Originally Posted by nomuse

The Moon Hoax kills itself in its own explanations for me. It is hoist on its own petard; if Hollywood had done it, they would have done a "better" job. The majority of the "clues" the hoaxers point out with glee -- missing stars, isotrophic reflectivity, behavior of dust with no atmosphere, lack of visible jets -- would all have been done wrong but convincingly by Hollywood. It is, in fact, the non-intuitive strangeness of the actual conditions that I find most immediately convincing. Real data is like that. Only faked data fits so closely to one's preconceptions.