Rant: I had to pick between a flat earth meetup and a moon landing hoax lecture

So last month, my buddy in Austin dared me to go to one of these events for a laugh. The flat earth group was meeting at a park with a giant ball they said was their 'model,' and the moon landing lecture was at a library with a guy who claimed to have 'NASA insider' photos. I chose the lecture because it was indoors and had air conditioning, a big deal in Texas heat. The speaker spent an hour showing blurry pictures of what he said were studio props, pointing at shadows and saying the angles were wrong. Halfway through, he tried to sell us his self-published book for $40 cash only. The whole thing felt like a bad play, and I left more sure the moon landing was real than when I walked in. Has anyone else been to one of these talks and found the evidence just... sad?

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hannah_fisher581mo ago

That sounds like a total waste of an afternoon, but at least you got some AC out of it. These things always seem to fall apart when they get to the part where they ask for money. The evidence is never anything you can actually hold, just blurry photos and a lot of yelling about shadows. Makes you wonder who actually buys the book.

wood.uma1mo ago

Used to feel the same way as you hannah_fisher58, thought it was all just bad photos and people wanting cash. Then I watched this one talk where a guy showed the math, like actual numbers on flight paths and radar stuff that made no sense. It wasn't about a shadow or a blob, it was about a thing doing things that should be impossible. That got me. Now I just skip to the parts with the data, not the yelling.

craig.viola1mo ago

Blurry photos and a lot of yelling" reminds me of a time I got tricked into a timeshare pitch that felt the same way.