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Apollo Moon flags still standing

Except the one planted during the Apollo 11 landing

 Started by Waspie_Dwarf , Jul 30 2012 08:25 PM
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#1    Waspie_Dwarf

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:25 PM

Apollo Moon flags still standing


www.bbc.co.uk said:

Images taken by a Nasa spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing.

The photos from Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter (LRO) show the flags are still casting shadows - except the one planted during the Apollo 11 landing.

This matches Buzz Aldrin's account of the flag being knocked over by engine exhaust as Apollo 11 lifted off.

LRO was designed to produce the most detailed maps yet of the lunar surface.

Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites.

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:28 PM

Read this one earlier. It's quite cool, thanks for posting.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:33 PM

Well get back up there and fix it! ;)
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:35 PM

So much for the fake lunar landing stories.

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:40 PM

View Postquestionmark, on 30 July 2012 - 08:35 PM, said:

So much for the fake lunar landing stories.
The deniers will cling to it no matter what.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:42 PM

They haven't been stolen ? yet !  or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:48 PM

View Postspud the mackem, on 30 July 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

They haven't been stolen ? yet !  or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !
Those that come after us might vandalize the sites if they're petty enough, but they can't really change history.  A FREE nation inhabited by FREE peoples did that and no one can ever change that fact.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:49 PM

View Postspud the mackem, on 30 July 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

They haven't been stolen ? yet !  or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it !
What is it with you and the Chinese on the moon? Every story about the moon we get a post like this. You could at least try to make posts based on fact.

China has yet to land even an unmanned craft on the moon.

China does not have a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of sending a manned spacecraft to the moon.

China will not be in a position to land a man on the moon until at least 2020, probably much later.
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:51 PM

View Postand then, on 30 July 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

Those that come after us might vandalize the sites if they're petty enough, but they can't really change history.  A FREE nation inhabited by FREE peoples did that and no one can ever change that fact.
Funny I didn't realise the UK landed first. :P

Just joking.

Edited by Waspie_Dwarf, 30 July 2012 - 08:52 PM.

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Posted 30 July 2012 - 08:52 PM

Yeah its interesting I guess
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 09:11 PM

View PostWaspie_Dwarf, on 30 July 2012 - 08:49 PM, said:

What is it with you and the Chinese on the moon? Every story about the moon we get a post like this. You could at least try to make posts based on fact.

China has yet to land even an unmanned craft on the moon.

China does not have a heavy-lift launch vehicle capable of sending a manned spacecraft to the moon.

China will not be in a position to land a man on the moon until at least 2020, probably much later.
  ok dont get umptybacked about it,
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Posted 30 July 2012 - 09:26 PM

View PostWaspie_Dwarf, on 30 July 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:

Funny I didn't realise the UK landed first. :P

Just joking.
Oh, trust me Waspie - I give credit where it's due, I just try not to mention too loudly or too often that our cousins across the pond were the original hard heads that peopled this nation :P
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Posted 31 July 2012 - 12:02 PM

And just where would they have gone?

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 12:45 PM

View PostPainnsufferin, on 31 July 2012 - 12:02 PM, said:

And just where would they have gone?

I heard that Richard Kiel stole the flags when they were up there filming the Bond movie 'Moonraker'. :P

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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Posted 31 July 2012 - 12:59 PM

It seems like every day the conspiracists and deniers just look more and more pathetic.

"But, but, Rafterman, these could have easily been faked."

Right, because if I had faked humanities greatest and most public achievement (six times just for the heck of it) the first thing I'd want to do is spend a few more billion dollars to send a satellite up there to take pictures knowing I'd have to fake the results with such accuracy that no one would be able to tell they were fake.

Makes perfect sense to me.
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