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Update: I finally got my uncle to see the moon landing wasn't faked

He's been a hardcore skeptic for years, always bringing up the flag waving. Last weekend, I showed him a video from a science channel that recreated the lunar module's descent engine plume in a vacuum chamber. They proved the dust wouldn't billow like on Earth. After watching it three times, he just said 'Huh, that actually makes sense.' I think using a specific physics demo from a trusted source was the key. What's the one piece of evidence that finally changed someone's mind on a conspiracy you debated?
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vera195
vera1951mo ago
Ngl, some people really think one science video is gonna undo years of YouTube rabbit holes.
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max_brown
max_brown1mo ago
Nice! Sometimes you just need the right visual to cut through the noise.
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jadej50
jadej501mo ago
Exactly, @max_brown. A good picture can say what a thousand boring slides can't. It's like trying to explain a color to someone who's never seen it. You just have to show them. That's why all those text-heavy posts get lost. People scroll right past a wall of words. But one sharp image makes them stop. It cuts through all the other noise on the feed.
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jessica707
jessica7071mo ago
My art history professor always said it was a thousand words, not slides.
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