Posted on 12/04/2020 6:19:06 AM PST by Alter Kaker
Hey Xi, you’re a bit late. The US laid its claim there a few generations ago.
We should sent and interspace cruise missile to destroy it!
Yep, they will soon own the high ground while the ISS is over 20 years old and continues to fall apart.
China is launching the first modules of its new space station next year, already selecting 18 astronauts to build it.
China is moving forward with plans for moon bases while we send more women up for tampon studies.
NASA is a joke these days, fading away while commercial spaceflight takes over, rudderless leadership, living off the past. Might as well shut down the manned spaceflight programs, they arent going anywhere.
I stand corrected (see my post 20). Forgot that he got money.
You’re right! There’s even a partially visible object in the background at the bottom right side of the flag. The shadow doesn’t seem right, at least not “falling” in the same direction as other objects on the ground.
Very true but Xi Jinping is willing to exploit China's current advantage with only South Africa's Elon Musk being the only real obstacle. NASA and Trump's US Space Force will be victims of the Harris-Biden's social justice budgets.
No shadows
That appears to me to be the mechanism that extended the flag. I imagine a scissor-like mechanism behind the flag, that extends from the square flag pole, behind the flag to where you see the ends of the two scissor arms - at the top and bottom right edges of the flag.
So I think they really did get the probe there, and did open their little flag. But as others have pointed out, we did it over 50 years ago, with people.
I’m surprised there aren’t containers of lost Biden ballots in those photos.
“That appears to me to be the mechanism that extended the flag.”
Yeah...I was wondering about that. Thanks
But you know what they say about the Chinese planting a flag on the moon, don’t you...?
They plant a flag on the moon....and an hour later, they want to plant another one. ;-)
Yeah, shadows of the lander antennae don’t seem consistent with the flagpole footing shadow. Hope they don’t get any wind there or else it will topple. I guess the lander is staying there.
Dedicated to Quix.
They looked like giant Chop Stick covers to offer the Chinese astronauts to the carnivorous Lunar gods. Why else would you send the Chinese astronauts there without a return flight, and besides, look at the telltale single footprint leading towards the flag, then the dropped chop stick cover, and nothing is left. It got ‘em!
LOL. And I thought the moon was made of innocuous cheese!
I can’t wait for them to start throwing rice bowls at us./sarc/
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