Next came the flag. "There's no air on the moon," Jamie noted. "So why does it look like it's flapping in the wind?"
They placed a replica flag inside a . On Earth, air resistance makes a flag stop moving quickly. But in a vacuum, without air to provide friction, the flag continued to oscillate for a long time after being touched. The "waving" wasn't wind; it was physics in a vacuum. Act III: The Lunar Footprint [S6E10] NASA Moon Landing Hoax
As the episode wrapped, the team looked at the data. They had recreated the "faked" photos, proved the flag’s movement, and literally touched a piece of human history with a laser beam. Next came the flag
"Look at that!" he shouted, pointing at the skewed shadows. "If the Sun is the only light source, shouldn't they be parallel?" On Earth, air resistance makes a flag stop moving quickly
The finale took them to the . They weren't just looking through a telescope; they were firing a high-powered laser at the moon.