Rant: I had to pick between a flat earth meetup and a moon landing hoax lecture
So last month, my buddy in Austin dared me to go to one of these events for a laugh. The flat earth group was meeting at a park with a giant ball they said was their 'model,' and the moon landing lecture was at a library with a guy who claimed to have 'NASA insider' photos. I chose the lecture because it was indoors and had air conditioning, a big deal in Texas heat. The speaker spent an hour showing blurry pictures of what he said were studio props, pointing at shadows and saying the angles were wrong. Halfway through, he tried to sell us his self-published book for $40 cash only. The whole thing felt like a bad play, and I left more sure the moon landing was real than when I walked in. Has anyone else been to one of these talks and found the evidence just... sad?