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Why the next man on the moon will be Chinese
The Guardian ^
| 07/02/09
| Alok Jha and David Adam
Posted on 07/02/2009 6:52:22 PM PDT by KevinDavis
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To: Alberta's Child
Why would anyone WANT to go back to the moon? Helium-3. Whoever owns the moon owns the Saudi Arabia of the last half of the 21st century.
The Chinese are simply thinking more strategically than the United States is.
I'd say the Apollo program provided very little in return for the enormous cost of the endeavor.
That's just silly. Even ignoring everything we got from Apollo, the cost was a fraction of what we spend on Medicare in any given year.
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07/02/2009 8:19:07 PM PDT
by
Technogeeb
(The only good Russian is a dead Russian. Rest in Peace, Solzhenitsyn.)
To: dr_lew
Sadly, I saw Challenger, too.
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07/02/2009 9:05:29 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: Technogeeb
I agree, some remarkably short-sighted people reside around here.
When they send MORE THAN 12 men to the moon and bring everyone safely back like we did, then I might be impressed.
Til then, don't wake me up.
The Ruskies attempted a moon landing at the same time we did. Theirs crashed and burned. But being a totalitarian state, they were able to hide it for 50 years.
The rest of the world will NEVER best us in technology.
Course, they could hire American quislings like Bernie Schwartz at Loral to improve their technology ...
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posted on
07/03/2009 5:05:49 PM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(Obama and the Dem Congress will spend $5 trillion every year of his presidency until they break US!)
To: Technogeeb
Not to mention that a functioning moon base is the stepping stone to the rest of the solar system. 1/6 gravity, 1/6 gravity well and 1/6 escape velocity necessary for spacecraft.
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07/03/2009 5:07:36 PM PDT
by
HeartlandOfAmerica
(Obama and the Dem Congress will spend $5 trillion every year of his presidency until they break US!)
To: KevinDavis
It's not as easy as people seem to think to go to the Moon. The Chicoms haven't even taken the first baby steps to get there.
From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.
Jim Lovell in the movie Apollo 13.
We've decided to go back, if Zero doesn't dismantle the program.
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07/06/2009 1:04:06 PM PDT
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colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
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