Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing 206
TheNextCorner writes "Images taken by a NASA spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing. Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites. Scientists had previously examined photos of the Apollo landing sites for the flags, and had seen what looked like shadows cast by them on the lunar surface. Now, researchers have studied photos of the landing sites taken at different points during the day (and under different illuminations) and have observed shadows circling the points where the flags are thought to be."
Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think that the flags would've been knocked over by all that lunar wind by now.
But...but... (Score:5, Funny)
The conspiracy theory nuts keep telling us that the moon landings were fake!
Fake (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
Or the desert wind rolling north from Mexico...
Re:But...but... (Score:3, Funny)
They'll just say these photos are fake. They have to keep up the illusion.
Re:But...but... (Score:5, Funny)
oblig http://xkcd.com/1074/ [xkcd.com]
Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine having to go all the way back there and fix it.
Ms. Moneypenny, compose a letter to Bart Sibrel! (Score:5, Funny)
Dear Mr. Sibrel,
Hope that jaw doesn't ache too much from the jacking that Mr. Aldrin gave it.
Oh yeah, here's more proof from one of our lunar orbiters that there are, indeed, flags on the moon where the landings occurred and that all but one are still standing.
Hoax theory disproved bitch!
NASA
Re:But...but... (Score:5, Funny)
Coincidentally... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:this is interesting and all... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But...but... (Score:5, Funny)
The government was behind the moon landings!
No, seriously, the landings were faked, but they were filmed on the moon. We've had a base up there since 1958. "We can't film the dark side... for some reason."
It's a contrail factory.
I don't know what the big deal is... (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know what the big deal is...
You can see all the flags clearly by going to "Google Moon" and then go to street view.
Of course, they've blurred the license plates on all the LRVs.
Re:Whew! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But...but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who gives a shit? (Score:2, Funny)
The real conspiracy is that the US flag says, "Made In China".
Re:If we had any balls (Score:3, Funny)
Palin can see it from her house
Re:But...but... (Score:5, Funny)
And these photos just provide more ammunition to them if they spin it correctly.
Take the Apollo 16 site image. The lunar rover is parked some 100 metres from the LEM but everyone knows that an American would never park their vehicle that far from their destination.
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(Yeah, I know Young parked it there so the on-board camera could be used to capture the capsule ascent.)