[vannrox]

Thank you Mr. Clinton.

[dc-zoo]

Yes they will land on the moon soon as GW kicks their ass hard enough. Well we can hope anyway.

[per loin]

The thanks are due, not only to Bill Clinton, but to all those apostles of the "free trade" religion, who have encouraged the transfer of our industrial base to China. Enjoy those corporate profits while they last, traitors. They are very temporary.

[FReepaholic]

Ten or fifteen years from now, when we look up at the moon and realize that the Chinese are up there, how are we gonna feel?

Will the people and the media start clamoring and yelling for NASA to get up there. Will they call for investigations on why we allowed our "lead" in space to be surpassed?

Our space program has no vision. (at least the leadership has no vision).

[RightWhale]

What is it with this Mr Clinton business? He's gone 2 years and we still don't have a respectable space exploration program. China, at least sees the need for such a thing. Don't blame China and don't blame Clinton. It's our own fault there is any threat of competition in space at all. We were 30-40 years ahead of everyone except Russia and eventually caught up to Russia and went beyond. Then we stopped. STOPPED for no reason. We could have run away from everyone so far and so fast they would have to ask which direction we went. But we didn't. So we have competitors. It isn't Clinton that made this possible. It's US, the citizens of this complacent, rest on its laurels country who let this happen. The race to the goal-line was over, we won, but we dropped the ball on the 2-yard line. Doesn't matter how fast we were, how good. We chose to not win the whole game, so now we're threatened by people we didn't even see as being interested in the race.

Clinton, ptui, blame ourselves.

[rs79bm]

They will land on the moon like Europe has a successful rocket.

[rs79bm]

Any by the way, what are they going to do when they get there? Build a DVD player?

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

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[Fintan]

The propulsion system...

[Truthsayer20]

Some of the comments on this thread remind me of the common American perception before WW2 that the Japanese could never build a modern fighter aircraft let alone fly them successfully against American pilots.

[spoiler2]

BTTT

[M Kehoe]

Thank you Mr. Clinton.

Thank you Loral. Thank you Bernie. Thank you Ron Brown.

Thanks DNC.

I just hope the east coast is out of range.

5.56mm

[mass55th]

"Soon we will land on the moon."

Don't forget to send a postcard once you learn how to write!

[Doc Savage]

Just in: Bejieng (Peking)AP: China Moon Probe Raunched During Wrong Phase

Wun-Hung-Lo, the top space scientist for China today admitted that they made a serious error in Raunching their first attempted manned mission to the moon. Instead of attempting to Rand on a "Full Moon", they attempted a Randing whiRe the moon was onRy one-quarter fuRR, thereby missing the moon aRtogether.

Wing-Tip-Shoo, the mission commander, immediately radioed that the mission was not a complete faiRure as they are now headed towards Mars and wiRR atReast have something to Rook at as they freeze to death in the darkness of space.

[pabianice]

What a pipe dream! It took the US -- which INVENTED aviation -- a Manhattan Project-sized effort to do it and, in 2002 dollars, approximately half a trillion dollars. The Chinese will not be landing on the Moon anytime in the the lifetime of any adult alive today.

[Major Matt Mason]

This is old news. Quidam was talking about this back in the good ol' impeachment days, or even before that. Wonder what happened to the Q-man?

[Man of the Right]

This great power chauvinism is based entirely on running a massive trade surplus with the U.S. The moment we pull the plug, they go back to starving to death.

[tallhappy]

ChiComs are incredibly delusional.

[patriot_wes]

"Soon we will land on the moon".

...they'll sure be surprised when they go to start the ole lunar rover!