When I first ran across this CBS News Story, I will admit I was confused.
Hat Tip LGF
It is true that only an expert might notice that this photo is not the Moon which orbits the Earth but one of the moon's of Saturn (Dione), that's not a big deal but one does wonder why they didn't use a stock photo of the right moon.
The fact that the shadow is in the wrong position is sloppy, but not a big deal either.
But the Flag itself?
Now that is incomprehensible.
An article whose title is China Plans To Land On Moon By 2024 and they used a JAPANESE Flag?
CBS used to be a professional newscaster. How Times have changed.
And that bothered me. Had Times changed so much that one of the Premier News Agencies in the World could no longer be trusted?
Or was there something I was overlooking??
I pondered their vast and Professional Editorial Staff, their extensive Research Capabilities, their Legion of experienced Journalists and realized NO this could not be a mistake, it could not be the result of Institutional Incompetence it must be instead one more example of the
Dan Rather Paradox of Validity.
Where all the Facts are False but the Underlying Truth is Correct.
So WHAT Underlying Truth could result in China being on the Moon by 2024 flying the flag of the Republic of Japan, rather than the People's Republic of China.
It was then I realized only ONE set of future events could result in the simultaneity of both facts.
If Japan CONQUERS and absorbs China before 2024!
Then the whole article makes sense. There are a lot more Chinese than Japanese the New Government might want to use Chinese Astronauts to start with until they get all the kinks worked out.
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