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    What happened to the flags Apollo astronauts left on the moon?

    Organic matter will be reduced to a graphitic dust, at most, over 55 years of direct solar UV. Any oxygen from the surroundings that strays into the carbon might, with the help of UV, see the carbon off-gas as CO. If the flags were woven of mineral-colored glass or ceramic, different story.
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    Black hole singularities defy physics. New research could finally do away with them.

    I guess it's just going along the lines of 'classic' relativistic math as Penrose took to a logical conclusion, without consideration of the quantum side, at least. Seems it has to be impossible that the mathematical abstraction of a dimensionless thing can have attributes, so a singularity...