If We Slow Our Pace, China Could Beat Our Return to the Moon

Hotair ^ | 11/13/2023 | John Sexton

[Nateman]

There are craters where the sun is never seen from their bottom. This is the place where ice has been collecting for millions of years. It is that ice which could used as fuel for missions all over the solar system, as well as for all the other uses people need water for. That is why it is important not to let China stake a claim before America does. It is probably the most important real estate in the Solar System that nobody has yet.

[equaviator]

I find it difficult to wrap my head around the idea that the Apollo missions to the moon were a colossal illusion intended for global consumption. It’s also difficult to understand how anyone could have expected those who recall the moments and their meaning to so much as think about changing their minds. In 1969, it was elderly senior citizens who doubted that it happened, but now we have deniers who hadn’t been born until after Skylab, or even 9/11 for that matter. It’s as if the whole theory was designed and conspired to insult the intelligence of the billions of people who remember it so well, not to mention the twelve brave Americans who walked on the moon and returned safely to the earth between 1969 and 1972.

[Alberta's Child]

There’s a reason why it’s been 51 years (and counting) since the last manned lunar mission — in an era of remarkable technological advances in all aspects of modern civilization.

For all the fanfare those missions generated, history will remember them as little more than national ego trips that provided almost no value in return.

That goofy stunt on the Apollo 14 mission when Alan Shepard brought a golf club and ball and teed off on the moon should have been the official end of the U.S. manned lunar exploration program.

[jmcenanly]

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.”

“Atlas Shrugged” – Ayn Rand

[exinnj]

Is there at least one reason why we need to return to the Moon? Or anywhere else outside of the Earth atmosphere…

[Organic Panic]

Gotta keep the trannies and muslims happy at NASA before we do anything like go back to the moon.

[Jan_Sobieski]

We’ve never sent a man to the moon. We can’t get a man through the Van Allen belts.

[PIF]

At this rate the Russians Ireland will beat us.

[PIF]

The government is not just slow walking, they are creating more and more barriers. After one part of the government finished their investigation, Fish & Wildlife “began” their review in early October. The Chicoms are probably funneling more $$$ to Hussein and Biden as long as they continue to hinder SpaceX.

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Killing SpaceX is likely to be a huge part of the Xi-Biden conference as JB’s contract with XI comes up for renewal tomorrow.

[PIF]

WHO CARES???????

Let them go to the moon and set up a lovely community.

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Your Mandarin is pretty good, you say?

[dfwgator]

I don’t think most Americans really care about this type of national achievement anymore.

"A rat bit my sister Nell...."

[NorthMountain]

Quit lying. Your website is devoid of truth and credibility.

[NorthMountain]

Quit lying. You know better than that, you’ve had it shown to you repeatedly.

[PIF]

Let the Chinese spend bi!lions to go to the moon. Rocks and dust and no air and no other resources worth the cost of getting them.

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You do know that only a tiny fraction of the moon has been explored? You do know that hi-res mapping of the moon’s surface is still classified SAP almost 30 years later?

Since you know that H3 is widely available on the moon, its only fitting that the Chinese mine it to make fusion reactors.

Nothing like mag rail driven launchers to bombard one’s enemies with large rocks from the moon.

You do know that control of the moon gives control of space and control over all the earth?

But then no one cares, right?

[NorthMountain]

Yes ... a lot of people today remind me of the racist jackasses from the late ‘60s and early ‘70s.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Quit lying. You know better than that, you’ve had it shown to you repeatedly.

I’m not lying. The Van Allen belts have an equivalent amount of radiation to nuclear blast. We can’t even get a monkey 🙊 through (alive).

[Brilliant]

I do think it would be good to return to the moon but who cares if China “beats” us? We’ve already beat them. My aim would be to do something new. Don’t repeat what’s already been done. Instead of using humans I would send robots to build infrastructure.

[9YearLurker]

And after we had a faked landing for our big, supposed, race with Russia 50 years ago.

[cgbg]

“Your website is devoid of truth and credibility.”

Lol.

I made up all that stuff in my spare time.

Bwahahahaha.

(hint: I had nothing to do with creating the website.)

[NorthMountain]

I made up all that stuff in my spare time.

Never said you did. It was made up by a bunch of ignorami in their spare time, of which they seem to have a lot.

Nevertheless, you promote it. Frequently. You can't escape some responsibility for the falsehoods contained therein.

You need to do better.

QUIT LYING.