The American flags on the moon are disintigrating.

[the game]

Does a piss-poor job of it, poor dinosaurs...

the dinosaurs died from global warming. not the meteors.

[zenkai]

Does a piss-poor job of it, poor dinosaurs...

RiP littlefoot

[Fat Mac]

You forgot all the meteors and micrometeorites that gave the moon its appearance. The moon is constantly being hit.

thats 4 billion + years of damage. the chance of one of them flags being hit is probably slim to none

[Darsithis]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8fe58ROYG0

Fun video about the moon and meteorites.

Fascinating video

thats 4 billion + years of damage. the chance of one of them flags being hit is probably slim to none

From a direct hit? Probably. A comet's tail? Think of the millions of particles covering whole sections of the moon or perhaps just solar wind pushing lots of little micrometeorites into the surface.

[Puupi]

the dinosaurs died from global warming. not the meteors.

The dinosaurs died from global cooling caused by a huge meteorite impact.

[Kujako]

If you want to make sure something is yours, you need to pee on it.

[Noradin]

We need to leave a gun up there. .45ACP for people with manly wrists.

Manly wrists?
That loks liek a girl.

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The moon shields the Earth to a degree, but the moon has all those craters for a reason. It also has no atmosphere to slow things down or burn them up with friction. Still won't hit as hard, but it gets smashed hard enough to see flashes of light with telescopes. That is some serious energy being released.

Yes, the moon shields the Earth to a degree, but not the way most people think.
It keeps the rotation of the Earth more stabilized which in turn keeps the magnetic field that protects us from outside radiation in place.

[Allybeboba]

the dinosaurs died from global warming. not the meteors.

Ahem...
"Climate change"

[Serpha]

But Earth is flat, space and satellites are fake, we live under Dome.
Peace bitches.

[Tijuana]

Frankly, I am quite surprised they exist at all after all of these years.

From Yahoo: ( snippet )

The photos have stood the test of time: A spacesuit-clad Apollo astronaut stands proudly next to a red-white-and-blue American flag, his national trophy telling the lonely world "the United States was here."

Unfortunately, all six flags they planted from 1969 through 1972 haven't fared so well.

Images taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2012 do show that at least five out six flags still stand. However, scientists think decades' worth of brilliant sunlight have bleached out their emblematic colors.

The result? The flags are probably completely bone-white by now, as we first learned from Gizmodo. But their condition may be even worse than that.

Each one of the flags was made by the company Annin Flagmakers, woven out of rayon, and cost NASA $5.50 (more than $32.00 when adjusted for inflation). On the surface of Earth, such flags fade in sunlight. That's because ultraviolet light — the same wavelength that causes sunburn — isn't fully absorbed by our planet's atmosphere, and it excels at breaking down fibers and colors.

There isn't a lot of sunlight in movie set storage units. I'm sure they are fine still. =p

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We need to leave a gun up there. .45ACP for people with manly wrists.

Whoever took this picture has problems. They are clearly focusing the camera in the wrong place.

[Heladys]

So now they're french flags?

I see what you did there.

[Trassk]

Nothing lasts forever, not even nationalism