I finally found a way to get through to my uncle about the moon landing

For years, my uncle in Tampa was convinced the whole thing was faked. Last month, I stopped arguing about the flag waving or the shadows. Instead, I asked him to explain the retroreflectors left on the surface that any major university's physics lab can bounce a laser off of today. He went quiet for a week, then called me and said, 'Okay, I looked that up.' He still has his doubts about other stuff, but it cracked the door open. What's one piece of evidence that actually made a skeptic you know pause?

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drewr151mo ago

Had a buddy stuck on the "no stars in the photos" thing. Told him to take his own camera out on a clear night and try to snap a pic of the moon with the landscape lit up. When his phone just showed a bright blob with a black sky, it finally clicked that camera settings for a sunlit surface won't catch dim stars. He shut up about that point real quick.

grant4781mo ago

That's a solid way to show it, @drewr15. I've had to explain the same thing about how cameras need a long exposure to grab stars, which just blows out anything bright in the shot.

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lewis.mila1mo ago

Yeah, @grant478, my first try just got a blurry mess.