DAE think the moon landing was faked but the official story is too lazy to be fake? I'll explain

I was at a family reunion in Tuscaloosa last year and my uncle started ranting about how NASA faked the Apollo 11 footage because the flag waving in a vacuum didn't make sense. But then my cousin (an engineer) pointed out that if you were gonna fake it, you'd make it way more convincing, not leave obvious wobbles. So which is it: a sloppy cover-up or just bad filming techniques back in 1969? Anyone else torn on this or got a third theory?

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amymason6d ago

Oh I've absolutely been there, my uncle has a whole conspiracy wall in his garage and I'm just like "buddy, if I tried to fake a moon landing I'd Photoshop the flag backwards and my cat would walk through the shot." The wobble thing actually makes sense if you think about how 1969 cameras worked, giant heavy reels and all that. But honestly my conspiracy theory is that aliens were just really bad at hiding their own tech and NASA had to scramble to cover it up with whatever footage they had.

the_miles6d ago

Van Allen belts are a good point but here's the thing nobody brings up - how come the Soviet Union, who were literally trying to catch us lying about everything, never called us out on it? They had their own space program and spied on everything. If the footage was fake, Khrushchev's guys would've been screaming it from the rooftops. That silence is always the dead giveaway for me.

charles_price6d ago

This is exactly why you gotta just nod and pass the potato salad at these things. My rule is simple - if they start with "the flag waving," ask them to explain the whole freaking Van Allen belt radiation thing first. Usually they get real quiet. The cousin's right though, if a billion-dollar operation was gonna fake something, they'd use better props than a $20 flag on a stick. Practical advice: buy a bag of marshmallows, roast them over the grill while they argue, win either way.