Debate: Was the Moon landing footage faked? I went back and forth on this after Talk 3 years ago with a guy at a bar in Phoenix

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The bar in Phoenix thing reminds me that a lot of these urban legends start from someone who heard it from a friend. There's a simple reason the footage looks odd to some people, which is that the film cameras used at the time had to run at a different speed in the vacuum of space. It's worth looking up the technical reasons for that before buying into any conspiracy theories.

the_nancy1d ago

What if the friend who started the rumor actually worked on the Apollo missions and knew the real story?

avery_fox931d agoMost Upvoted

Oh man, this actually reminds me of something that happened to a buddy of mine a few years back. He was dead set that an old grainy video from a 70s news report showed a UFO over Albuquerque. Spent weeks on forums trying to prove it. Then his uncle, who worked at a TV station back then, told him the camera they used had a sync issue with the power grid frequency. The whole thing was just a reflection off a weather balloon mixed with a glitchy tape. He was so mad he stopped talking about UFOs for like a year.