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Can we talk about how the moon landing faked stuff actually got me into physics
Last month I was in a bar on Third Street in Austin, and this guy I know from the forum starts laying out why he thinks the 1969 moon landing was staged. I used to roll my eyes at that stuff, but he showed me a specific photo with shadows going different directions and a crosshair that was behind a module. After that, I went home and spent three hours reading about lunar surface albedo and camera focal lengths. Now I actually wonder if maybe some of the photos were staged for backup or propaganda, even if the event itself probably happened. Anyone else have a conspiracy theory that accidentally taught you real science?
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elizabethwhite7d ago
Three shadows in one photo, @lucasking, and suddenly I'm Googling "lunar surface albedo" like some kind of NASA intern.
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lucasking7d ago
Yeah the crosshair thing is what got me too. I spent a weekend reading about why flags in photos look like they're waving when there's no atmosphere. Actually learned a ton about vacuum physics and how materials behave differently without air pressure. Weird how shadow analysis taught me more about light angles than my high school physics class ever did.
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