asterisk8 said:

The simplest pieces of evidence that are impossible to refute without inventing top-secret technology:

The fact that amateur and professional radio enthusiasts tracked Apollo 11 all the way to the moon. They could hear every transmission, and had to adjust their equipment regularly as the earth rotated to remain fixed on the transmission. What were they tracking? There was some actual object transmitting radio frequencies as it traveled from the earth to the moon.

Apollo 11 astronauts installed laser range-finding retroreflectors that anyone with laser range-finding equipment could use to measure the distance of the moon. Someone/something installed those things at precisely the right angle to allow universities and laboratories around the world to aim their lasers and take these measurements as early as July 1969. How did they get there?

In order to hoax these two pieces of evidence - pieces of evidence that were available to people AROUND THE WORLD - we need to imagine advanced secret technology available to NASA, and we're back at the important question: If NASA had all this top-secret technology and the means to pull off a conspiracy of this magnitude, why is it so hard to believe they had the means to strap a few death-defying test pilots to a rocket and fire it at the moon?

What I see, all too often, the common denominator among moon hoax theorists, is a distrust of the American government. We start with the conclusion that "The American government is a pack of lying conspirators," and then we work backwards to get to, "The moon landing was a hoax."

[pretending to be a conspiracy nut]

you're just a stooge bought and paid for by the man!

[/pretending to be a conspiracy nut]