Spent 6 hours trying to debunk one moon landing photo

I got into this rabbit hole last Tuesday night just looking at old Apollo pics. Found one where the shadows seemed to go in different directions and I was like, okay let me actually trace this out. Turns out the terrain was just uneven and that explained it all. But man, I was down a deep rabbit hole for like 6 hours straight before I figured it out. I even had my buddy Dave from the truck stop look at it and he was stumped too. Now I get why people latch onto these details so hard, it really looks weird at first. Has anyone else spent way too long on a single piece of evidence like that?

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adams.spencer29d ago

Same kind of thing happens to me whenever I look at old photos of my house foundation. The brain just wants to see patterns where there aren't any, especially when the lighting is tricky. It is a lot easier to get stuck on one weird detail than to realize the real answer is usually just boring.

diana2029d ago

Oh man, I used to totally fall for that stuff too. But honestly @adams.spencer, reading your take really changed how I look at old photos now. The boring answer is almost always the right one, isn't it?