Also, why is it that all hoaxer believers seem to think Apollo sprang up from no-where? Ranger, Surveyor, Mercury and Gemini seem jibberish to them.
Because hoax believers are almost uniformly ignorant of just about everything to do with space flight in general and the Apollo program in particular.
But there's another problem, and that's the conspiracists' inability to understand and properly apply context. It suits their desire to believe in a hoax, so they like to talk about, say, Apollo 11 in isolation (assuming they even know there were other missions). That allows them to appeal to the supposedly unique nature of the mission as an exception to technical history and claim that it sprung up out of nowhere (starting with "Kennedy shocked NASA by saying we'd go to the Moon") and then was whipped off the table like a magician's trick (e.g., "we never went back"). Of course, this completely ignores - well, is completely unaware of - the prodigious scientific and operational effort leading up to Apollo and the scientific and engineering results that came during and after the landings. Even when hoax believers do accumulate various facts, like a crow collecting twigs and shiny objects, they inevitably fail to place them into context (e.g., the Australian "polar orbit" kid) because, unlike the crow, they lack the disposition and ability to do so.
The flip side of the HBs' context deficit is that when they
do try to invoke context, it's a cargo-cult version of the real thing. Anything is connected to anything without regard for whether there's any kind of causal link, or evidence, or consistency; the only criterion is whether verbal or written association can sound kind of suspicious if made in enough of a sneering tone and your audience doesn't really understand the subject ("Wheat shipments! Killer electrons!")
It's the intellectual equivalent of watching political ads while stoked up on Cocoa Puffs and Red Bull. The conspiracists get some sort of neural gratification, but it doesn't match up well against people who are knowledgeable and willing to really engage in a discussion, rather than just grunting at each other on comments forums. That's why I don't intend to pay attention to Tindarormkimcha if he doesnt grow up a little; it's like arguing with a monkey in a cage flinging waste at you. There's no point and it only gratifies the monkey.
