Ran into a guy at a gun show who changed how I look at moon landing photos

This was back in 2019 at a show in Knoxville. I was standing by a table selling old NASA books and this older guy, probably in his 70s, starts flipping through one about Apollo missions. He points at a photo and says the shadows are wrong, too many different angles for one light source. I kind of laughed it off but he spent the next 10 minutes showing me how the flag shadows and rock shadows didn't match up. He wasn't aggressive about it, just real calm and specific. I still think we went to the moon, but I can't unsee those shadow details now. Anyone else have a random encounter like that where one person's observation stuck with you?

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wyatt_shah8515d ago

That "one detail changes everything" thing happens to me with license plates and street signs too, now I can't stop noticing font differences.

williams9015d ago

Stop overthinking it and just accept that some things are never meant to make sense. @wyatt_shah85 you're probably the same guy who notices the font on a stop sign is slightly off and then can't sleep that night. That shadow thing is like the moon landing version of realizing all the clocks in a movie are set to 10:10, it haunts you forever. Next thing you know you'll be staring at road signs going "why is that 'S' a different size?