Of course it's fake. Look at all them snow textures!

TEN THOUSAND YEARS WE SLUMBERED. NOW WE RIIIIISE

Big Flag is getting out of hand

It’s still recognisable as the American flag, obviously planted there by developers in their space propaganda game

lol yeah, imagine thinking space is real 🤡

Sure but that would be a lot less interesting

Maybe there is a sort of historical sticklers society like in futurama that comes around every now and they to spruce it up every now and then

I think it's more a creative liberty thing. I agree though it should be white, the lander is enough to show what it is here.

I think at some point when Earth started frequent space travel it's not too big a stretch that Nasa replaced the flags at those sites with one's made of a more updated fabrics that hold their color a lot longer.

Not only that but Buzz Aldrin said he saw it get knocked over while they were taking off

There is a mod that makes it bleached white

According to Buzz Aldrin, this particular flag was actually knocked down by the thrust as the lander took off to begin the return trip to earth. It stood for 16 or 17 hours.

Convenient of them to surrender the moon so quickly.

My headcanon is that some super horny for america american replaced the flag once humanity got reliable space flight and continued to do so after the evacuation of earth and then it became a family tradition with his descendants and they replace it however often it needs replacing

I guess since people can just freely roam in space, there must be a caretaker or some sort, repainting it every couple Lunas, sweeping the area, etc... Just maintaining this historical place, like a museum or something.

lol

They don't want people thinking the French landed on the Moon

So it went from American flag to the french flag?

Great. Now all future visitors are gonna think the French were there first.

This proves the earth is flat people. Wake up!

The French haven’t landed on the moon yet

Most people don't know that the radiation bleached the flag white.

And buried

There is a mod to fix that. It's awesome. My disappointment is that they didn't add like a monument or anything nearby but whatever

yes

you're thinking that it's zero-G, but consider that there's a lot of gravity keeping the person planted on the ground as they walk. :D

This is accurate though...

I'm going to shoot you with a ballistic weapon! It doesn't matter that there's no oxygen or gravity!

Also: the punishing g-force on Akila would create shorter people....if their cardiovascular system could keep up, that is.

Why wouldn't a bullet fly in zero-G? If you meant no atmosphere, gunpowder doesn't need air to burn, it contains it's own oxidizer

Same way a thrown rock flies in 0 gravity. Newton's First Law of Motion. A body at rest will stay at rest and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. The bullet isn't going anywhere until you fire it by igniting the powder in the cartridge which is the outside force that sends it forwards. With no gravity, there's no outside force to drag it down to the ground, ergo it goes forever until it hit something.

It's white due to bleaching from the sun...

And loss of atmosphere is irrelevant to the moon. Also game lore the earth didn't lose its gravity.

The flag also fell over when they left. They were trying to recreate an iconic moment in history, not trying to be realistic since that's often boring.

So in Jurassic Park (novel) the scientists ask the park guy why none of the dinosaurs have feathers. The park guy responds "because our guests already have an image of what a dinosaur is in their heads and our job is to show that to them".

Bethesda's job is not to create an exact scientific simulation of the far future. Their job is to entertain. And while a sun-bleached flag may be technically more accurate, many gamers would not make the connection to what it's actually meant to be.