[angstrom]

If nothing else, the following plaque sums the humbling nature of someone who accurately captured the gravitas of the moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A11.plaque.jpg

Today, some of the flags planted on the moon still stand upright. However, 40 years of intense UV radiation have bleached them all white. The plaque remains.

[estebank]

Somehow I feel that bleached out featureless flags on the Moon matches the message in that plaque perfectly.