Yo Guys...

[Nic]

hmm i dont see this going on longer... good original topic... i think the moon would kinda always remain nuetral territory

 

[bigspizz]

People will start legally owning lunar (and martian) property when they can figure out some kind of natural bordering system. The borders can not be man made. This is how our world was "sold"....

 

[beex215]

i own the moon. im kind enough i let every see it.

 

[ermgravy]

The lack of gravity causes their to be no friction...In short, any kinetic energy you give a wobbly metal object in space, will always be there...If they bumped the flag, it would always wobble, until they put their hands on it to settle it,(as seen in the footage) Wanna know why no stars are visible in any of the footage??? lol

If in space thats great but moon has mass and gravity! just not a great deal, it would drop within a min or so still....

 

[---XR---]

Another low point in the history of the lounge...

if you feel that way then don't post

 

[ermgravy]

some people need at least a double drop....

 

[dingoofus]

Youse can have the moon, seems like a useless rock in the sky to me, lol.

 

[rmorse]

Om, once again, watch that vid I posted one page back.

 

[ermgravy]

ignorance is bliss... plus i watched it, but spizz said no gravity thats more my point, if we are getting pedantic at least lets go full flow... its a big heavy object it has gravity....

 

[Onion01]

The lack of gravity causes their to be no friction...In short, any kinetic energy you give a wobbly metal object in space, will always be there...If they bumped the flag, it would always wobble

hmmm, not quite true spizz. While energy wouldn't be dissipated because of air resistance, their is still resistance at the contact points on the flag itself. Friction is an intrinsic property of the material an object is made of, and the force it exibits is independent of gravity. There would be energy dissipated via heat, albeit miniscule, from the torsion in the flag's movement. It would eventually come to a stop on it's own after a very long time.

To think of it in another way, consider newton's famous first law. The a swinging flag is acted on by the force of moon's gravity (downward), and a pull opposite in the direction it's swinging due to the flag being firmly planted in the ground and only able to turn a certain distance before having to turn back. If the flag were freely flating in space, however, any movement would keep on going in the direction of that movement until acted on by an outside force.