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You might have seen pictures of the American flag waving on the moon. Did that occur to you as being kind of odd? It might not have, but Don and Yael discuss why it's not even possible--and how they got it to "wave." Flag on Moon
D: Yael, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but I must admit that those photographs of the moon landing make me suspicious. I mean, the flag in those pictures of Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong is rippling in the wind, and everyone knows that there is no atmosphere on the moon. And no atmosphere means no breeze.
Y: Well, as you can imagine, the folks who came up with the idea of taking an American flag to the moon were aware that unless they rigged something up, the flag would just hang there. So they built a special flagpole expressly for the purpose of making the flag appear to fly.
D: So our tax dollars went to work reinventing the flag pole?
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2006-09-01
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