Is the American flag still on the moon?

Factual Questions
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I bet I could hit about 50%… :smiley:

42

Really?

43

:smack:

That’ll teach me to skim while I’m doing other things… or not.

44

Hey, there are 52,800 ft in a mile, right?
:smack:

Tris

45

So thats what happend to them. I thought the metal munching moon mice got to them!

46

Oh, and it turns out you only have to try to look at that quarter from Richmond, not Miami.

Tris

47

<LOL> The odds just improved! 51% now… :smiley:

48

holds up a quarter

49

Tails!

50

Look out! It’s coming right for us!! :eek:

51

Not only that, it’s like a second moon in the sky!!!

52

Not if it was a very large flag.

53

Really? Wow. Really!??!

So, if Andromeda were just brighter, that’s how big it would appear in our sky? I had no idea. That is quite possibly the coolest thing ever.

I always assumed that every galaxy would appear only as big as a star.

Is there anything else I don’t know? Any other “much bigger than you thought when viewed from earth” objects out there?

54

Here’s the article I’d been thinking about, with respect to lunar orbits.

55

Thanks for going to the trouble of looking that up.

56

Yes - the Great Wall oif China is so big it can be seen from anywhere on Earth.

57

You can see it with your naked eye, though it appears as a smudge of light.

58

Another way to picture the “seeing the flag” problem is like this; look at the pictures of the Earth taken from the Moon or from Lunar orbit; here’s a good picture.

Now, imagine what kind of telescope you’d need in order to be able to make out a house at that distance, let alone a flag.

59

I keep telling my daughter; she still can’t parallel park. :wink:

60

I couldn’t find the cartoon on the web, but Sidney Harris had a little ditty:
Space is big.
Space is dark.
It’s hard to find
a place to park.

Burma Shave.

I’ll scan it if I can find it.