no, but seriously, how did the flag get on the moon?

Your subject header made me laugh.
Good job.

Peace,
Shannon

"It is better to destroy than to create what is unessential." -- Daumier, 8 1/2

You know I was thinking the same thing when I posted the comment for the movie LOL. Glad someone else though the same thing.















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And how did anyone, in 1961, know it was there?

Death is...whimsical today.

Using the term loosely, that was the opening plot of the movie. Jaworksi was a Russian scientist who defected to the US bringing top secret documents about the Russians landing on the moon. I can't recall the narrator's exact words, but something like "Pictures of the moon, pictures that had never been seen outside the walls of the Kremlin."

Now doesn't that make sense. How prescient and gifted a director Coleman Francis truly was.





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Is that a rumor or did you just make that up? -Mom

The folks from MTV put it there.

"Holy Bananas, it's a girl's leg!"

In scenes left on the cutting room floor, Tor Johnson was strapped to a rocket and shot to the moon by the Russians. (Kubrick stole the idea for the end of Dr. Strangelove a couple of years later.) Johnson planted the flag, but he got a cosmic ray bath in the process which deranged his mind, causing him to defect to America. He landed his rocket somewhere near Yucca Flats and contacted the authorities, knowing Russian agents would try and track him down. That's plausible, within the universe of this movie.

What I really want to know is: how the hell did they get that helicopter off the ground after they stuffed Tor into it?

Well...uh,....you push a button, and well, things....HAPPEN! I mean, uh....people get caught in the wheels of progress, (or was it justice?) and you don't go playin' with no coyote's; you feed soda pop to thirsty pigs...and uh,...well....flag on the moon!

Actually, it took me a bit to dope it out, but yes, the scientist had info on the russians putting a flag on the moon, (although they COULD be referring to the butt-lookin' mountain hill those deputy-guys were standing on) HOWEVER:

Main problem with the idea? Well, if the russkies HAD put a flag there, they would have used it as the greatest propaganda tool ever, and there would have been no logical reason to keep it a secret; quite the opposite.
Also: we on this board have put 100 times more thought into the script than ol' Coleman did when he made it...but that's why we are still talking about it...oh, and before I forget-

Flag on the moon, baby....flag on the moon!