Just realized I had to pick a side on the 'moon landing hoax' debate for a local talk

A friend asked me to join a panel at our library in Springfield last month, and I had to choose between arguing it was real or fake. I picked the 'real' side because I figured the evidence was stronger, even though the fake side has some fun points. I spent about $20 on a book of NASA photos to get my facts straight for the talk. It went okay, but the fake side guy brought up that old flag waving video and it got pretty heated. Has anyone else had to defend a mainstream view against a popular conspiracy theory like that?

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xena_fox3914d ago

The flag only waved because the pole was twisted during planting.

owens.ben4d ago

So how'd they get the twist to stop exactly when the camera cut?

shaneb1614d ago

Yeah but that flag thing is a huge problem, and xena_fox39 saying the pole was twisted doesn't cut it. You can see the flag moving after they let go, like there's a breeze. No air in a vacuum means no wind, so how does that work? The whole story has these weird gaps, like the missing original tapes and the crazy light angles in the photos. Spending money on a NASA book just gets you their official story, not the real facts. It's way more likely they faked it to win the space race than pulled off such a perfect mission with 1960s tech.