Finally picked a side on the moon landing debate after 4 years

I used to go back and forth between the NASA story and the hoax theory... couldn't make up my mind. Last month at a bar in Austin, a retired engineer showed me retroreflector data from the Apollo 11 site that lasers still bounce off today. That settled it for me, the math just works out too clean for a fake. Anyone else have a moment where you just had to pick one side and stick with it?

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ruby45027d ago

The radiation thing gets brought up a lot but people miss the context. Van Allen belts are dangerous if you stay in them, Apollo just blasted through the skinny part in like 30 minutes. Cross-country flight gives you more exposure from cosmic rays than that quick pass did. Good call looking up the actual dosimeter numbers, that data's been public for decades and backs up NASA's story.

bennett.noah27d ago

One thing I never see anyone bring up is the radiation data from the Van Allen belts. People always talk about the film being fogged or the astronauts getting sick, but nobody checks the actual dosimeters from the Apollo missions. I looked up the numbers for Apollo 11 and they show the crew absorbed less radiation than a single cross-country flight does today. The belts are dangerous if you hang out in them, but Apollo went through the thinnest part real fast. That fact alone kills the whole "they would have been fried" argument for me.