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China Plans Moonbase
jfruhlinger writes: "According to this BBC news article, the Chinese government plans to put a human on the moon by 2010, with the long-term goal of 'set[ting] up a base on the moon and min[ing] its riches for the benefit of humanity.' The article seems to think that the program is more for the benefit of China's defense and aerospace industry. D'ya think they can pull it off?"
One would have expected a CAPITALIST nation to be the first to start strip-mining one of the few untouched natural resources we have left. But it's for "The Benefit of Humanity", so that makes it alright.
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Jeez, I guess they must have run out of room for their extensive chain of gulags and slave labor camps down here on Earth.
Correction:
I hear there's vast deposits of MSG.
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Your logic is typically skewed (typical of the Apollo believers that is).
Your starting from a position of belief a priori that the Apollo missions actually succeeded. There is no reason to do so as the evidence is completely absent therefore your logical assertion is a fallacy.
If you can prove that the Apollo missions were successful (in a manner consistent with Government propaganda that is) then your statement would be true. But I doubt you can manage that.
Also, perhaps you can concede that if the Chinese don't manage "sending a man to the moon and bringing him back alive" with 21st century technology then logically 1960s technology is equally inefficient -- unless you also wish to attempt to prove that technology is not as advanced as it was.
. . .are why I hope the Chinese are the ones to conquer and colonize the Moon and Mars. They have the vision and the Will to explore, which we in the fat, soft, piggish West have long lost. Thank goodesss someone hasn't.