There is a belief amongst some that Man Went To The Moon.
In the past, the scientific greybeards of the day could get away with puffing on their pipes and showing a bit of "moon dust" sweepage, or playing a video over the airwaves and telling everyone it's live.
However, modern folks have the Interwebz, and have discovered the lunar fallacies* bequeathed by friend Greybeard.
And so they are held to task on these inaccuracies, and many a backwards step taken, and much confessionals of photographical fakeage and the like. However, they still stand by their claim of Clanger visitation.
The latest "conclusive evidence" proffered by modern day greybeard (somewhat bereft of beard and pipe, with possibly a goatee and nicotine patch) seems a tad desperate even to me!
It seems that one of them observatories (Jordan Spermbank probably) fires a laser at the Apollo 15 landing site. At this site, Buzz Lightyear and Louis Armstrong left behind a cleverly designed mirror they forgot to pack after posing in front of it in their spacesuits (and to make it look like twice the spacemens, as it's somewhat lonesome up there).
Apparently, the arsetronomers do this in order to measure the distance between the Moon and Earth, because the laser beam is reflected back by this mirror. This is conclusive proof that we landed on the moon. End of.
And they say I talk bobbins!
For a start off, why traipse all the way to the Moon with this complicated mirror so a laser can measure how far away it is? Any normal person would read the mileometer** on the Space Shuttle when you got home and divide the total by two!
Besides, I've seen Tommy "DIY" Walsh on QVC. You can get laser tape measures that you place on a wall and it tells you how far away the opposite wall is - without requiring a mirror! Why waste squillions of squid when you can get a £4.99 tape measure that'll do the job! The moons a bit bigger than an opposite wall, so you can't really miss it and accidentally measure the distance to Alpha Centauri by accident.
Anyhow, the mirror wouldn't work, coz it'd be covered in manky moondust sprayed all over it as the rocket took off, thus negating it's reflectivity. And even if they did leave a Mrs Mop behind to polish it every day, the chances of the beam hitting the mirror and returning straight along the same path is astrophysically astronomical! More likely the laser would bounce back at an angle, cutting and burning the planet up***!
Also - have you ever tried to look at The Moon through an Argos telescope? You have to constantly wiggle it about, as it moves quite quickly.
And once you've finished ogling the nubile neighbour's botoxed buttocks, you realise the Lunar Moon also takes a lot of telescopic maneuvery to keep it focused and in sight. Let alone trying to keep your laser pointer trained on the relatively teeny mirror in some crater on a rotating spheroid miles and miles away!
Conclusive proof, my best hat!!
* That's fallacies as in untruths. Nor Phalluses, which are altogether different. Albeit on the dark side of the moon.
** You can't call it a Speedometer, coz then folks would be constantly looking at speedos while driving. And I, for one, do not want to be distracted from autovehicular steerage by budgie-smugglers creeping into my peripherals. Eww, no thank you very much!
*** Although, to be fair, the laser beam could be the cause of them Spontaneous Human Combustions, where poor innocent dear little white haired loveable old grannies are incendiaried to death by a rogue heat-ray, just coz some gormster of a boffin wanted to know the distance to the moon!
