how come when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon the flag was waving?

Answer 1

all questions about the six apollo lunar landings being fake are non-sense. nasa got a huge amount of evidence to prove that twelve americans have stepped onto lunar soil, and there is no evidence at all that says they didn't.

there are six american flags on the moon. each one has a sleeve across the top. the flagpole is hinged, and the hinged part goes thru the sleeve at the top of the flag. the flags did not wave. the flags sometimes swung from these rods when the astronauts put the flags on the moon because they moved them from side to side at times and the flags lagged behind some and had to catch up with the rods.

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5874HR.jpg

here is a photograph of the flag at the apollo 11 landing site. you can clearly see the rod in the sleeve across the top of the flag.

Answer 2

There was a recent article in Smithsonian about the moon hoax conspiracy. The author was talking about a little debate he had with someone who was convinced that it was faked. He went through all of the typical "flaws" and answered them... including why the flag appears to wave, which he explained simply as it "unfurling" (which is right but other people have described this in more detail).

He says that he finally shut the man up when he pointed out that even though this was during the cold war and the USSR (Russia) had got up the first satalites, the first men in space, they had been beaten to the moon (like losing the race to a one-legged man without his wheelchair or something...) yet they never disputed it. The more you research the moon landings and physics and astronomy, the more they make perfect sense. I'd be more surprised if they lacked these weird things. If they were faked I'm sure NASA would have forgotten something that gave it away... although I doubt that it would be to turn the fans off on a set...

Answer 3

1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


2) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

c) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.


4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!


5) What about the USSR?

Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.


6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?

Answer 4

Not waving in the breeze, that's for darned sure.

If you look closely at the photo -- which could never show "waving" because it is a still photo -- you can see the horizontal support bar that holds the flag extended so that it can be seen. The wrinkly effect on the flag is not "waving" -- but wrinkles in the plasticized fabric that didn't smooth out, and some shaking from the effort of putting the flagpole into the soil of the moon.

Now look at the video footage again, and watch closely what's happening -- there's no air on the moon to STOP the fabric from moving and wiggling after the flagpole was put into the ground.

Answer 5

They had an astronaut from the secret military base on the Moon in a completely black space suit shaking it. It was all part of an elaborate plot to convince the Russians that the base did not exist and Neil Armstrong WAS the first man on the Moon.

Now that IS a bull**** conspiracy.

Answer 6

This is one of the most popular 'proofs' used by morons who try to convince people that the US never landed on the moon. They suggest that the A/C in the studio was blowing the flag and since there is not atmosphere on the moon the flag shouldn't be waving.

The fact is...

The flag was on a pole and has a horizontal stick attached to the top of the flag to keep it standing outwards (since there is obviously no wind to billow it out). As they plant the flag, the material does wave a bit but this explained easy enough. Remember there is NO atmosphere on the moon. Therefore there is NOTHING to keep things from moving freely with even the slightest movement. Therefore any small movement in the pole will only amplified at the end of the flag and the horizontal stick. Therefore the 'waving' of the flag was due to minor movements of the pole and there being NO ATMOSPHERE to stop it.

Hope this answers the question.

And yes Virginia, man did land on the moon!

Answer 7

Look at the picture it has a support across the top of the flag it is not waving.

Answer 8

other forces were acting on the flag
there is no friction so there was nothing to stop the flag from moving.
as the flag was put in the ground the pole moved in turn transferring energy to the flag causing it to move.
the flag eventually stopped moving because of friction with the pole

p.s.
i am hoping that jake is just joking

Answer 9

Although they are in the process of giving civilians the opportunity to tour space(for the right price), there is still only a limited selection of individuals that have seen the Earth from space. These individuals and their superiors control the scientific evidence that is proposed to the population. They can alter it in any way that they please.
The whole landing on the moon thing was only a simulation broadcasted through the media in order to gain a phsycological advantage over the Soviets. It was extremely effective, however, we never landed on any moon, and the moon doesnt even exist, for that matter. The moon.. The stars, the sun, and anything that you identify as something in space is nothing more than a projection, an illusion that has been created in order to give us human beings a sensation of freedom, which is perceived through our 5 senses. You are incarcerated, and you are in the matrix.

Answer 10

It wasn't. It was being held in an extended position by a metal rod.