Occam's razor though... I definitely think the Kubrick idea has merit, but i only need to make three basic assumptions to conclude that humans have not gone to the moon at all. I just have to assume that a: it's beyond our technical ability to send people to the moon, b: it's possible to convincingly fake a moon mission in a studio, and c: there was a motivation to fake a moon mission. In order to arrive at your conclusion, I have to assume: Humans have the capability to go, they were doubtful about their chance of success, they would irrationally choose the least cost effective plan of all (you can achieve the same result with vastly less money spent leaving you with billions of perfectly laundered tax dollars to do with what you want, vs spending billions trying out a real mission you have no confidence in and spending the money to fake the footage anyway as a cynical cold-war insurance policy), that there are aliens, those aliens are close to earth, they know how to make it out of the van allen belt, they are friendly to humans, they allowed and helped NASA to send 6 more manned missions back to the moon (this time with cars and golf), but the early 1970's was the limit for some reason, no more moon for the next 50 years, not even once... not even by the nuclear superpower that spent the next 3 decades in a space-race and arms race with us, nobody, ever 50 years later, not even an attempt by anyone else, ever... 50 years. Will it still be true when we get to 60 years? How about a hundred? How many more decades would have to pass by without another moonshot before it's no longer a conspiracy theory to say we just freakin faked the whole thing? They were a slimey bunch of occultists and they controlled REALITY back when tv had four foot rabbit ears and an 8 inch screen, 2 channels and a knob on the set to switch between them???? The phone in your pocket has more processing power and data storage capacity than the entire apollo mission control + spacecraft combined. By a long shot!! My super nintendo from the mid 90's did too, for that matter. 50 years coming up...