I decided to fact-check a viral 'Moon landing hoax' video frame by frame and found the 'smoking gun' was just a camera artifact from a 1999 documentary.

After spending about four hours cross-referencing the original Apollo 11 footage with NASA's technical documents, I realized the 'anomaly' was a known lens flare effect that gets mislabeled constantly, so what's a conspiracy that completely fell apart for you under basic scrutiny?

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theaallen2mo ago

Flat Earth fell apart when I tried to apply it to basic airline routes. The flight paths we actually use make zero sense on a flat map. What's a theory that collapsed for you once you checked the practical stuff?

price.zara2mo ago

But that's exactly what they want you to believe.

zara_miller2mo ago

My last three conspiracy theory deep dives all started with that exact feeling. You're right on the money, price.zara. I probably need to accept that I'm the target audience for a good rabbit hole.