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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."
I wonder if they will actually LAND on the moon. According to a LOT of people, Armstrong & Co. did not! Some of the pictures are pretty convincing! Though I am not entirely sure that I am conviced myself ;)
Also the matter of cosmic radiation etc... Interesting, interesting!
Any technology distinguishable from magic, is insufficiently advanced.
Yet they want to join the superpowers of the world in the 21st century. India really has bigger problems too worry about then putting a man on the moon. Any intelligent person should not look respectfully at India as a country until the caste system is snuffed out in every form. Not just in the symbolic laws that were put in the books.
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In a land where the poor outnumber the rich and there is no middle class, what logical step is next but....A SPACE PROGRAM OFCOARSE. Why didnt I think of it?
This is what they all meant by "Just get over it..."
Check back with me in 2015, and see if the handwriting wan't all over the walls by 2001, for those with eyes to see.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Here is my view of what our leaders are thinking...
Rumsfeld: "Yes senator, I realize that the Chinese may acheive superiority in manned spaceflight. But that is irrelevant, because we still have the firepower to blow them up."
Ashcroft: "Instead of learning from their space program, we plan on taking ideas from their 1980s social agendas. The USA Patriot act 2015, plans on monitoring actual human thought with brain implants!"
Bush: "Space Program!? Nah, lets spend our money launching million dollar cruise missiles at people living in caves."