Keflavik76: But I have to draw the line with duct tape. Without duct tape the men on apollo 13 never would have made it back.
It should be of interest to you that duct tape's operating range is rated to be 180 degrees Fahrenheit. A special variety can function in extreme temperatures as high as 200F for less demanding purposes. By contrast, it has long been known that that the moon's surface temperature reaches 250F daily, thus duct tape's glue would crystalize and fall off.
Did you not notice the Rover's seats that were mangled and bent if not broken?
Are you thinking to excuse the vaunted NASA engineers that were accused of losing the technology to reach the moon that they also were unable to read the duct tape manufacturers' specifications?
Even if a laser were to be bounce off a reflector on the moon, it wouldn't necessarily prove humans walked there to place it. Please point out where this reflector supposedly is on the flag allegedly planted by Armstrong/Aldrin. If there even is a reflector on that flag, you think a laser from Earth can train precisely on its < 0.5" vertically-viewed surface?
Speaking of 250F surface temperatures (the internal built-up heat for which no technology existed to adequately radiate, vent, heat-pump or exhaust way from a lunar astronaut via the PLSS), there could be no moisture in the moon's regolith to cohere to allow a coherence that would form any footprint or rover track. Foot falls would appear somewhat as they do in Earth's driest desert, not the crisp, high-contrast image of Armstrong's boot that's been paraded through the media for fifty-two years. The picture clear implies regolith had caked up on his boot somehow, to be deposited with his very first footfall.
Unlike what's been shown off at the Smithsonian for several decades, what they spent billions to actually deliver should embarrass any self-respecting NASA engineer. This could be picked apart at length, but the point is, when Neil Armstrong was asked years later on camera why we never returned to the moon, he said "Because we didn't go."
