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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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To: Aggie Mama
The moonbase will be called X-42, in honor of China's greatest technological benefactor.
To: First Team;crypt2k
To: ALL
Why not a moon base?
The worst mistake we made was cancelling / throttling our space program to low earth orbit.
We should have pushed farther faster and quicker.
This nation was built on pioneers and it's DAMN time we remembered that and went after the new ground...
I'd be willing to take a "conastoga wagon" too space and find some ground to live free on ......any day!
Our best days were when we we expanding and right now we are contracting through polilitical correctness to a whimper of what we once were.
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05/20/2002 8:47:22 AM PDT
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Kakaze
To: OBAFGKM
using countless high-tech components manufactured in China
There is a major difference between manufactured in China & designed in China!
To: First Team
There will come a time in the not too distant future ( next few decades) when space (the inner solar system, for starters) will be the new economic frontier. The US has the options of keeping its present lead or throwing it away through ignorance and complacency.
To: aculeus
China...will establish a base on the moon as we did in the South Pole and the North Pole." China Daily quotes Ziyuan as saying. He did not say whether China's mission to the Moon would be manned. Stupid question, but can you really call it a moon base if it's an unmanned mission?
To: Sword_of_Gideon
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05/20/2002 9:08:57 AM PDT
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OBAFGKM
To: Right Whale
Moon base ping.
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05/20/2002 9:11:25 AM PDT
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OBAFGKM
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To: First Team
Maybe the Chinese are planning to colonize the moon for a Palestinian homeland...
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05/20/2002 9:18:22 AM PDT
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Cicero5
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To: aculeus
"China is expected to complete its first exploration of the moon in 2010 and will establish a base on the moon as we did in the South Pole and the North Pole."The NORTH pole???
ROTFLMAO!!!!
To: nightdriver
That's how good they are - you can't even tell it's there...
To: aculeus
James Oberg, a veteran of the US space programme and an authority on manned space flight, says China is unlikely to send astronauts to the Moon. "They don't have the budget or the technology," Oberg told New Scientist. "Their whole approach has been remarkably cautious. Robot missions make much more sense." But Oberg believes China could feasibly construct a small space station.
Yeah, just keep telling yourself this so you can continue along doing the crappy job you've been doing on getting human beings beyond Earth orbit. Don't be surprised, however, when the Chinese have a working moon base in 2010.
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05/20/2002 9:27:13 AM PDT
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Junior
To: OBAFGKM
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To: aculeus
To: Aggie Mama
Well, the first question to ask would by why? The answer, I think, is not "to test the limits of our knowledge."The next question is: "who cares?"
Been there, done that.
Nothing up there but a bunch of sterile rocks and dust.
If the Chinese can figure out how to raise dogs and rice up there, good for them.
To: aculeus
Thank you, Bill Clinton.
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05/20/2002 10:09:05 AM PDT
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MistrX
To: Willie Green
Nothing up there but a bunch of sterile rocks and dust We may find out this fall if there is indeed water at the south pole region. It isn't NASA sending the robot, but ESA.
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