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My uncle swore the moon landing was faked, then I showed him one photo from 1969 and he went quiet
He sat me down at his kitchen table in Duluth last month with a binder full of "proof," and I pulled up the Apollo 11 tracking data from the Parkes radio telescope in Australia that caught the whole thing live. He stared at it for maybe two minutes, then said "well maybe that part's real." So for the folks who believe it was shot in a studio, what do you do with the fact that multiple countries were listening in on the signal at the exact same time?
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julia28618d ago
Watching a guy go from "the whole thing was filmed in a desert" to "well maybe that part's real" in two minutes is my favorite kind of character growth. The Parkes dish, the Goldstone dish in California, and the Honeysuckle Creek station all grabbed the signal at the same time, and the Soviets were listening too because they would have loved nothing more than to catch us faking it. Imagine keeping a secret that big when your biggest rival is sitting there with headphones on, taking notes. Your uncle's binder probably has a whole page on the flag waving, which is funny since the flag is actually a known thing that happens when you shove a pole into a vacuum. Sounds like his binder met its match at the kitchen table.
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