If i remember that episode, All the data for that episode was provided by and carried out by the scientist using equipment belonging to them. Not independently. How convenient their outcomes and measurements shown on the show match their claims.

R.i.p Grant Imahara

Of course.

It's actually a bit challenging to point a laser just to the exact location, and keep it there since everything is moving, but we have such technology.

Here's a [mythbusters episode](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmVxSFnjYCA) on exactly this.

They first send a laser to the moon at an empty place, and they just detect low level background information.

Then they shine the laser at the retroreflector, and you can see the spike.

nullama

**He said without any data to prove it**

Ok but if these spikes happen any more times than in Six different places i'm calling bullshit. 

Ribbit

How many people here believe that man did go to the moon?

iguano

True, the light we see from it is coming from the Sun.

But the measurement you get from shining a laser into these retroreflectors is orders of magnitude larger than what you would get if there were no retroreflectors and point at the moon. You can literally do that now, you get a very low reading while pointing at another surface on the moon and the moment you get to the retroreflector it spikes.