| akuma587 said: I don't think it was a hoax, but can someone explain to me why the flag was waving on the moon? I still have yet to hear anyone give a good explanation for that... |
Why wouldn't it wave?
I mean it's basically a piece of cloth tied to a pole at near zero gravity.
It would be near impossible to get it to stay still at first
I mean try an expierment. Hold a piece of paper in your left hand thats somewhat folded. Now unfold it.
Notice in goes to the left.... then goes back to the right until it finally rests at the middle.
Now picture this in space. Where there is little atomosphere... little gravity... and much less resistance.
In otherwords. The flags waving and moving takes up less energy and force... so it takes much longer for it to settle down from the simple act of unfurling the flag and getting the flagpole in the ground.
So it has to go back and forth a few times before it finds a "resting" place.
Just how if you pushed off a wall you would continue for much farther then if you pushed off a wall here.
