Showerthought: I argued with a guy online about the moon landing being faked for 3 hours straight.

I finally just asked him to explain the flag 'waving' in a vacuum, and his only answer was 'special effects,' which actually made him pause. Has anyone else found that asking for a single, clear mechanical detail is the fastest way to shut down a wild claim?

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julia2863mo ago

Remember that whole thing about the Titanic sub implosion? I got stuck reading a thread where someone insisted it was a hoax. I just asked how they faked the international coast guard search patterns. The silence was pretty loud. Sometimes you just need one question that needs a real, boring answer.

tessa_roberts13mo ago

Did you ever get a real answer back, @julia286? Or did they just move on to the next wild idea?

tarab5413d ago

@julia286 hit it, that boring question always works. The bigger pattern I see is how people who buy into these wild ideas never actually want to think about the small, mechanical steps required. They'll nod along to a grand theory but go blank when you ask them to explain where the concrete would go or how the fake search grids would operate.