# How much has the American flag on the Moon deteriorated?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 13, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128 "2008-05-13T03:04:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128/41 "2008-05-13T18:51:29Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Derleth]  
Note that you’re also using Unicode codepoints that (apparently) haven’t been assigned characters.

 is U+F0E0 (the octet sequence 0xEF 0x83 0xA0 in UTF-8), which is “Unknown character in range Private Use Area”. It’s possible my software is old and later versions of the standard reassigned some Private Use Area characters, but reassignments in the BMP would be very odd this late in the game.

I suspect you wanted [U+2248 ALMOST EQUAL TO ( ≈ )](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2248/index.htm) or [U+2245 APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO ( ≅ )](http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2245/index.htm).  
[/QUOTE]  
Actually when I roughed it out in Word I was using –\>. Obviously I didn’t catch them all. 🙂

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128/42 "2008-05-13T19:01:11Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Squink]  
for instance breaking down the polyester fabric.  
[/QUOTE]  
Or **nylon** , even.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128/43 "2008-05-13T19:46:17Z")

</div>

I just saw it the other day when I went by there.

It looks okay.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128/44 "2008-05-18T02:38:15Z")

</div>

Since this hasn’t been closed or shifted to GD yet,

[QUOTE=Siam Sam]  
I’ve heard rumors that this was really a movie set. 😃  
[/QUOTE]

Yes, but it was really Mars.

[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077294/)

starring, sort of, O. J. Simpson. It was on DirecTV 2 nights ago.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2008, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128/45 "2008-05-18T08:05:18Z")

</div>

[QUOTE=Cervaise]  
Yep. After they finished the shoot in Burbank, they folded up the flag and put it back in its package for resale. It could be anywhere.  
[/QUOTE]

I thought they filmed it in Area 51. Sheesh, I wish these conspiracy theorists would get their stories straight…

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-has-the-american-flag-on-the-moon-deteriorated/449128.md?page=2)