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NASA Warns: 'We Better Watch Out' for China's Moon Program
Newsmax ^ | 1/1/2023 | Erick Mack

Posted on 01/01/2023 9:42:08 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan

Notably, the U.S. moon-landing timeline under former President Donald Trump has already lost a year under President Joe Biden – former White House press secretary Jen Psaki once mocked a question about Trump's Space Force program – and China is not slowing down.

"It's entirely possible they could catch up and surpass us, absolutely," Space Force Lt. Gen. Nina Armagno said in December. "The progress they've made has been stunning — stunningly fast."

hina's global superpower ambitions stretch out of this world, literally and figuratively, according to retired Col. Terry Virts, a former International Space Station and Space Shuttle commander.

"On one level, it is a political competition to show whose system works better," Virts told Politico. "What they really want is respect as the world's top country. They want to be the dominant power on Earth, so going to the moon is a way to show their system is working. If they beat us back to the moon it shows they are better than us."

And, he added, "There is potentially mischief China can do on the moon."

"If they set up infrastructure there they could potentially deny communications, for example. Having them there doesn't make things easier. There is real concern about Chinese meddling."

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To: Wonder Warthog

The Intelligence community and the Biden Administration are getting to kneecap Musk if he keeps pushing Twitter to allow more free speech and refuses to censor views that run counter to the narrative they are pushing.

You are already hearing calls for investigations into Musk to see if he’s national security risk.


41 posted on 01/01/2023 1:07:35 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: GingisK
China will stomp our butts because Americans no longer have a will to excel, or even take math courses for that matter.

I think you give the Chinese too much credit. The masses are getting decadent, and losing their will to excel. They want to party just like the decadent westerners. Throw in sexual deviants, booze and drugs, and they will not be focusing on math. China will decline.

42 posted on 01/01/2023 1:09:16 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Leaning Right
I feel that same way about the Moon. Yes, some fancy gadgets can come out of the program. But in general it’s a waste of resources.

My understanding is that a moon base was planned back in the Apollo era had recoverable water been discovered. Water was not discovered and for the 20 or so years post-Apollo, there was no point in returning.

That has changed now that recoverable water has been discovered.

Recoverable water provides an energy source once the hydrogen atoms have been split from the oxygen atom.

43 posted on 01/01/2023 1:22:41 PM PST by fso301
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To: srmanuel

I don’t think it is comparable.


44 posted on 01/01/2023 2:02:08 PM PST by gibsonguy (He )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

We better watch out for China, period.


45 posted on 01/01/2023 2:53:18 PM PST by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: WMarshal

STOP now with the Muslim outreach BS it’s old and just stupid


46 posted on 01/01/2023 3:09:53 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

NASA

About as reliable as the Hill these days, when it come to
accurate single sourced information.


47 posted on 01/01/2023 3:12:02 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the U S of A & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands)
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To: alternatives?

Do you have any idea what % of the fed budget nasa is. Umm SS and Medicare are the biggest outlays nasa is way down on the list.


48 posted on 01/01/2023 3:21:56 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: rx

Oh stop with the fake moon landing hoax BS.


49 posted on 01/01/2023 3:23:43 PM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

You have to start someplace. You are not going to cut SS or Medicare. Use the money spent at NASA for WOKE training and green energy if you want. Take it from Ukraine.


50 posted on 01/01/2023 3:27:25 PM PST by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
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To: HombreSecreto

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51 posted on 01/01/2023 3:30:36 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: markman46
How Leftist of you to come here meeting solid evidence with an empty accusation of claimed misinformation!

Successful conservative posters here argue using evidence, facts and reasoning. Losers without those resort to fact-free drive-by smears as do you.

52 posted on 01/01/2023 5:07:36 PM PST by rx
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To: rx

really ok i watched it live in black and white tv.. its not fake you bring fake misinformation to this site.


53 posted on 01/02/2023 10:14:57 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46

Well, Mr. Misinformation Accuser (MMA), lest you cause everyone to think Hasselblad camera optics and/or film (used for all Apollo “lunar” stills) just couldn’t register stars and are therefore completely inferior to Chinese optics and CCDs, show us any official NASA Hasselblad lunar photo that shows evidence of stars.

“Ther aren’t any!” you say? Just how can that be?

NASA proopagandistically has tried to say that fact had to do with the shutter speed used by the Hasselblads, but Armstrong and Collins also stated that they couldn’t see any, either, whether from their lunar craft windows or directly through their helmets’ visors. How is that, MMA? Bzzzt! Red flag! Error!

NASA has been irrevocably been caught with its pants down, having therefore even shown to have laundered billions of US taxpayer dollars.


54 posted on 01/02/2023 3:30:06 PM PST by rx
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To: rx

Excellent post—probably went over most Freeper’s heads.

The best “moon hoax” web site imho is this one:

https://www.aulis.com/investigation.htm


55 posted on 01/02/2023 3:36:30 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: rx

Hang in there, my FRiend.

Folks have been brainwashed by the Mockingbird Media—it is an uphill battle to fight that.


56 posted on 01/02/2023 3:38:02 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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