Did you watch the TV broadcast today? If not, I'm giving you a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYcU0X6mvtM

This proves that a flag CAN wave in vacuum and completely refutes one of the silly moon hoax arguments.

Yep, it waves nicely. And those guys look good out there.

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Does anyone here know if we can see this spacecraft flying overhead, just after sunset or just before dawn?

Unless the Chinese are faking it, as well.

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I'm told, yes. We were supposed to watch for it at a star party tonight, but the weather has other ideas. (the Chinese and their weather machines trying to keep us from learning the truth ).

Go to http://www.heavens-above.com/
for satellite info for your location. Be sure to put the hyphen in the name, or you get a spam site.

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... which is imposssible.

Looks to me like they used a thicker flag than the US used. Looks like thicker cloth. This tends to keep it fully extended without it bunching up.

Yeah, the material seems to be more sturdy, like thick paper. And the flag they waved was a lot smaller than the US flag as well, of course.

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Naw. All you'd need is a vomit comet and decent CGI kit.

Maybe, the flag is the fake ?

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Ahh, now we're getting somewhere. The plot thickens.

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Go here and click on 300K and see if you get a video program from China:

http://wwitv.com/portal.htm?http://w...nnels/2078.htm

If you go to that link and wait about a minute, you should get a video in the small box. If you click on 300K you should get a big video in a Windows media player window. It's a show about the astronauts and the rocket.

Go here to see a rebroadcast of the space walk:

http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/2077.htm

As he opens the hatch near the beginning of this short video, you can see a piece of paper blow out from decompression in the outside view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oS4CfC6mJc

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Those were the instructions about how to get back home safely.

No stars either....

Who needs stars? The community of spacewalkers is enriched by one.

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did they accidentally release the transcript of the communications between the earth and the ship before the actual space walk this time?

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I know this is the CT forum, and there's considerable motivation to consider the thing in terms of Apollo Hoax claims, but I for one am quite pleased to congratulate the Taikonauts on their incredible achievement.

<Hoax Believer>
But there are stars in space so if there are no stars in the pictures it must be a HOAX!!!!!!!!111111111111eleventyone!
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Definitely!
And I don´t know why this is on the CT forum

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1 + e^i*pi = 0

I also. Congrats, guys who will never read this!

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The conspiracy developing is that this was filmed underwater. The bits of debris seen "rising" are actually air bubbles.

Predictable comments from the HB crowd, as expected.

The bits of debris seen "rising" are actually air bubbles.

As opposed to UFOs, which is what they are usually claimed to be.

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They could be both. A conspiracy theorist could say they were underwater UFOs. Just say that it stands for Unidentified Floating Objects in this case.

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That's more logical. A couple of these bubbles shot off on 45 angles, only UFOs are capable of extraordinary maneuvers like that.

according to the History Chanel, they are called USO's if they are underwater.. unidentified submerged objects..

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Actually 2 - stand up EVAs count.