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re: Apparently there is an AU flag on the moon?
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:31 am to UPT
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:31 am to UPT
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The idea that NASA would allow ANYTHING aboard an Apollo space craft that wasn't needed for it's operation is laughable.
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on his Gemini 3 mission in 1965, pilot John Young snuck a corned beef sandwich on board for him and commander Grissom to split.
Alan Bean smuggled a camera-shutter self-timer device on to the mission with the intent of taking a photograph with himself,
Schirra attracted notoriety for playing "Jingle Bells" on a four-hole Hohner harmonica he had smuggled on board
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Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:36 am to Fipitan
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Wow. You are either very unintelligent or illiterate.
Maybe both.
What are you talking about?
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:42 am to WDE24
War Doves?
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:47 am to Fipitan
I love the high and mighty intelligence attitude coming from somebody so retarded he doesn't understand how sig pics work.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:50 am to UPT
I am pretty sure every person in the space craft gets a very small box or a certain weight for whatever personal items they would like to take into space.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:53 am to UPT
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Ken Mattingly flew to the moon but never walked on it. Cool myth though. The idea that NASA would allow ANYTHING aboard an Apollo space craft that wasn't needed for it's operation is laughable.
whats laugable? that he brought Auburn flags with him on the mission? considering its fact, not sure whats laugable. they also brought other schools flags as well. also the "myth" is he gave them to the moonwalkers to bury with the other items.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 11:59 am to Master of Sinanju
This is a thread about AUBURN flags on the moon.
You posted an article about officially recognized AMERICAN flags being placed, and subsequently photographed on the moon...
Not legit.
You posted an article about officially recognized AMERICAN flags being placed, and subsequently photographed on the moon...
Not legit.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:05 pm to InVolNerable
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InVolNerable
Fipcessed.
Yeah, you're right. Who wants to be well versed in things which are valuable in the REAL WORLD, like physics n stuff. It's much more important to know my way around tigerdroppings message board signatures and avitars. My priorities are WAY out of whack.
I'll happily stipulate to the fact that you know more than I about worthless shite like message board sig pics and avitars if you'll stipulate to the fact that the entirety of your cerebral acuity can be captured and measured with a used condom.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:20 pm to NYCAuburn
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Auburn lore maintains that one of those colleagues — John W. Young and Charlie Duke — deposited a flag on the lunar surface. A flag-bearing T-shirt commemorating Mattingly’s voyage, once sold in Auburn-area stores, has been marketed thusly. But myth may have blended with fact, and the consensus is that all flags stayed confined to the capsule. Asked if a flag found its way to the moon, Mattingly, 74, said by phone, “I have no way of answering that question.” Neither Young nor Duke could be reached.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:22 pm to UPT
thanks for confirming what I said
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:24 pm to Fipitan
He probably thought it would help with recruiting...aliens and such!!
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:29 pm to PJinAtl
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The bold part up there is a false statement. The rotational period fo the Moon is equal to the orbital period around the Earth, meaning that the same side always faces the Earth. However, the "far side of the Moon" receives approximately the same amount of sunlight as the near side that is visible from Earth. The only time that the far side == the dark side is during a full moon. In the new moon phase, the portion of the Moon that faces Earth is facing away from the Sun (making it dark) and therefore the far side (which we never see) is bathed in sunlight. Typically any spot on the Moon will see 14 days of continuous sunlight and temps well over 100 degrees, followed by 14 days of continuous darkness and temps -150 degrees or so. Either way, the flag would not exist be now if it was left there. Heck, if you had put a flag out in Auburn on the same date it wouldn't be recognizable now either after being exposed to heat, cold, sun, rain, etc. None of the flags (US, AU or otherwise) left by the Apollo missions likely exist anymore because they were typical nylon flags not meant to withstand the rigors of space.
Boom. Science bitch.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:29 pm to NYCAuburn
I was saying that I didn't believe that 10 flags were smuggled on board with out NASA knowing or approving.
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:31 pm to UPT
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I was saying that I didn't believe that 10 flags were smuggled on board with out NASA knowing or approving.
it's fact, not sure what you are trying to prove. like I said they also brought many other schools flags as well
Posted on 7/16/13 at 12:55 pm to UPT
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I was saying that I didn't believe that 10 flags were smuggled on board with out NASA knowing or approving.
Then you should have typed THOSE words.
But still, inaccurate.
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