The moon reflector fallacy is one of the biggest that RE'ers throw around in their desperation to prove that the moon landings were real.
What is it that makes you think it's a fallacy?
1. We have supposedly been bouncing lasers off the moon since the early 50s, nearly a decade before NASA supposedly put a retroreflector on the moon.
So? This doesn't mean they
didn't put retroflectors on the moon for better accuracy.
2. You people make it out that anyone can perform this experiment. The reality is that there are not very many entities who have a laser powerful enough or receivers sensitive enough to perform this experiment.
Which people make out that anyone can perform this experiment? Why would it be expected to be widely available?
The ones that do are funded by the government, so you have to trust that the government would never lie in order to fully trust in these experiments.
You don't have to trust that the government would never lie, you only have to trust that they are not lying about this.
3. The waiting list to have them shoot a laser at the moon for you is years long and very expensive.
I'm not surprised about this, but do you have a source?
4. It is claimed that when they shine the laser at the moon, they get back just a few of the photons that they send. You have to just take their word for it that these few photons are even the same ones they shot out of their laser.
Do you have any reason not to take their word for it?
5. Even if you managed to get them to shine their laser at the moon for you, it takes weeks or months to get the data for the experiment back. Why does it take so long to process this little bit of data from the few photons they receive back?
I'm sure there are reasons why it takes so long. Perhaps your source explains why?
6. Does this smell a little fishy to you yet?
Not at all. Does it to you?