> And it's not like you can point a telescope at the moon and see the flags or other evidence. You can. The Apollo missions left mirrors on the lunar surface,

> And it's not like you can point a telescope at the moon and see the flags or other evidence. You can. The Apollo missions left mirrors on the lunar surface, so that lasers aimed at those coordinates would have their light bounce back toward Earth. That's not fakeable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment