The week I accidentally proved the moon landing was real

Last summer I spent 5 days digging through old NASA telemetry data from 1969 on a public archive site, looking for proof of a hoax. Instead I found signal patterns that matched modern satellite communications almost perfectly, with timestamps that lined up across multiple tracking stations. Has anyone else gone into a rabbit hole looking for one thing and found solid evidence for the opposite?

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tylerr399d ago

Honestly, that whole "look for a hoax, find the truth" thing is way more common than people think. A buddy of mine went down a rabbit hole trying to prove 9/11 was an inside job with controlled demolitions, and instead he found a bunch of engineering reports that basically confirmed the official story about the towers collapsing from fire and impact damage. He was pissed for a week, like he wasted all that time for nothing. But it's a good reminder that real evidence holds up under scrutiny, even when you're trying your hardest to tear it down. Those signal patterns you found sound a lot like what happens when you actually bother to check the sources instead of just repeating what some YouTube video says.

hannaht299d ago

Had a friend do the exact same thing with the moon landing hoax. Dude spent like three months digging through old NASA telemetry data and film analysis trying to prove the shadows were wrong. Ended up finding out the whole thing was legit, the shadows matched perfectly once you accounted for the uneven lunar surface and the wide angle lens on the camera. He was so mad about wasting all that time he didn't talk about conspiracy theories for like a year. Kind of funny how being skeptical the right way actually makes you less of a conspiracy theorist, not more.