Moon flags still standing

[Somamech]

Hey John I thought you may get a good Laugh out of this article I saw on ABC in Oz today

Moon flags still standing

Images taken by a NASA spacecraft show most of the United States flags planted on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts are still standing.

The photos from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show the flags - erected in 1969 when the first humans, Americans Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong, set foot on the Moon - are still casting shadows.

The details are contained in an online article by principal investigator Mark Robinson, who analysed data from the camera.

But Mr Robinson says one of the flags is missing.

"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!", he said.

Apollo missions ran from 1969 to 1972, shuttling American astronauts to the surface of the Moon.
Buzz Aldrin with the US flag on the moon in 1969 Photo: Buzz Aldrin (pictured) and Neil Armstrong planted the first US flags on the moon in 1969. (Supplied: NASA)

Six flags were planted during this time.

The orbiter was launched in 2009 to analyse new landing sites on the Moon and send back visual information about the lunar environment via narrow and wide-angle cameras.

"Personally, I was a bit surprised that the flags survived the harsh ultraviolet light and temperatures of the lunar surface, but they did," Mr Robinson said.

"What they look like is another question."

SOURCE:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-07-31/moon-flags-still-standing/4166604


The Caption under the photo has to be a comic (or cosmic) Gem.. well I bloody well hope it is

Photo: NASA says the flags are still casting shadows. (Supplied)

[Somamech]

I think the English and their awesome Black Humour summed it up in this TV charachter called Oscar Lomax.

Psychoville - Oscar Lomax - Ingenious Security

[Pimander]

That is proof of a flag standing?  And pseudoskeptics call us crazy.  {shakes head so much he has to make a claim for whiplash treatment}

LMFAO

Here's NASA, taking the p1ss> 



P.S.  Thanks for the compliment about our sense of humour.  I think you guys do great with Family Guy and American Dad, not to mention South Park.  (ETA: Except you aren't American. Sorry mate, I'm having one of those days lol)

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

At least the shadows are in the right direction this time

I find it amazing that they can spot this small flag on film, but they 'miss' structures a mile wide & 4 miles high.........

[Somamech]

I apologise for not warning that liquids of any description will cause harm to electrical good's

Its so freaking silly words do not convey the sillyness Nasa are portraying...   

[Somamech]

LOL

Pim that Pee-Pee clip is funny as you know what   

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

NASA= Not Another Strange Anomaly
or
Nazi Aryan Scientist Association
But the best one is still
Never A Straight Answer
LOL

[Somamech]

PWM LOL  I like Johns one also "There is only one Gas Giant in this Solar System and that is Nasa"  LOL

And Zorgons,  "We Need a New Space Aganecy" LMAO

A lot of people think that American Supercross Happen in American Citys.. So far from the truth as I found a picture from Nasa which dictates elsewise LOL

Its Really Chad Reed on The Moon

[Somamech]

Proof of Chad Reed on the Moon



Clearly you can see in this video that Chad Reed (The American Supercross Star) was jumping dirt Bikes on The Moon. 

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

...so he must have run over one of the flags....
Now i get it

[Somamech]

...so he must have run over one of the flags....
Now i get it

LOL

Wiped out 

[zorgon]

NASA= No Access to Space for Americans
~ Robert Bigelow

On Ats I posted some pictures of Alien Spacecraft on Mars   

The skeptics screamed at me "Its only rocks, you Moron"











Well they look like Alien Spaceships to me

I bet those skeptics are all clamoring over this flag picture though

I like this one though

And ArMaP... you don't get to play

[zorgon]

I always found it amusing the the "I see only rocks" people have the nerve to speak. In my book it gives them NO credibility to even look at an anomaly photo and make a guess, when an object has been identified by NASA and they still say its blurry rocks.

Like this one... you should see how many 'image artifact' posts there were and others saying its just a blur, or there is no way to tell what it is...

So what do you think it is?

[Pimander]

Is it Viking?

...no it looks more like Phoenix...

[zorgon]

Is it Viking?
...no it looks more like Phoenix...

Oh come on now  have some more NASA "water"

It's OBVIOUSLY a Martian Faerie