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China plans Moon base for 2010
New Scientist ^
| 20 May 02
| Will Knight
Posted on 05/20/2002 7:32:30 AM PDT by aculeus
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:32:30 AM PDT
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Well, the first question to ask would by why? The answer, I think, is not "to test the limits of our knowledge."
To: aculeus
If you'd ever seen a Chinese train or a Chinese domestic airliner, you'd assume that any space hardware built by the Chinese would merely make a new crater in the moon.
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:36:01 AM PDT
by
GingisK
To: aculeus
Clinton/Gore turned Jiang's space program into a regular JFK.
To: aculeus
On the way there, they will accidentally wreck into the space shuttle and try to blame it on the hot dog American pilot.
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:38:10 AM PDT
by
Hacksaw
To: aculeus
All our base are belong to them?
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:38:13 AM PDT
by
B Knotts
To: aculeus
This is great news. This will push the US (and particularly NASA) out of their lethargy and we may start to get some space action at last after 30 years of doing much less than we could be doing.
In fairness to NASA, the US public had lost interest in space but perhaps now we can use the national security angle again, with a Chinese base having the same threat as the Sputnik did in 1957...
To: aculeus
Oberg's a sharp guy, and he's probably correct.
FWIW, he correctly predicted that for ISS the Russians would experience the very financial and schedule difficulties that they ended up having.
Still, if we grant the premise that the Chinese want to do this, there's no technical or economic reason for them to do so. It'd all be about stature.
But again, Oberg's correct. It would take a tremendous amount of logistics to support a moon base (not just moon landings). It's highly doubtful that they could actually support one any time soon.
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:44:37 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: aculeus
They don't have a blue water navy, but they think they can colonize the moon? Talk about denial....
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:47:57 AM PDT
by
Mr. Bird
To: aculeus
China's first and last attempt!
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:48:56 AM PDT
by
Ed_NYC
To: aculeus
The United States must not allow the Red Chinese a free hand to establish a human presence in space. We must preempt thier efforts by establishing outposts at strategic locations (north and south poles of the moon, Mars) ahead of them.
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:52:21 AM PDT
by
crypt2k
To: aculeus
"Bejiing, the Clinton has landed"
"That's one small step for espionage, and one giant leap for Democratic Fundraising"
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posted on
05/20/2002 7:53:48 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
To: aculeus
There are a lot of folks in here who would love to have whatever the Chinese are smoking these days.
To: crypt2k
Yes. It won't do to simply sit back and deride China's efforts.
To: aculeus
haha..they better just concentrate on getting a man into space first...then we can ship them all to the moon!
To: Aggie Mama
I think the answer is that they are just looking for more places to put all their people...1.4 billion and growing..
To: Mr. Bird
They don't have a blue water navy, but they think they can colonize the moon?Sure beats the alternative...
I say go for it, Jiang.
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posted on
05/20/2002 8:06:44 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: Mr. Bird
They don't have a blue water navy, but they think they can colonize the moon? Talk about denial.... If they can colonize the moon, they won't need a blue water navy. Nor will they need a big armoury of missiles, or for that matter, much in the way of warheads.
Set up a few necessary structures on the moon (with some defenses), and you can control things pretty well. The chicoms may well see this as rewarding enough to override any smalltime economic objections... err.. reality.
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posted on
05/20/2002 8:13:27 AM PDT
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Cachelot
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To: GingisK
"If you'd ever seen a Chinese train or a Chinese domestic airliner, you'd assume that any space hardware built by the Chinese would merely make a new crater in the moon." ...he posts, using countless high-tech components manufactured in China. ;-)
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05/20/2002 8:41:25 AM PDT
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OBAFGKM
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