@mmasnick @quinn @riana @danmcd @alecm @normative @mattblaze One other thing about the moon landing -- at peak, Apollo was, I think, something like 3% of the *entire* Federal budget. (IIRC, NASA as a whole was 5% -- and a lot of the non-Apollo expense was other Space Race stuff.)
Kinda misses the point, I know -- secure backdoors aren't possible at *any* price -- but it might at least get people advancing the "we went to the moon!" argument to see that there's something fishy about it.