Asia's Space Race: China vs. India

securitas writes "London-based military historian and commentator Gwynne Dyer writes about Asia's developing space race with plans from China and India to land people on the Moon, previously mentioned on Slashdot in China's case. In April India announced it will send an unmanned probe to the Moon by 2005 and a manned mission by 2015. Critics say it's a waste of time and money for India to pursue the goal. Meanwhile, Russian space experts are quietly helping China in what is seen as a growing alliance and a somewhat alarmist op-ed piece from the Washington Times worries about China's 21st century space dominance and monopolization of strategic resources like H3, used in nuclear fusion."

Comments

Re:just what we need..

[s10god]

But knowing China they probably won't be to concerned about the returning safly part....

Re:One good thing....

[paganizer]

AT least we can be absolutely, 100% certain it won't be french.
On second thought...
With the 4th Reich having full control over Europe these days, maybe the Germans will allow the French to cater.

Re:Finally

[jeff munkyfaces]

what the fuck man. you truly are a cock, just like your fat american friends.

Have you been to China or India lately?

[ToadMan8]

Outside of Beijing anyway. Have you seen the standard of living? The Soviet Union was in a even better state when they got into the space race. The United States was in far better shape. But considering China is having problems controlling disease in their own country, India has it's own bevy of problems (which I'm not even going to address)... It's bad enough they are spending money that could be spent other places building nuclear arms (well, Clinton helped out with his donation of the ICBM plans to China, so I guess that's more cost effective now).

They're trying to prove a point of technological prowess, probably largely from the defense anglge, just as the Soviet Union did. I don't want to tell people how to run their countries (well, perhaps I do) but I simply don't see this as the best idea. Leave it to the US, EU and new former Soviet Union.

Re:Prediction of future events

[dvk]

> 5. ... Meanwhile, millions more americans will be on welfare and also starving to death.

If there's anyone on welfare in America, today or in the future, the fault is with left-leaning feel-good liberals like yourself. People who think that irresponsibility should be rewarded, and hard work taxed to pay for those rewards.
That women who're "poor" should be rewarded for being too stupid to do family plannning (and to fuck around before getting married) by me paying for their kids' welfare/food/education/medicine, while I have to put off having my first kid so that my wife can finish college because I know that even my reasonably decent salary can't support the level of life and education I'd like to give my child unless my wife works too, because ~40% of my income is taken away by taxes and a large part is being put aside so when i'm retired i don't have to rob other people like myself by getting paid their taxed money.

Let the modding down begin, for it's a lot easier to mod down someone you disagree with politically than to reply with reasonable arguments.

-DVK