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He may not be able to understand shadows or reflections, but his projection game is really strong.

The most impressive thing is how you understood anything that guy was saying.

That's something that always bothers me about conspiracy theorists. Firstly, they're incredibly good at faking things... except for leaving these obvious clues, and secondly, they can swear hundred or thousands of ppl to secrecy... but they can't silence one crank on the internet.

"Each "each screw is in the same spot" Yes, that's known as a _design._

Crazy seeing people like this that are so self assured and confident in their super epic gotchas when it’s always just something that can be explained to an average 12 year old.

This guy must have his mind blown by the idiots on TikTok holding items behind a piece of paper against a mirror and marvelling at seeing their reflections.

For those of us that watched the moon landings in real time when it happened, there was no question of it being fake - none at all.

People who went to the Moon in that flimsy looking thing and the people who enabled it were real pioneers.

With such a detailed understanding of how reflections work, I guess it‘s just a matter of a few weeks until that guy can prove that his own mirror image is fake.

"a dishonest pizza sheet" - gotta remember that one. It's priceless!!!

Conspiracy theorists don't use logic, they find one small thing and focus on it, putting their own spin on it until it fits their narrative, at the same time using abuse as a poor attempt to silence those that actually make good points they don't like. Love it! Keep it up.

Remember when they finally admitted that pro wrestling was fake, but the hard core fans just carried on believing it was real anyway ?

One thing I have noticed over the years is that the people who are knowledgeable or even experts in their field never find it necessary to shout abuse. If, for example, Neil DeGrasse Tyson were to be questioned about the universe by somebody who had perhaps misunderstood something he would respond with facts and explain why and where the questioner had got it wrong. I don't think the would tell that person that they are a pizza sheet. The moment somebody starts using this sort of language you can safely dismiss everything else they might have to say.

Let's not forget that this denial is coming from the same guy who didn't understand timezones.

Dave, keep up the great work. The last time I "conversed" with flat earthers was over the first spacewalk - helmet movement. I showed them the difference between the space suit designs (the NASA descriptions for suit candidates through the different programs were available through a google search) and for my time and effort, I won the glorious label of "sock puppet" and was blocked. I've never tried again. They're hopeless...

I admire the amount of work you put into debunking these fools.

Given his obvious confusion over reflections, admittedly in a curved visor, I'm guessing this chap is also someone who might have posted one of those 'how can the mirror see this thing I've hidden from it using a piece of paper?' videos that are going around just now.

As a Dutch person I'd like to apologize for my fellow Dutch man, Quimfy aka 'dorpsgek'.

On behalf of the rest of the Dutch, I apologise that our education system pooped out such a turd.

Mr. McKeegan, I wanna thank you for what you do; as someone who used to doubt (although not downright disbelieve) we’d gone to the moon, what you and others like you do, really helped me. I subscribed to your page today, I hope it helps your numbers so you can keep doing what you’re doing. I love science and I love the truth. From the accent I take away that you’re British; the fact that you defend what America accomplished, (although be it not alone and not just for Americans) as an American, it helped me trust your lack of bias and that you just want to tell the truth. When one is subject to something it’s difficult to be objective, but when we’re standing on the outside of a problem our perspective is clearer. You’ve lent us your perspective. That you don’t abuse people who abuse you, when you prove them wrong, you just use the facts; is something I really respect. If you’re ever tempted to do so, don’t ever stoop to that level. It’s too easy. Thank you.

So one of his arguments is, "this highly technical, sophisticated, multi-million dollar vessel, specifically manufactured to high degrees of tolerance on an intricately designed level... is similar to other highly technical, sophisticated, multi-million dollar vessels, specifically manufactured to high degrees of tolerance on an intricately designed level, built in series in the same building right next to each other." Truly, a genius walks amongst us. Wonder if he's ever seen the inside of a car manufacturing factory. Shit would blow his goddamn mind.

Dave , I followed the Moon Landing hoax back when the original Fox "documentary" came out , but your work is some of the best and most concise debunking I've ever seen - keep up the great work

The indicator for when you have them against the ropes is they start throwing the insults first and the counter points afterwards.

Oh no! A flerf caught lying. I am much surprised. 😏 #GottaLieToFlerf 😂

"Pizza Sheet" 🤣 Love your content, and love how spoiled your pup is. 💙

Well done and I admire how you destroy his ranting with normal, well explained reasons.

usually conspiracy theories revolve around opaque subjects, hidden or classified. The Lunar Landings have so much information for everyone to glean that I would think it would be extremely difficult to hold the 'conspiracy' lens over these events. Frankly, I'm impressed with their stupidity but even more impressed with their boldness and blatant lies. Thanks for putting them in their place.

8:53 - it's interesting to actually compare the changes between those pictures. As we can see, on _Apollo_ 16 the vertical panels have been secured with one bolt in the middle, which clearly wasn't enough, since we can see that some of them have popped out during the landing. Probably because of that, the panels on _Apollo_ 17 are secured with _two_ bolts each now 🙂

I seriously had to re-watch 2:00 to 3:00 like 5 times to figure out what the hell they thought the problem was. Just over and over again I'm thinking "Why has he drawn this extra shadow in?" Just absolutely mind boggling that somebody can be so confused about something so trivial. I'm still not sure _why_ he thinks this way. I guess the angle of the shadows appears to be different due to the curved visor, so he assumed they must be different shadows, so he assumed the one in the visor must be cast by the thing it's obviously not being cast by, so he assumed it was fake? That's the best I've got, and it's _still_ astonishingly dumb.

The more someone calls you names, insults your intelligence and your ancestry... the more that individual feels threatened by you and the more insecure they feel.

I love watching you debunk conspiracy theories, you're do it in way that's there just to purely educate instead of humiliate. Makes your arguments feel so much stronger

Dave is a great newish addition to flerf destruction videos. We all know the deniers won't even watch the rebuttals but he has to do them for the fence sitters. The fact that he's a photography expert adds another tool to the debunkers. Flerfs will be like Lloyd in Dumb and Dumber scene, where he puts his fingers in his ears and shouts, NA NA NA NA so they can't hear the truth.

At the end you touched on my favorite callout when dealing with the NASA critics, they cant be both a ridiculously fundend all powerful boogeyman style entity, and also so dumb and bad at execution that they make glaringly obvious mistakes and are too lazy to edit out of fix them before sharing the images.

One of the first jobs after landing was to inspect and photograph the lander for assessing mission critical damage and to review and upgrade the next lander if required.

I used to be sceptical about man going to the moon, but since watching your series, I realized how naive I was! So thanks!!

I fully believed in the Apollo missions up until I downloaded TikTok. For a while I started to question it all. Thanks Dave for pulling me back to reality. I’ve learned a lot from you.

Is that Borat trying(and failing) to debunk the moon landing.

Yes, when there is a light, there are corresponding shadows. And, in that photo, there is only a single light, the Sun, and a single set of shadows, all parallel to one another. So, that buffoon can't shadow in addition of all of his other can't. We expect the screws to be on the same spots as they are attached to a frame that have pre-drilled holes for those screws. He also can't screw. #GottaLieToFlerf after all.

Once again, OUTSTANDING JOB DAVE! You never fail to impress and educate me. I also enjoyed how the Flat Earther's ridiculous Dutch accent made him sound like he was doing a comedy routine (my apologies to the rest of the Dutch who are not Flat Earthers).

The conspirators have to be both staggering brilliant, and abysmally stupid, at the same time. The conspiracy involves unlimited resources, and yet cuts massive corners. The conspiracy involves everyone in the world except the conspiracy theorist.

I love that you have such a calm and composed demeanor when responding. It's far more impressive than resorting to swearing and disrespect. Your exemplary models of even the simplest concepts and your in-depth knowledge of fascinating technological facts from various eras are the reasons why I love watching your content. You are a great, keap doing what you do!!!

You realize you've introduced a new insult into the flerf-insulting lexicon right? "Pizza sheet" is going to be everywhere soon. I love it!

The one who doesn't want to understand, will NOT understand. The image beautilfully depicted on Buzz Aldrin's helmet visor is a specular one. That is, it corresponds to the same image a mirror would have produced had it been placed on the site Buzz Aldrin was stepping on at the moment of the shot, with the only difference that it is limited to the surface of the visor and at the same time, distorted by the visor's spheroid curved surface. The sun is behind, up and to the left of Aldrin, so it projects Aldrin's shadow towards Armstrong, who is standing in front of Aldrin, shooting the camera. So, the long shadow shown on the visor is Aldrin's one, even lenghtened by the curvature of the visor. Armstrong's shadow is behind him... since Armstrong is looking at Aldrin and toward the sun that's behind Aldrin, at the same time. You can try to repeat the same yourself, using a mirror the size of the visor placed in front of your face, giving your back to the morning sun and asking somebody in front of you to take you a photograph with a mobile. You'll see your own shadow going towards the one who is taking the shot on the mirror... but it'll look much shorter since the mirror is supposed to be a flat one. If you don't want to believe, if all of that had been done in a studio, the sequence had been the same with the sole exception that the sun would have been a projector. There's no mysterious error that proves a conspiracy... Men were on the Moon and they are going to return there. All the feble proofs exposed by the conspiracy theorists are just junk. I believe it is time to cease this true affront on the memory of the ten crews (Apollos 8 through 17) that risked their lives to go there. And most of all, Americans would have to learn to honor the memory of those heros at least as much as I do even being from a foreigner origin!

So...the "idiot" caller forgot to take into account that the VISOR IS A ROUND MIRROR! I knew that when I was 10 year old!!!!! Aaaaaargh!!!

I would be shocked if the Lunar Modules are different to each other. You should ask him what car he drives or any vehicle he owns. Then ask to compare it to another one of the same make and model. If he says if it's all the same, then ask if him owning a car is fake. Imagine not building things to specifications. Well, you'd be out of luck to replace a headlamp or anything on your car. That was actually an issue when cars were handmade so basically everything was bespoke to a particular car. Any replacement parts, therefore, would need to be modified.

One of my favorites is a photo from Apollo 12 when they walked over to the Surveyor probe. The grainy xerox pic the conspirator used “showed” stage lights reflected in his visor… No. of course not. When you look at the original photo on film, it’s the underside of the solar array reflecting in his visor. But they used a photo from Life magazine for their “proof”

I like the way you think Dave. I AM that person who knows that EVERY 'speck' of info on the Apollo missions is online, free for all to see, and I would happily go through the photos and compare. I enjoy the hunt. Each time I see a moon landing denier say some dumb thing, I know I can just do a tiny bit of research and find the answer for him. He doesn't WANT to see the answer, but I know it is always there.

That was awesome. Thank you! Quinfy proudly stands atop Mount Stupid on the Dunning-Kruger graph.

5:00 You could have also pointed out any light behind Neil Armstrong would not only cast Aldrin's shadow (which we do not see) but would also also be clearly reflected in the darkness of Buzz's visor just above Armstrong's reflection.

Love how his cute Amsterdam accent doesn't go away when he tries to speak English 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Did he just fail to understand how a mirror works?

Excellent video. Gotta subscribe. Gotta watch some more videos from you Dave. In the 1980s i was in the US Navy working at Naval air station Point Mugu California. We had a Grumman aerospace engineer technical representative who was a civillian who worked with us assisting us on the more difficult work we encountered on our F-14a aircraft. His name is George Vengrouski. He told us he formerly had done some of the electrical wiring on some of the lunar landers that are yet still on the moon. He told us most all the electrical connections were gold plated. I was an aircraft electrician at that time and a young man. I'm now 60 years old and not gullible in the least. There seems to be a force in the world to discredit earlier generations accomplishments. I wondered why this is so. Its sort of pathetic. I had thought, its jealousy. But now thanks to Elon Musk, his generation has some things he has done to be proud of. I'm just perplexed at a number of other weird things out there. Beliefs or disbeliefs. Gotta scan through your past videos and see if you covered any. I WILL be sharing! 😮😮 thx.

You've highlighted that QNFE's ignorance is more than just willful. Well done.

The fact that these people have to verbally attack you with middleschool levels of profanity and toilet humor mean that have failed at life, and need to get one. Keep up the good work Dave.

Logic (and an actual background related to subject matter) are the bane of the feeble minded. Keep up the good work, Dave. Love your work!

This is absolutely brilliant.

I just realized who he sounds like. He sounds like the French tech support guy from that one episode of IT Crowd.

I now fully accept that this is the best earth/apollo explanation youtube channel on the globe

Leads with ad hominem attack... says it all. Thank you, Dave, for your expertise, patience and grace in dealing with lesser ‘men’. (And for having such a Glorious Pupper. ❤️)

In 1997, I was a technical officer at the Engineering Faculty on Monash University. One thing I love the most there was the lunch time banter with the doctors and professors. Not what we have now but then one could express an opinion no matter how bizarre and it gets dissected and we look at other hypothesis. Some of those hypothesis are then made to theories and experiments were made. One of those discussions were the introduction of the conspiracy theory of the lunar landing and because we're an engineering faculty, the professors which actually included the dean then were to make an experiment regarding this theory. In the discussion was the moon as they were to have a Lunar Laser retroflector. We managed to source the equipment including the laser which required special permits by the state and federal governments (which is why the dean was involved). Please note that this was well before Wikipedia, therefore we sent emails directly to NASA and they responded with the co-ordinates of all their retroflectors to the heads of departments. The engineers created the appropriate equipment that would point the laser at the correct co-ordinates within 5 metres. The laser was then the state of the art and powerful enough to reflect back to earth. The Vice Chancellor gave the approval to set the experiment on top of their main "Menzies Building" and the weather was great for one evening to the Apollo 11 site as it is the lunar landing that is being questioned and it is also east to position the laser to. The equipment was installed, tested and believed to be working. We have set the positioning to the site exactly and the dean had the honours in enabling the laser. The laser fired towards the moon and 2 seconds later the receiving unit which was 2 metres away received the signal. It was a good solid signal. This indicated that something on the moon reflected the laser and back to the point. We also had another similar receiving unit on the CSIRO side of the university (practically the other side 800 metres away where they were experimenting some new fangled wireless networking technology which is now called WiFi) so see if they could receive any signals simultaneously... apparently there was no signal. When we switched off the laser, two seconds later the receiving signal stopped. This correlated several times therefore concluding that the receiving signal is indeed the laser we produced and not an anomaly. We then positioned the laser 10 metres away to the north, south, east and west from the site and the signal was basically barren. Interestingly we made it this time 3 metres away and the signal was scattered or patriated. We then point the laser 800 metres away and the signal was the same to 10 metres... barren. This drew the following conclusions. As the position what NASA provided us as a university there is something retroflecting, not just reflecting where the beam is returning back to basically the same source location. This could not be lunar dust as the 8 metres and 800 metres proved that the dust would not reflect let alone retroflect. The unit has to be placed by something or some being which the best conclusion would be the Apollo 11 astronauts.

I love this guy’s insults. “You look like a door salesman!” Instant classic meme stuff right there!!

You've done an Angry Photographer, having somehow strayed from photography into more esoteric zones of science and thought, except in your case you are right on the ball! I really admire how you approach and reason with these theorists.

This is Gold, Please keep them coming .

It’s great to see the arguments of people who live on the left peak of the Dunning Kruger curve get destroyed with demonstrations. Keep up the good work.

This is the most attention anyone has ever given that Queen Fee guy.

Add reflections and shadows to the ever-growing list of things that flatheads continually struggle to comprehend.

I love how well you research and debunk these ideas!

Whenever I feel depressed or like I'm beneath anyone else these videos always seem to help, it genuinely blows my mind that people have such a lack of understanding of such basic concepts; thank you for keeping calm and staying professional in the face of absolute idiocy.

He's a real pizza sheet and a liar for doctoring that photograph.

When the deniers have to misrepresent evidence to give their claims something resembling credibility. Gotta lie to whatever this guy is doing

I am seriously amazed by the number of people who cant wrap their minds around mirrors. How do they drive? Are they just bewildered by the rear-views on their car and reflections in store windows?

Is the flerf drunk? Or did he get kicked in the head by a drunk mule?

Excellent content Dave. Thanks. NASA producers needs to look into their continuity personnel department for letting such blunders slip through on their movie sets.

Quimfy(?)’s voice makes me want to rip my ears off…I can feel my IQ dropping with every syllable.

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Brilliant 😂 I've just watched 4 of your excellent shows. Looks like you've put a lot of work and time into each video. Loving it ❤❤ . More please

Great job, I enjoy the evidence combined with restraint.

I love the distinct difference between people who use their brains for logic vs people who use their brains for conspiracy theories. The latter uses blatant insults as if that helps them make a point, and gives nothing constructive, while the former uses passive aggressive insults and actually explains things while being passive aggressive. In this case, aggression is deserved.

Thank you for keeping your vids professional and void of any profanity or putting focus on making fun of flat earthers but rather stick to evidence and explanation. This allows me to share this video with a greater audience.

damn, the way rusty reaches for your hand when you start explaining and stop scratching… i wanna give him love too

I really enjoy your explanations! Keep up the great work!

What cant flerfs or conspiracy folks ever be civil or try and discuss things without resorting to name calling? Its like they are all 7 year olds.

he's calling you a pizza sheet when he himself is a whole pizzeria

I love how your dog could care less how much knowledge you're dropping, it just wants some RUBBIES!!!! Too cute! ✌🏾

Great content. Keep up the good fight, brother.

I have a friend that is a moon landing denier (among other conspiracies). Just won’t listen to any reason. Gets all mad and starts banging on about the Van Allen belts etc. He even thinks the USA pay Russia a yearly fee to maintain the secret. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dave. I was rewatching a series called What We Saw: Apollo 11. It goes into the whole process of getting to the moon. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. Anyways, I appreciate the logic you are applying to this subject and will continue to watch all of these videos.

That guy sounds exactly like I imagined a flat earther would sound like

he's got to be joking ... if not then he could be easily out witted by a yoghurt

Awesome, another fine video, sounds like Dave's detractor is Mike Myers Goldmember character

Have you covered the effect in that photo showing the brightest light on the ground being around the head of the shadow of Buzz reflected in the visor? This is really cool physics effect which you can also see from a plane looking down at the shadow of the plane on clouds below or any similar situation and arises from the light being reflected back more effectively directly back to the source. I forget what the name of this is…google reminded me, it’s a glory. The fact that shows up in the /reflection/ showing from Buzz perspective, the light is correctly coming from a single bright source behind him and correctly reflecting a glory matching his shadow AND all the other shadows being correct - oh, and if I recall, this picture also has a tiny blue dot in the reflection in the visor in space, which is barely visible, but when you model the exact date time and location on the surface, it actually aligns with where earth would be in the visor reflection - a detail which if I recall, wasn’t spotted until something like the 2000s - and we’re expected to believe NASA took the trouble to work that out and include it in the set as a little Easter egg for people to discover 30+ years later? I love this photo because it’s the two of them on the moon, and with that blue dot, it’s also the whole of humanity and it’s history - minus just one person who isn’t in the photo…and it has the glory, and it demonstrates the physics of the reflected light in Buzz’s suit and…it’s frickin’ awesome.

I love that he resorted to insults. Shows he has nothing else to say

A leading Estonian flat earther once swore to beat me to the emergency room. It was years ago. Still waiting.

"Pizza sheet" is now my go-to Internet insult. Thank you for this. Also, obsessing over Rusty is pretty much unavoidable. Give pat on head from me.

Excellent work, Dave.

Well done, sir! I'm an amateur collector of conspiracy theories -- _not_ a conspiracy theorist myself -- and the flat earthers are a favorite form of entertainment. More precisely, the vids of you or SciMan Dan and others who debunk these folks are the go-to for me.

10:56 flying debris also shows how the color camera worked: Rotating color wheel in a B&W camera.

Great video like always 👍

"...and to create the effect that he thinks exists would need 2 lights." There are! 4! Lights!