Question about the physics of fluttering flags

Cosmored

At the 33 second mark of this video of the Chinese space walk the astronaut moves a flag quickly from right to left.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fWw0ilbuZuk

The flag flutters as it moves. The purpose of the YouTube video was to prove the Chinese space walks were faked in a water tank.

I want to know whether the flag is behaving the way it would in water, or in a vacuum. My tendency is to think the flag is behaving the way it would in water. Can anybody clear this up?

mgb_phys

The flag isn't fluttering it is moving how a semi rigid body (eg thick plastic) wouldmove if you shake it.
In fact it proves it isn't in a fluid - when he moves it backward it is still curved in the same direction - so it can't be moving through anything with resistance.

Anyway, they wouldn't fake it in a water tank -they would use the same anti-gravity system from the Roswell spaceship that NASA uses to fake all it's space walks.

Cosmored

What about the alleged bubble that is discussed in this video?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL98p0wZ7g

mgb_phys

It's a bit of tape from the suit. It's not spherical and it appears to accelarate as it moves which means it is going toward the camera rather than straight up.

I assume you are looking for arguments to rebute the conspiracy claims?
If you were going to fake it you could do it all in CGI rather than a water tank.
A number of neighbouring countries watch this airspace for ballistic launch tracks - do you think there was no launch but USA, Japan, Russia, India, N. Korea are all part of some conspiracy to suppress that?

Cosmored

Actually, I think it was faked in water. I'm having a debate with someone on another forum and I'm looking for information.

I started talking about the Chinese space walk on page 22 of this thread in post #527.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChange...topic/51606/1/

Would you like to join in?


It doesn't look to me like he's shaking it. It looks to me like he's simply pulling it.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fWw0ilbuZuk


Couldn't that be faked by filming very slow movements and then playing it back at more than double speed?

russ_watters

Water is far too dense and viscous for the flag to flap around like that. I see no reason to believe it is a fake.

Cosmored

It doesn't follow a straight trajectory the way a bit of tape would. It wants to go straight up and moves along the visor of the helmet until it is able to go straight up at the exact point a bubble would. The behavior is totally consistent with that of a bubble and inconsistent with that of a small object. Also, if it is a small piece of tape, what is the force that makes it start moving in zero-gravity? I can't identify any force making it move except what would make a bubble move in water.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL98p0wZ7g

russ_watters

They are coming out of the airlock, are they not? A little bit of residual air in the airlock, leaking out of hoses, trapped in the folds of the spacesuit, etc., would explain that.

What you have here is nowhere near enough to prove your claim.

yenchin

First we have pseudoscientific claim of NASA faking moon landing - of which the movement of the flag was one of the "reasons" provided - now the Chinese is faking as well?

Cosmored

How do you explain the trajectory? Wouldn't it have gone straight instead of sliding along the visor and then going straight up the way a bubble would have done?

Also, the fluttering of the flag at the 33 second mark of this clip is consistent with its being in water.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fWw0ilbuZuk

If you look at the astronaut's arm as he moves the flag quickly from right to left he is not shaking it as was said in post #2.

The evidence shows that both the Apollo moon landings and the Chinese space walks were faked.

There's a partial summary of evidence that the Apollo missions were faked in post #1 of this thread on the "Loose Change" forum.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/LooseChange...topic/51606/1/

Why don't you come join in the debate there?

Ivan Seeking

We don't discuss conspiracy theories.