DavesUrMan wrote:

- the flag was attached to a lightweight aluminium pole, very flexible. when they put the flag "down" the flag moved. And since there is no "airresistance", the flag moved longer then it would on earth.

sort of :)more precisely, the flag was furled in storage, and the way it looks is due to the furl, and in two pictures taken several minutes apart, the flag is seen to move little, if at all - it moved a little at the start when he was hoisting it - thats all though

- As for the disturbances on the moonsurface. Because the moonlander only used 25% of its power, traveled sideways and didn't stay at one place very long there are no disturbances.

Sort of - but the dispute is where it lands - many people think there should be scorch marks etc, and note that there is lots of dust underneath the craft so (allegedly) it should have all been blown away. Not so - it landed in a vertical descent in its final position, and the pressure exerted by the exhausts and the engines on a planet with negligble gravity would acount for approximately 1/4 of a pound of weight on every square foot - not that big a deal!
Also, since there is no atmosphere, there is nothing to blow the dust very far away. Even if we were to pour flour on a table and step several steps away, and blow, the flour would move. Our breath can only travel about 6 inches, but its the breath that hits the air that moves the air in front of it. When theres no air, that can't happen - same with the exhausts :)

- what also can be a clue, normally (on earth) the movement of the flag would be disturbed when one of the astronauts walked by, but since there is no "movement of air" the movement of the flag remains undisturbed.

My lack of knowing the right English expressions let me to "" a few discriptions

That was cool though - well done:D (I know i'm too patrionising) :P

Sanne (nl) wrote:

That was cool though - well done:D (I know i'm too patrionising) :P

DavesUrMan wrote:

yeah you are, but that's oke, i can handle it;) lol

Sanne (nl) wrote:

For some reason or another, the Dutch radio completely missed the release of "The boy...." No travis on the radio here:( But hey, who needs it, when there are cd's and dvd's. Right now Sam (my daughter) is trying out here voice, she sounds something like a chicking with the flue and a growling bear, lmho:)

DavesUrMan wrote:

Awwww lol how old is your daughter?

Sanne (nl) wrote:

20..


no kidding, just 4;5 months old

la femme qui wrote:

This topic needs a thread of its own!

About the rippled flag, people(read NASA) say that the flag was made that way or wired up to look like it was rippling. Not sure what to believe :s

DavesUrMan wrote:

awwwwww lol
ok i'll stop with that
babies are luverly :)

DavesUrMan wrote:

I really would like to contemplate infinity :)

DavesUrMan wrote:

I really would like to contemplate infinity :)

Sanne (nl) wrote:

I am afraid i don't know anything about infinity, sorry. Hope someone else does.

harry potter wrote:

right the express infinity from bogner regis'll be here any-minute-now - oooh i can't wait to contemplate that one
*scribbles*
*shot of asthma inhaler*

Sanne (nl) wrote:

I am afraid i don't know anything about infinity, sorry. Hope someone else does.

DavesUrMan wrote:

Well its really the problem that infinity obviously means "endless" or "forever" or "never ending".
And the reason that something can't travel past the speed of light is that its mass would be infinite...and according to scientists its impossible to have 'never ending mass'.

but maybe we've got it wrong - maybe infinite is something completely incomprehendable. Afterall, light travels at the speed of light (though it is a mixture of photons and waves) perhaps it DOES have infinte mass and we just don't understand it. Perhaps for me to travel at the speed of light would involve splitting into waves AND atoms...or photons...