Found a cheap trick for debunking fake moon landing photos

I got tired of arguing with my buddy Dave about the moon landing hoax. Every time I showed him NASA's official photos he just said they were fake. So I tried something different. I downloaded a free EXIF data viewer and pulled the metadata from a few Apollo shots on the NASA website. Turns out the camera settings like shutter speed and aperture matched exactly what you'd need for the lighting conditions on the moon. That shut Dave up fast. I even found timestamps that lined up with the mission logs. Has anyone else used metadata to prove a conspiracy theory is garbage?

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val_ramirez2d ago

Gotta disagree with you here, man. Metadata is super easy to fake or edit, anybody with basic photoshop skills can change timestamps and camera settings in a few clicks. So showing Dave a bunch of numbers from a free app doesn't really prove anything to someone who already thinks the whole thing is a setup lol. Also NASA could have just added that metadata later to make the photos look more legit if they were trying to hide something. I get the frustration with conspiracy friends but this trick only works on people who already trust the source, which Dave clearly doesn't.

felixhenderson2d ago

This trick only works on people who already trust the source" - that's kinda the whole point though, right? If Dave won't believe anything NASA puts out, why would he believe a timestamp from some random app on your phone? But honestly, I'm more shocked you think NASA would bother photoshopping metadata into their moon photos. Like, the guys who landed a vehicle on another planet using 1960s computer technology are gonna sit around editing JPEG headers to cover up a fake moon landing? That's a lot of extra work for an already elaborate hoax.

angela_hart2d ago

Has anyone actually tried explaining metadata to someone who thinks birds aren't real?