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>>226456 >>wouldn't somebody be able to use a telescope and say "oh look, there's an American flag"?
Ever hear of lunar ranging?
http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/basics.html
Simply put, the Apollo astronauts left some mirrors on the surface of the moon which are used today to measure the distance from the moon to the earth using lasers.
>>We measure to the retroreflector arrays left on the moon by the Apollo astronauts, and by an unmanned Soviet rover carrying a French-built reflector.
http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/lrrr.html
>>The Apollo 11 retroreflector array, consisting of 100 corner-cube prisms in a 10×10 array. Each corner cube is made of fused silica (quartz) and is 3.8 cm in diameter. The palette is 0.45 meters square, and carefully designed to minimize thermal gradients across the corner cubes as the array is slammed into and out of the sun's rays as the moon's phase changes.
Also, it would have been impossible to fake the moon landings (impossible to fake a space flight period) at the time just as it's impossible to do so today. Even in the late 1960's the Soviets were able to track very tiny objects in space.
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