The moon landing footage debate, I was wrong about the flag ripple thing

After seeing a slow motion video of a metal rod vibrating in a vacuum on a physics forum last month, I realized the flag movement in the Apollo footage matches that exactly, so can anyone explain why the 'no wind' argument is still so popular?

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tessa_carr1mo ago

Have you ever noticed how people bring up the flag ripple but never talk about the footprints? Like, the dust around the footprints should've been kicked up in a big cloud if there was any air, but it just stayed put. That's the same physics as the flag rod slowing down in a vacuum, the whole thing is about a lack of drag. I think the "no wind" argument sticks because it's easy to picture a flag on Earth and it's a short soundbite, but the real proof is in how the dirt behaves. Once you see that, the whole debate just kinda fizzles out.

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emmaking1mo ago

Next you'll tell me the moon rocks are just cleverly painted cheese.

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