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Asia's Space Race: China vs. India

Posted by timothy on from the let's-not-fight-it-out-please dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Not as smart as any other... by CaseyB · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Riiight. In the same way, people in Ethiopia are far better fed than people in Luxembourg, because the total calorie consumption in Ethiopia is much greater.

  2. Re:just what we need.. by eyeye · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Chamberlain felt so guilty he gave the Sudetenland and Checkoslovakia to Hitler. His actions almost led to world domination by the Nazi's. He did so because he thought he could make peace and somehow right the wrongs the British committed. He refered to it as "Peace in Our Time". Tens of millions died as a result of his "Peace".

    You say this but then say this:

    Too many so called liberals want to, for example, hand over Israel just like Chamberlain handed over Checkoslovakia.

    Really the parallel is the British handing over palestine to the jews to make up for feeling bad about what happened to them.
    Now...look where that got us!

    Who are these liberals who want to "hand over israel" anyway, do they exist outside of your imagination? Most liberals (in your definition) just want israel to stop illegally occupying land that umpteen UN resolutions has called for.
    --
    Bush and Blair ate my sig!
  3. Re:just what we need.. by jo42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

    Someone that used their brain and peeped up about the true nature of the source of the cause of conflict in the middle-east today.

    Just who invaded who's land - it sure as weren't the Arabs...