can anybody please tell me after watching this clip why the american flag is blowing in the wind on the moon?
http://switchboard.real.com/player/email.html?PV=6.0.12&&title=The%20answer%20is%20blowing%20in%20the%20wind%21&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ufos%2Daliens.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk%2FApollo1.rm
2007-02-27
02:27:19
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➔ Astronomy & Space
I am trying to prove anything about fake moon landings,i just wondered why it looks like its waving!
2007-02-27
02:43:08 ·
update #1
i meant i am not trying to prove anything!
2007-02-27
02:45:38 ·
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Its not waving in the wind.
The guy has hold of it and is wiggling it around.
The flag has a metal bar across the top to hold it out - the fabric hanging below this is bound to flap about because there is no air to damp the movement.
The conspiracy would be if it had stayed still. That would have meant there must have been air around.
2007-02-27 02:33:50
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answered by Anonymous
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In the most publicized picture of the flag on the moon neither astronaut is touching it, but it still seems to have shadows and ripples as if it were moving. In addition to the previous answers about harmonic motion, the telescoping rod across the top of the flag didn't extend fully causing the top part of the flag to be bunched up resulting in the shadows.
2007-02-27 16:23:34
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answered by J.J. 1
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Not every waving flag needs a breeze -- at least not in space. When astronauts were planting the flagpole they rotated it back and forth to better penetrate the lunar soil (anyone who's set a blunt tent-post will know how this works). So of course the flag waved! Unfurling a piece of rolled-up cloth with stored angular momentum will naturally result in waves and ripples -- no breeze required!
hey nice dream,here's why we didn't go back.....The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. US got there first and achieved their primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once they achieved the primary object, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.
2007-02-27 10:39:13
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answered by Tharu 3
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The waving of the flag is caused by 'material memory' ie. many fabrics and plastics have a 'molecular structural' memory. When you screw up some plastics and fabrics they have a tendency to unfurl, and try and regain their original shape, as with the flag, when broken out of storage on the craft.
2007-03-02 14:18:38
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answered by More or less Cosmic 4
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Sorry, but I refuse to have that adware ridden real player installed on my computer. But if it is the same as the quick time video in the source, then it it only waves because the astronauts are holding the pole and shaking it. One of the astronauts even says, "it does wave when you do that", where "that" is them shaking it.
2007-02-27 11:14:59
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answered by campbelp2002 7
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Does anyone really believe they went to the moon in 1969 with a craft literally as complex as a modern calculator?
It was a publicity stunt to 'beat' the russians who were way ahead at the time.
What If it had been real and it failed? The Americans would never had took that risk!
We never went, an if we had why has no one been there since the early 70's?
Why cant no one verify the footprints on the moon either?
There are none! I would like to be wrong but the more time goes by the more unlikely the whole thing seems. Also why didn't the russians follow?
Too many questions im afraid, and by the looks of it too many people who cant think any differently to what the tv in the corner tells them to think.
Doctor Q, I have a degree too. intelligence it seems, gets very lonely on yahoo answers
2007-02-27 10:44:40
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answered by Northern Spriggan 6
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It's not blowing in the wind. There are two reasons why it looks that way:
1. There is little gravity to pull it down.
2. Once "flapping", it keeps flapping because there is no air resistance to stop it.
This has been demonstrated in space time and time again. It is NOT some crazy conspiracy.
2007-02-27 10:36:30
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answered by fucose_man 5
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if you look closely you will see the flag is on a ridged pole and reacts not to wind but to the astronauts hand movements,oh and before you ask its ridged along the top of the flag to
2007-02-27 18:42:30
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answered by james m 1
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I'm with Nice Dream on this one - I really don't think they had the technology at the time to accomplish this.
The Russians on the other hand were much more practical at this sort of thing.
I think the main difference during this period was-:
If there was a challenge, the US would throw money at it, the Russians threw people at it.
God knows how many Russians went up to orbit the Earth before Yuri Gagarin actually came back in 1961.
Its amazing here at University how fellow lecturers are split on this issue - some believe it, other like me, don't.
2007-02-27 10:53:02
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answered by Doctor Q 6
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It's not. It's undergoing simple, harmonic motion (which it could *not* do if there were air resistance acting on it)
HTH âº
Doug
2007-02-27 10:40:26
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answered by doug_donaghue 7
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