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While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm
We've been to the moon. There is no oil. We lost interest.
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 1:13 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We've been to the moon. There is no oil. We lost interest.


If Halliburton can secure a zillion dollar contract to till lunar regalith for no purpose, I am sure our interest in sending Halliburton men to the moon on tax payer dime would instantly revive.


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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 1:13 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: We've been to the moon. There is no oil. We lost interest.

there is no money to be gained on the moon.

As soon as profit is conceavable on the moon is when you will see our tax dollars making the 1% filthy rich to go to the moon.
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 2:17 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 1:02 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 12:16 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Break new ground? Much of China's technology to put men in space came from the Russians (their capsule is a Russian design). And their computer technology came from the United States.

That's not the point. Any late comer stupid enough to try to reinvent the wheel is probably too stupid to successfully reinvent anything. Their capsule is not quite a Russian design. It uses the highly effficient Soyuz layout, but is larger in every dimension, and betrays every internal difference that is possible to observe from the outside.

Incidentally, we would have done better to copy the efficient Soyuz layout than repeat the louzy apollo layout. thanks to the separation of orbital working module from the heat shielded crew return module in the Soyuz, the basic Soyuz design offer more working and living space and more instrument capacity at much less weight than Apollo.

I don't disagree with you about the Apollo part II being a bad idea. I've said it from the first day they rolled it out.
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Chinese are going to the moon? All of them?
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Chinese are going to the moon? All of them?

No, they'll leave the political prisoners behind.

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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 12:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 10:36 am)Faith No More Wrote: Canada is looking good from my perspective. Just a three hour drive...
Too damn cold.

Said the man from Arizona. I, however, live in the middle of Michigan so there are even parts of Canada further south than I am. Besides, what's a few degrees of temperature to sacrifice if I don't have to hear about people like Newt Gingrich possibly becoming the leader of my country?
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Chinese are going to the moon? All of them?

No, they'll leave the political prisoners behind.

Then why do we even bother? Let them run their little space exercises.
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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:41 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Chinese are going to the moon? All of them?

No, they'll leave the political prisoners behind.

Then why do we even bother? Let them run their little space exercises.

Cuz we are jealous

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RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 5:43 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 5:41 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:32 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:26 pm)Chuck Wrote:
(January 4, 2012 at 5:17 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: Chinese are going to the moon? All of them?

No, they'll leave the political prisoners behind.

Then why do we even bother? Let them run their little space exercises.

Cuz we are jealous
I'm not jelly, as a matter of fact.
They can have the moon, or the rest of the galaxy for all I care. That's probably the only Lebensraum groß enough to handle their massive numbers.
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