Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 30, 2012 #1 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Apollo Moon flags still standing 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. Read more... Edited July 31, 2012 by Waspie_Dwarf corrected title 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExpandMyMind Posted July 30, 2012 #2 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Read this one earlier. It's quite cool, thanks for posting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Meadows Posted July 30, 2012 #3 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Well get back up there and fix it! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
questionmark Posted July 30, 2012 #4 Share Posted July 30, 2012 So much for the fake lunar landing stories. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Meadows Posted July 30, 2012 #5 Share Posted July 30, 2012 So much for the fake lunar landing stories. The deniers will cling to it no matter what. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted July 30, 2012 #6 Share Posted July 30, 2012 They haven't been stolen ? yet ! or maybe replaced by a red flag with a crescent moon and 4 stars on it ! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted July 30, 2012 #7 Share Posted July 30, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 30, 2012 Author #8 Share Posted July 30, 2012 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 30, 2012 Author #9 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) 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. Just joking. Edited July 30, 2012 by Waspie_Dwarf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReaperS_ParadoX Posted July 30, 2012 #10 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yeah its interesting I guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud the mackem Posted July 30, 2012 #11 Share Posted July 30, 2012 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, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+and-then Posted July 30, 2012 #12 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Funny I didn't realise the UK landed first. 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painnsufferin Posted July 31, 2012 #13 Share Posted July 31, 2012 And just where would they have gone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiffSplitkins Posted July 31, 2012 #14 Share Posted July 31, 2012 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'. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rafterman Posted July 31, 2012 #15 Share Posted July 31, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted July 31, 2012 #16 Share Posted July 31, 2012 (edited) 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. Well.... It wouldn't be possible without a Nazi rocket engineer..... lol (well my wording is wrong, cause thye coudl ahve done it later but I emnat that exact time.. you know what i mean) Edited July 31, 2012 by Coffey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzard Posted July 31, 2012 #17 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Is this the death of the moonies hoax theory,...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Fluffs Posted July 31, 2012 #18 Share Posted July 31, 2012 I'd love to sell one of those flags on eBay... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted July 31, 2012 #19 Share Posted July 31, 2012 Is this the death of the moonies hoax theory,...? Of cours eit isn't and not because people who beleive it was a Hoax will ignore this, but because how does it actually prove anything. The pictures could be fake and nobody would know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted July 31, 2012 Author #20 Share Posted July 31, 2012 And just where would they have gone? It's not a matter of them "going anywhere" it's just that most experts on the subject believed that the harsh environment would have caused the fabric of the flags to disintegrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewiesArmy Posted August 1, 2012 #21 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Of cours eit isn't and not because people who beleive it was a Hoax will ignore this, but because how does it actually prove anything. The pictures could be fake and nobody would know. But why would they fake pictures of this now? Pretty much anybody in the space program then are now retired or dead. NASA could care less if there are people out there that think we faked the landing 40+ years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junior Chubb Posted August 1, 2012 #22 Share Posted August 1, 2012 (edited) Hang on a minute, if these pictures are fake are they the 'False Flags' people keep banging on about in other threads? Imagine if they 'attacked' or carried out an 'operation' what would happen then......? Edited August 1, 2012 by Junior Chubb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted August 1, 2012 Author #23 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Can we forget the hoax theory stuff and remain on topic just this one time please. That stuff has a forum of it's own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DONTEATUS Posted August 1, 2012 #24 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Well I would think that someday we will return to the Moon And THen THe images will amaze just as the First ones did from the late 60`s ! Cant wait ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csspwns Posted August 1, 2012 #25 Share Posted August 1, 2012 what would really have been interesting is a flag of an alien race on the moon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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