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Images Show Apollo Moon Flags Still Standing
TheNextCorner writes "Images taken by a NASA spacecraft show that the American flags planted in the Moon's soil by Apollo astronauts are mostly still standing. Each of the Apollo missions planted an American flag in the soil at their landing sites. Scientists had previously examined photos of the Apollo landing sites for the flags, and had seen what looked like shadows cast by them on the lunar surface. Now, researchers have studied photos of the landing sites taken at different points during the day (and under different illuminations) and have observed shadows circling the points where the flags are thought to be."
You'd think that the flags would've been knocked over by all that lunar wind by now.
The conspiracy theory nuts keep telling us that the moon landings were fake!
Om, nomnomnom...
Photoshop is an incredible program.
What a relief!
Imagine having to go all the way back there and fix it.
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Dear Mr. Sibrel,
Hope that jaw doesn't ache too much from the jacking that Mr. Aldrin gave it.
Oh yeah, here's more proof from one of our lunar orbiters that there are, indeed, flags on the moon where the landings occurred and that all but one are still standing.
Hoax theory disproved bitch!
NASA
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Top ranking NASA officials also used the phrase "mostly still standing" to describe the state of the U.S. space program.
Technically, there's nothing that shows they are the SAME flags, just SOME flags.
I don't know what the big deal is...
You can see all the flags clearly by going to "Google Moon" and then go to street view.
Of course, they've blurred the license plates on all the LRVs.
The real conspiracy is that the US flag says, "Made In China".
Table-ized A.I.
Palin can see it from her house
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