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The Mythbusters ‘NASA Moon Landing Hoax’ episode debuts tomorrow, August 27 at 9:00 p.m. ET on the Discovery Channel.

collectSPACE has a pretty good preview of the special. Jamie and the rest of the Mythbusters have low expectations when it comes to putting a rest to hoax speculation once and for all:

Conspiracy theories are not really a special category — maybe you can call them myths, but I look at them as an obsession that people want to maintain, like being abducted by aliens, Bigfoot and so on. You can’t really expect that reasonable evidence will change anyone’s mind if they are determined,” observed Hyneman. “Do we really think that the same government that screwed up so badly during the Watergate scandal could have perpetrated the moon hoax? Come on!”

That’s very true, and you could also look at it another way. Do we really think that the Nixon administration could have perpetrated such a huge coverup, and people would have actually kept it a secret? It seems like if there was any possibility that there was a Moon landing hoax, journalists all over the world would have been climbing out of the woodwork to prove that Neil Armstrong just took the most expensive back lot tour in history.