Finally stopped believing the moon landing was faked after I saw the lunar orbiter images from 2009

Those high-res shots of the landing sites showing the flags and rover tracks from a Japanese probe just lined up too perfectly with NASA's maps, and it took me three hours of comparing them to convince myself I was wrong, so has anyone else had a moment where raw data overrode a long-held doubt?

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jakeb8110d ago

Man that must have been a wild feeling to sit with for three hours. I know exactly what you mean about raw data just smashing a belief you held tight for years. For me it was the Apollo 16 moon rocks they gave to Norway to analyze. Seeing the isotopic signatures match up with Earth's mantle samples from Greenland was the nail in the coffin for my old doubts about the whole thing. It's humbling when the actual evidence just stares you in the face and you realize your gut was wrong. I still remember that hollow but relieved feeling of letting go of a comfortable story.

umar4910d ago

Wasn't that Apollo 16 though lol? Pretty sure it was Apollo 17 that brought back the samples that got analyzed in Norway.

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charles64010d ago

Wait, did you actually track down the raw isotope data from those Apollo 16 samples yourself or read the peer-reviewed paper? I've always wondered how many people who say they changed their minds about the moon rocks actually sat down with the published numbers versus just reading a summary online. Those Greenland mantle samples being a match to the lunar ones is a huge deal because it points to that giant impact theory where the moon was ripped out of Earth's crust. Did the isotopic ratios you saw line up closer to Earth's mantle or the crustal rocks when you looked at the actual tables?