What is the deal with the American flag on the moon? why does it wave so when theirs no wind?

Answer 1

The flag that the Apollo astronauts put on the moon is held in the unfurled position by an aluminum rod running lengthwise across the top of the flag.

Answer 2

There is a rod holding the flag in the unfurled possition.
When the flag was put in the ground the rod did bounce a little, but not much.
The most famous flapping happened when the Lunar Lander took off from the moon. At that moment in time there was a large amount of material exhausted from the lander that bounced against everything at the landing site including the flag. That push from the exhaust is what made the flag move.

Answer 3

Agree with Ken! It wobbled due to the aluminum rod that was used to hold the flag straight. The mass of the rod being pushed into the moons surface caused it to wobble not unlike the wobble you would see in a double ended jack saw used in cutting lumber. These men were the bravesest of the brave! I wish we would spend the money to go back there and show these idiots that it was NOT a conspiracy! You have to first consider the 2 farm boy clods that came up with this idea and dont know much more than reaping the farm harvest or milkin a cow! These idiots had little or no intelligence in physics or photography! For instance, go stand under a parking lot light pole at nite with the light on and try to capture a picture of starlight!

Answer 4

It swung like a pendulum, it didn't 'wave'.

It was hanging from aluminum tubing assembled into an inverted L shape. The pole itself vibrated after it was released causing the loose end of the flag to swing back and forth. The largest motion I saw was the result of the astronauts elbow brushing through it as he was walking away.

If it was moving in the wind the center of the flag would have bulged and the bulge would become more shallow as it spread to the free edges.

The moon flag was moving, briefly after it was installed and whenever an astronaut touched it, but not in a way consistent with a similar sized flag inside our atmosphere.

Answer 5

Have you actually watched the video of the flag waving? You'll notice that it only "waves" when the astronauts are fiddling with it (it was hard for them to get the post into the ground). In fact if you watch it carefully, you'll notice that the way it moves CAN NOT be reproduced here on Earth where we have air. The way the flag moved is actually PROOF that they were on the Moon in an airless environment.

Answer 6

Pure physics here - not wind. The flag and its components have inertia imparted by the astronauts placement of it into the lunar surface. Newton's first law states: Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it. Objects "tend to keep on doing what they're doing." In fact, it is the natural tendency of objects to resist changes in their state of motion. This tendency to resist changes in their state of motion is described as inertia.

In the case of the moon flag, gravitation force imparted by the moon is the external force causing the flag to stop moving after the flag's movement inertia is used up.

Newton's second and third law are also at play here.

2d Law: The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

3d Law: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Answer 7

its because there is no gravity on the moon people so the flag stands straight out no mstter what but thats when Newton's universal law of gravity and motion comes in place when a opposite force is pushed against another object with equil amount of mass dencity and weight the object moves, so when they stuck it in the groung the flag and the moon were opposite gravity causing motion in the flag for only a short amount of time because the moon has no atmosphere casing less gravity to escape and gravity keeps it in place while the moon is orbiting around the sun at more that 1,000 MPH causing it to stand straight out!!! and r2 x pi = d3 that tells that the gravity is not enought to move the flag in a ripple.

Answer 8

What are you talking about?!? It doesn't wave at all! There is a wire in the flag to hold it up and make it look pretty. It only moves when something vibrates it, such as the LEM taking off nearby.

Answer 9

The flag is held that way with a wire frame.

Answer 10

It was wobbling because it had just been put in the ground. That's it. No conspiracy, no fake missions, they really went there and came back in one piece. The conspiracy story is cr*pola of the first order.