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Apollo Moon Landing Flags Still Standing, Photos Reveal
Space.com via Yahoo News ^ | 7/30/12 | Clara Moskowitz

Posted on 07/30/2012 12:39:57 PM PDT by Kartographer

An enduring question ever since the manned moon landings of the 1960s has been: Are the flags planted by the astronauts still standing?

Now, lunar scientists say the verdict is in from the latest photos of the moon taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC): Most do, in fact, still stand.

"From the LROC images it is now certain that the American flags are still standing and casting shadows at all of the sites, except Apollo 11," LROC principal investigator Mark Robinson wrote in a recent blog post. "Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct!"

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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"And our flag was still there...."
1 posted on 07/30/2012 12:40:02 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: Kartographer

Till China collects them and puts em up for sale on Ebay.


2 posted on 07/30/2012 12:45:21 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Kartographer

I thought that was Mars... :)


3 posted on 07/30/2012 12:47:25 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Too many thinking Freepers have left the building...)
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Too bad the flags have outlasted the land of liberty.

/johnny

4 posted on 07/30/2012 12:47:45 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kartographer; KevinDavis

cool


5 posted on 07/30/2012 12:48:54 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Kartographer

I’m surprised that the Moon People haven’t torn them down in a fit of nationalist fervor.


6 posted on 07/30/2012 12:49:10 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Don't vote for anyone who takes contributions from Goldman Sachs)
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"Astronaut Buzz Aldrin reported that the flag was blown over by the exhaust from the ascent engine during liftoff of Apollo 11, and it looks like he was correct!"

Now we'll have to burn the flag, because it touched the ground.

7 posted on 07/30/2012 12:49:53 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: Kartographer

You’d think they’d have torn down the sound stage by now...


8 posted on 07/30/2012 12:51:02 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Dr. Thorne

Or just because they were offended by them.


9 posted on 07/30/2012 12:52:51 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Kartographer
You didn't plant that flag. Someone else made that happen


10 posted on 07/30/2012 12:53:41 PM PDT by mnehring
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Now we'll have to burn the flag, because it touched the ground.

The five second rule is adjusted for atmospheric pressure, so we have another twenty million years to pick it up, brush it off and pretend that nothing happened.

11 posted on 07/30/2012 12:58:15 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Recycled Olympic tagline Shut up, Bob Costas. Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!)
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To: Dr. Thorne

What about the Moon Maidens & their giant spider held up by the visible nylon strings?


12 posted on 07/30/2012 1:02:13 PM PDT by henkster (We're the slaves of the phony leaders...)
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“Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.” BTW where’s Alice?


13 posted on 07/30/2012 1:05:01 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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I’m surprised that the Moon People haven’t torn them down in a fit of nationalist fervor.

Yeah, those guys were tough customers...


14 posted on 07/30/2012 1:09:58 PM PDT by Noumenon (I will not pay the Obama jizya.)
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To: Kartographer
Polls reveal that as much as 20% of Americans believe NASA's lunar program was a hoax and that man never went to the moon.

I'm waiting to see what Charlie Sheen says before I take a stand. /s

15 posted on 07/30/2012 1:13:01 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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Apollo Moon Landing Flags Still Standing, Photos Reveal

Also, craters are still there.

16 posted on 07/30/2012 1:14:04 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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To: Kartographer

Photos reveal jack.


17 posted on 07/30/2012 1:17:28 PM PDT by KingLudd
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To: KarlInOhio

Any way this is different, it didn’t touch the EARTH
or the ground, it touched the regolith.

And there on the moon our proud flag still stood.


18 posted on 07/30/2012 1:18:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Look Quark, another of those odd banners only this one
is Red White and Blue, not the usual Red with stars like
all the others? Other earthlings made it this far too.
Why did they quit? Look! Here’s a message...

Dear Friends, why waste your money on usless moon shots
send your $3 to the Obama Campaign...


19 posted on 07/30/2012 1:24:44 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Kartographer
Well sorta!


20 posted on 07/30/2012 1:33:05 PM PDT by Young Werther (Julius Caesar said "Quae cum ita sunt. Since these things are so.".)
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