I spent $200 on a book about the 'real' moon landing and now I'm not sure what to believe

Last month, I bought a book online called 'One Small Lie' for about two hundred bucks. It was full of old photos and technical arguments about the Apollo missions. The writer said the shadows in the pictures were wrong and the flag shouldn't have moved. I'm an accountant, so I like numbers, and some of the math about the radiation belts got me thinking. But then I found a NASA site that explained it all with science. Has anyone else read something that made a solid case, only to find an even better answer that shut it down?

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the_jenny24d ago

Ugh, that's rough. I got deep into a rabbit hole about the flag waving thing once. The book never mentions they twisted the pole to make it look like that, and there's no air to slow the movement down. Felt kinda silly after I read the real explanation.

claireg8124d ago

Oh man, my buddy spent weeks convinced it was proof of a studio set. He printed out photos and drew lines on them, the whole deal. Then his kid found a NASA video showing the astronaut just turning the pole back and forth. The look on his face was priceless, like his whole world shifted. He still gets teased about it at game night.