Hit 100 hours of research on the moon landing and now I'm not so sure

I always laughed at the idea it was faked, but after watching the original footage frame by frame, the flag movement in a vacuum got me. How do you explain that without wind?

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the_claire1mo ago

Where did you hear there's a perfect vacuum on the moon? There's a tiny bit of atmosphere, but that's not even the main point. The flag moved because the astronauts were twisting the pole into the ground. That shaking gets the fabric going, and without air resistance to slow it down, it just keeps wobbling for a bit. It's not wind, it's simple physics from them setting it up.

jenny_lane121mo ago

Honestly used to be one of those people who thought the flag thing was weird... but seeing that slow-mo clip of the pole twisting changed everything. The fabric just keeps jiggling after they let go because there's basically no air to slow it down. Makes total sense now.

phoenixk641mo ago

Remember my buddy who used to argue about the flag moving? He finally watched a slow-mo clip of them twisting the pole and the flag just kept jiggling after they let go. It clicked for him right then, no air to stop the wobble once they got it shaking.

stella_scott9619d ago

just kept jiggling after they let go" is the part I keep coming back to because it doesn't add up for me. If the pole's twisting caused all that movement, you'd think the flag would settle pretty quick once the astronaut stops touching it, even in low gravity. I've seen those clips and I'm not convinced it's from the setup alone, there's a lot of fabric motion that looks more like wind than a fading wobble. @jenny_lane12, I get that the slow-mo convinced you, but have you watched the longer uncut footage where the flag keeps rippling for minutes after they walk away? That's a sustained motion that a single twist shouldn't cause. I'm not saying it's aliens or anything, but the official explanation feels like a stretch when you really look at how long that fabric keeps moving.