I used to think the moon landing was staged, but a trip to Houston changed my mind.

I was in Houston for a family thing about two years ago and we visited the Space Center. I was fully in the 'it was a film studio' camp, just thought the tech wasn't there. But standing next to an actual Saturn V engine, this massive, complex, scorched piece of metal, it hit me. A docent, this older guy who used to work there, pointed at the welds and said, 'You can't fake that kind of heat scarring. That's from a real burn.' He walked us through the sheer scale of the rocket, the thousands of people involved, and the simple fact that the Soviets, who were watching everything, would have called it out instantly. It wasn't one thing, it was the weight of all the physical evidence right in front of me. I walked out of there feeling pretty silly for buying into the idea it was all a trick. Has anyone else had a moment where seeing something in person completely flipped a long-held conspiracy belief for them?

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rowan_thomas842d ago

Oh man, my buddy was the same way about the pyramids! He saw the stone blocks up close in Egypt and just said, "Nope, no way aliens did this.

anderson.piper2d ago

Those blocks are just big rocks, not alien tech.

finley_gonzalez492d ago

Your buddy's right, rowan_thomas84, aliens had better things to do.