Mythbustin' the Moon Hoax, Part V: The review!

The day has dawned, the clock has rung, the time has come, calloo callay! Tonight, the Mythbusters take on the Moon Hoax (check your local listings)! OK, for you newbies, read Parts 1 - 4 (here, here, here, and here). That'll catch you up on the history. I was able to get an advance copy of the show -- I have powers beyond those of mortal men... or maybe I'm just on a Discovery Channel mailing list for the show, and I asked for a DVD when they said they'd send them to journalists -- and let me say, it's really good. One of their best, in fact! I can't reveal the results of their tests, but I will say that however each of the tests did in fact turn out, I could see why they came to the conclusion of "busted, confirmed, or plausible" for each. Having helped them with some of the tests, it was very cool to see the results on screen. They tackle several of the biggies, including why shadows on the Moon appear to be non-parallel. To my great surprise, they came to a somewhat different conclusion than I usually claim for this. I will have to amend my own discussion of this when I give my Moon Hoax talk. Seriously. Nice work on the MB team's part! Oddly, one thing that stood out for me was the pronunciation on the show of the word "regolith" (the powdery surface dust on the Moon). I have always said rehg-o-lith, but they all said reeg-o-lith. Now, they talked to NASA folks who must know how to pronounce the word, so you'd think that was right. The thing is, I've talked to experts as well, and the ones I know say it the way I do! So now I'll have to dig into this (haha! Dig! It's regolith!) a little deeper. Interesting.