Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 11, 2013

And you can still see the “Kilroy Was Here” graffiti after all these years.

I would think the only flag still standing would be the Apollo 17 flag. Since the liftoff of the LEM was going to be videoed, they deliberately planted the flag far enough away that it would not be knocked down on camera at liftoff..A close examination of the 2009 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images from 50 km (31 miles) altitude should settle the issue.

Apparently the one not “flying” was the Apollo 11 one. It was too close to the LEM and when Armstrong and Aldrin took off, it was knocked it over (according to Aldrin).

It’s not Bill “Spaceman” Lee, when he was my favorite pitcher in the 70’s for the BoSox, He was affectionately known as Spaceman Bill Lee, Spaceman first because he was so spacy.

How do they know that? From the Mars lander?

I thought teams won ball games… not individuals

The missing flag is in the basement of the Man on the Moon. His teenage son collects road signs too.

If you watch the documentary of the first moon landing, you can see that the flag is stiff – cardboard, maybe? I guess they figured it would look better if it appeared to be “flying”. Or else they wanted to fuel future arguments for conspiracies.

I thought the flag not only had the vertical pole as standard but also a horizontal segment at the top that the flag is also attached to.

I guess none of the conspiracy theorists ever watch MythBusters lest their conspiracies get shot down…like this one…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhab86KoVjU The only aspect of the MB test I would have changed is reducing the gravity in vacuum to TRULY simulate the surface of the moon. That flag kept waving a lot more in the vacuum but imagine how much more if would have waved had there been almost no gravity pulling on it.

There’s a rod at the top of the staff that the top of the flag is attached to.

Stanford scientists better not let Joe Biden get to their device… otherwise they’ll have the most dangerous and destructive weapon known to man.

Some people’s brainwaves need to be translated!

Indeed, how?

this is interesting especially about Bill “Spaceman” Lee I like baseball geez he still pitching at 65??? wow!!!!!!!

Yes, indeed, the flags left at the landing sites on the moon were held in a horizontal display mode by a rod supporting the upper edge. Whether that actually qualifies as “flying” or not, is a matter of semantics. We don’t usually refer to a flag displayed that way against a wall as “flying” but you theoretically could call it a flying position.