutout to the guy who debunked the moon landing hoax in under 10 minutes

I was deep into flat earth forums for about a year until last Tuesday when a friend showed me this YouTube video by a guy named Dave. He walked through the Apollo 11 footage frame by frame and pointed out specific shadows and light angles that matched perfectly with a single light source. It took less than 10 minutes and I felt like an idiot for buying into all that stuff for so long. Has anyone else had a quick video or fact totally flip your view on a conspiracy?

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blair_davis11d ago

And the thing that gets me is how these communities act like skepticism only applies to the government, not to their own sources. I spent six months in a chemtrail group where they swore by a single blog post from 2012 that had no citations, just a guy claiming he used to work for the EPA. When someone finally tracked down the blog author it turned out he was like a 19 year old kid who made the whole thing up for a class project. Nobody ever mentioned that part.

taylor.phoenix4d ago

@finley_flores28 what did your friend make of their excuse when they couldn't explain the dust speck?

finley_flores2811d ago

A friend of mine actually debunked the whole planet X Nibiru thing in like 5 minutes. He pulled up a simple sky map app on his phone and showed me how every supposed "hidden planet" the conspiracy pages kept posting was just a bright star or a known asteroid. The kicker was he matched one of their "planet" photos to a picture of a dust speck on a camera lens from a completely different article. Made me realize most of those forums just copy paste the same blurry images without checking anything.