Why China is focused on the Moon: The Belt and Road initiative has spread to outer space

The Spectator ^ | 06/03/2024 | David Whitehouse

[Persevero]

Honestly I see it as a massive waste of money and talent.

I know it was a major achievement and paid off in cred and discoveries and stuff.

But to keep going back and back I don’t see the ROI. If there is one let private companies invest it.

I salute the heroic astronauts and extraordinary scientists who made the moon landings happen. But I see little value in doing it again and again. So let the Chicoms waste their “capital” if they want.

[dfwgator]

A rat done bit my sister Nell, and Chinky’s on the Moon.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

It reached lunar orbit a few days later and began waiting for sunrise over its landing site on the Moon’s far side.

I already smell the BS.

There would be no sunrise over its landing spot. There is no sunrise or sunset on the moon. The landing site is either on the bright side or the dark side of the moon.

Due to a quirk of nature, the moon rotates on its axis so that the same side is always facing the sun.

[going hot]

Really?

[Cold Heart]

facing the earth.
Lunar day is 29.5 earth days

[Lazamataz]

Due to a quirk of nature, the moon rotates on its axis so that the same side is always facing the sun.

Respectfully submitted, I don't think that's correct. If I understand correctly, the moon is tidally-locked with Earth, and one side always faces us.

However, it is not tidally-locked with the sun and it is illuminated by it in various locations, as it orbits us.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

facing the earth.

You are correct! I got it backwards. If you're on the moon, the earth in the sky would never move.

[logi_cal869]

As I stated in a recent comment...

We squandered it all,

and

Leftists deserve to suffer TERRIBLY for their ‘achievements’, the latest - that we know of - being 5/30.

[Nateman]

Is the survival of humanity or Civilization worth it? The capacity to destroy ourselves has been around for decades. Even the two bit countries are acquiring that technology. How much longer can this hold out? If Civilization exists off Earth it increases the chances of Civilization surviving immensely.

Given the advances in automation space explotation also has the potential of ushering in an industrial revolution that will dwarf the first one. Is that worth something?

[Captainpaintball]

So what...We gots BLACK CULTURE. we gots DIVERSITY. We gots LGBTQIAA++ sheeit. We gots uh, uh...

[Persevero]

An industrial revolution is worth something. But I prefer it in the hands of private enterprise like the last one.

I don’t believe in extra terrestrial living possibility. So that is not a factor for me.

[Owen]

What exactly is special about private enterprise as it functions to earn a profit of that substance created whimsically by QE — money.

A lifetime of believing isms about money was, or should have been, shattered by Bernanke who was forced to pull the curtain back and reveal to the common man that money is entirely whimsical and nothing whimsical can be the basis of any morality

[Nateman]

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko would disagree . He set a world record for total time spent in space, 878 days.

[montag813]

Below: Chang'e flies to the Moon drawn by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1862)

[montag813]

Even during the Moon landings, the US never had the kind of national support that China’s space effort seems to have.

[SaveFerris]

I can’t pay my rent....
and Wang is on the Moon...

[SaveFerris]

Oh you beat me to it!

GOOD JOB!

[SaveFerris]

You know, you would have thought that he would have at
least been happy when O.J. Simpson landed on Mars.

Or New Mexico. Or Nevada. Or wherever it was.

She’s on the roof!

[DannyTN]

Is the dark side of the moon where the Amazon women are?

They're just going to laugh at the little Chinese and then use them as kickballs until they fly off the moon.