The thing that bothers me about the hoax theories is that the best “anomalies” stem from gross ignorance.
The crosshair’s bit is one of the worst. What would that actually explain? Are people implieing that they actually propped up a giant crosshair behind objects?
That we should see stars with that sort of exposure time? Have you ever, ever tried to photograph stars? I don’t think so.
The absolute worst is “How could we go to the moon with a computer with so little power on board?” That’s a statement that comes from someone who isn’t a programmer. (Maybe a Java programmer?) Computers were used very, very extensively in the program, but most of them on the ground. The workload onboard was small beans for even the crudest of computers.
The shadows are on uneven surface. Light reflects off ground and objects. Dust moves in parabolic arcs. Flags wave when you move them. etc. The Van Allen belt exposure they got was equal to a chest x-ray. etc.
I’ll tell you what’s not right about it; how come the Soviets never tried to hoax it? If you think the Soviets would have any qualms about lieing about it, you don’t know enough about the Soviets. The soviets had enough control over their media and people that they’d have a far easier time pulling it off than the US.
But even they didn’t try that one.
Plus, while the soviets have a nice list of firsts, so does the US – including things that were far more relevant to the actual execution of the moon landing, such as extravehicular activity. And they were usually behind the Soviet’s firsts by mere weeks.
Even hinting the Americans could’ve actually accomplished such a hoax is pissing on Russia’s intelligence agency.
The rocks probably do “look” like ones in your backyard, but that’s because your not a geologist. There are moon origin meteorites, but not without signs of atmospheric entry or local contamination.
How come NASA isn’t trying to prove the hoax theory wrong? It’s simple:
*All* of the complaints have been thoroughly refuted over and over and over again, and anything else they could ~possibly~ offer is just as fallible.
Going back? If they could hoax it before they can do it now.
Satellite photo? Computer graphics. Something they DIDN’T have in 1969.
How come so many government conspiracies involve much, much smaller numbers of people get blown out of the water? The fact that people can name so many famous government conspiracies that got away is more telling. The moon hoax would be 10,000 times harder to fake than blowing something up and pointing fingers.