Archived China to build moon station in 'about 10 years' - China aims to achieve space superpower status (phys.org)
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Archived China to build moon station in 'about 10 years' - China aims to achieve space superpower status (phys.org)
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[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
When you're spending over 8 billion dollars will trumps spending power. Nasa wears a hundred shackles, strings attached to every dollar it spends. I won't be surprised if China beats the US to the moon this time around
[–] Broc_Lia 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
The problem isn't that NASA has too many restrictions, it's that they have no purpose as an organisation.
[–] AmaleksHairyAss 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The lack of purpose is directly attributable to the strings. Obama tells them to make nicey nice with the Muslims and look at earth. Bush 2 tells them to make SRS and do spy stuff. Trump tells them to go to the moon and stop looking at earth. No large, serious NASA program survives a presidential election. Nasa has had the budget to do a moon landing every year since the first one if we had stuck to that.
[–] GreatWhiteNorth 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
It's both.
[–] ardvarcus 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
Space is hard. Japan can't do it. China can't do it. India can't do it. They don't have the "right stuff" (i.e., white Christian men).
[–] GreatWhiteNorth 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
China is already doing it. They launch astronauts on they're own rockets to Chinese space stations. The US hasn't launched crews since 2011, and only have a gay "International Space Station" because building one on their own was too hard.
[–] Gayzmcgee ago
If only the (((strings))) were cut.
Oh, what we'd achieve...
[–] tom9152 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
China's going to Mars too
[–] ardvarcus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
"Chinks ... in ... spaaaaaaaace!"
[–] Broc_Lia ago
Okay... and what's it going to get them? Shitty science experiments to discover more efficient ways to burn money in a vaccuum?
[–] GreatWhiteNorth 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Mining on the Moon.
[–] Broc_Lia ago
... costs more than mining on earth. Still a net loss for them.
[–] [deleted] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
[–] Fullmetal ago
India can't run a call center. Why do you think they'll make it to the Moon?