The flags planted on the Moon no longer show the Stars and Stripes.
Exposure to radiation after 5 decades will have bleached the colours from the flags so they would be all white now.
That is if they are even still intact. They may have disintegrated completely
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They should be OK, safe in the film studio.
Only joking 
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Well they should jolly well send someone back to replace them then! 
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Iām glad if theyāre faded and thought it was a flaming cheek to stick the US flag in it like theyād won it or owned it 
Space is full of rubbish weāve dumped there, not content with filling up our own planet with trash, they should have left the moon how they found it, not dump tatty flags on it
https://www.fastcompany.com/90982629/outer-space-is-full-of-human-trash-now-we-have-to-get-rid-of-it
And who owns the moon and is entitled to use its resources?
Thatās a legal and moral issue but I would have thought every human being has a stake and itās very sad to see us taking petty nationalistic issues and divisions there staking claims and marking it with national flags
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Humanity in a nutshell.
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To be fair they did pay for the trip.
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Just add the flag to the ever growing mound of space junk .
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When I see all that space junk circling the earth it really upsets me.
Seems the powers that be do not care how quickly they destroy our environment. As long as a profit is derived, āSheāll be right mateā 
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With all due respect Bretrickā¦If you divide the amount of space junk by the area in which it circulates earth you could travel around space for the rest of your life and never ever see one piece of junkā¦So big is the area in question. Andā¦What goes up, eventually comes down.
To the victors go the spoils Mareeā¦But if you want to be pedantic, who actually owns anything? Including this planet. We are only the curatorsā¦
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āTo the victorsā
Thatās the nub of the problem, really, isnāt it?
Such arrogance to think theyāve āwonā the the moon and stick a tacky flag on it
Human beings are still just naff really arenāt they? Nothing spiritual, just grabby grabby
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I have to say that I agree with you on that one Mareeā¦ 
Perhaps Putin should get his finger out and stop messing about in Ukraine and go and put the Russian flag up on the moon and stake his claim. It would appear that they are the only two countries capable.
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Itās complex, in a sense of the word I believe that there is something spiritual about striking out, exploring and discovering something new, itās part of who we are.
The Apollo missions were fundamentally a space race, beating the Russians to the moon was paramount, realistically it wasnāt surprising that The Stars and Stripes were left on the Moon. Ironically the Apollo 11 flag was reportedly blown over by the ascent stage of the lunar module on take off.
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Whatās that little white stick thing on the left Chilli?
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I have no idea Foxy? My initial thought being that it was a camera but thatās merely a wild guess on my part. Go on, I get the feeling this is leading somewhereā¦
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Never seen that flag, is it on the Dark Side of the Moon?
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Yup, thatās it in a nutshell
āRaceāā¦ā¦āBeating the Russiansā
There should be something spiritual and wonderful about exploring and expanding our horizons
And instead human beings reduce it to completion, winning and land grabbing, like the colonialists explorers of old and make it all about where they can stick their stupid flag
Iām glad if that flag was blown over, karma from the Universe!
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Yeah, ācos flag waving, territory grabbing and nationalism has worked out really well down here, hasnāt it?
Wherever human beings go, they take their shit and conflicts
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Kings Blues said it first
āMother Earth is begginā you to quit
So youāve reached the moon and stick a flag in itā
Warning, contains the F word, donāt play if it will offend
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