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Why is China targeting the moon -- and should NASA as well?
FOX News ^ | December 6, 2013 | By Jeremy A. Kaplan

Posted on 12/06/2013 5:25:38 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

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1 posted on 12/06/2013 5:25:38 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I think that that UN Moon guy should be targeted....


2 posted on 12/06/2013 5:27:39 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Brad from Tennessee

We’re ceding the high ground.


3 posted on 12/06/2013 5:29:08 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Control of space can certainly mean control of the planet.


4 posted on 12/06/2013 5:29:32 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Brad from Tennessee
It's all that cheese man...
The Chicoms are trying to corner the market.
5 posted on 12/06/2013 5:32:24 PM PST by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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6 posted on 12/06/2013 5:34:58 PM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They are going to the moon on the interest we owe them on our debt. We can only watch and remember that, at least, we were the first to land and for peaceful purposes.


7 posted on 12/06/2013 5:35:31 PM PST by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: Olog-hai

If we intend to move out into the rest of the solar system, the moon will be the most likely launch platform. The gravity is low enough that a lot of payloads can probably be launched into lunar orbit with railguns.


8 posted on 12/06/2013 5:36:00 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

FWIW…..It’s still so hard to believe that more men have walked on the Moon over a four year period than had signed up for 0bamacare on the first day of October...


9 posted on 12/06/2013 5:36:32 PM PST by FDNYRHEROES (It's 3 AM. Let me sleep on it. I'll get back to you in 16 hours.)
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The high ground is exactly what it represents. Whoever controls the high ground controls the engagement. That was true in WWII, in terms of control of Germany’s air space. Newt Gingrich once suggested we build a base on the moon, for which he was lambasted by the supposedly scientifically-minded progressive liberals.


10 posted on 12/06/2013 5:43:40 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Obama has directed NASA to target Moslems . . . for outreach programs. Advancing America is the opposite of his goal.
11 posted on 12/06/2013 5:44:21 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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If the Chinese build a military facility on the moon, they’ll probably call it CAMP CLINTON. They received our space secrets for the cost of a few hundred thousand bucks to the Clinton campaign.


12 posted on 12/06/2013 5:44:24 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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13 posted on 12/06/2013 5:45:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Fire Muschamp. Go Michigan State!)
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To: cripplecreek
We’re ceding the high ground.

Not really. Does China have a national park on the moon?

14 posted on 12/06/2013 5:46:26 PM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sorry, NASA’s much too busy fellating 7th century goathumpers . . .


15 posted on 12/06/2013 5:50:08 PM PST by tomkat
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To: FDNYRHEROES

That was good.


16 posted on 12/06/2013 5:51:40 PM PST by RKBA Democrat ( There is no worst president but owebama, and valerie jarrett is his prophet.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

These proposed missions to an asteroid and Mars are just misdirection IMO. Obama has no intention of allowing the US to take a space leadership roll at all and these long range ideas are just red herrings for public consumption. If China or others build facilities on the moon, the US will simply cheer them on. We need completely new leadership in the US before anything bold and real is considered again.


17 posted on 12/06/2013 6:16:49 PM PST by Truth29
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Yep. Newt was laughed at and mocked for this. *sigh*


18 posted on 12/06/2013 6:31:53 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Truth29

China will declare an ADIZ around the Moon, if the United States fails to act.


19 posted on 12/06/2013 6:38:02 PM PST by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Related and amazing story: http://www.thecredits.org/2013/09/bras-in-space-the-incredible-true-story-behind-upcoming-film-spacesuit/

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20 posted on 12/06/2013 6:42:34 PM PST by daniel1212 (Come to the Lord Jesus as a contrite damned+destitute sinner, trust Him to save you, then live 4 Him)
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