Illustration of the Van Allen Space Belts and all of that sweet, sweet radiation. Picture credit: NASA
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!
As long as some people find more consolation in limitations than exploration, scientists will have to play interstellar whack-a-mole with moon truthers. If the stars are in our favor, we'll have Aldrin around to be our muscle just a little longer.Made possible by Operation Avalanche. In theaters September 16th.The conspiracy theory of society cannot be true because it amounts to the assertion that all results, even those which at first sight do not seem to be intended by anybody, are the intended results of the actions of people who are interested in these results.