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Two Views On a China-US Space Race
An anonmous submitter writes "While there has been recent discussion about China and India engaging in a space race, most people are still focused on a potential race between China and the US in near future. The Space Review recently published a pair of essays on this topic: the first argues that China-US space race is both unlikely and undesirable, given the aftermath of the US-USSR space race thirty years ago. A followup article suggests that a China-US space race is vital, so long as it takes a more commercial, long-term approach than the US-USSR one. Food for thought..."
> nothing to see or do really. move on to other things,
> and stop romanticising the big void.
Obviously you've never met Eccentrica Galumbits, the triple breasted whore of Eroticon Six.
Maybe they are racists?
Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Neither one of those articles mentions the race among Jupiter's moons between the Chinese spacecraft Tsien and the U.S.-Russian spacecraft Leonov, and how the Tsien crash-lands on Europa and gets devoured by a huge green bloatbeast from the alien waters, and how the Leonov meets up with an old American spacecraft and oh god I need to get outside. Open the front door, Hal.
The coolest voice ever.
The sooner you all get off my planet the better. Its like when you throw a party and 50,000 years later people are still passed out in your living room. -God
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
The Chinese are exploiting off-the-shelf software to figure out how to develop an ideal lunar colony. The US must stop the commercialization of valuable scientific knowledge so it doesn't fall into the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups.
Laws are for people with no friends.
I thought the space race had green skin, extra long fingers, big black eyes, and antennas on their heads.
Now you're telling me they're chinese?
Does anyone remember the waves of economic fear that ripped through American culture when faced with the Japanese Juggernaut of the 80's? If the fears of the day had come to pass we'd all be working for Shogun overlords, eating rice, and speaking a patois of several asian languages. Fortunately, the Japanese imported american work ethics and their economy went to pot.
China is a little different though. First of all, they have about 7 times the population that Japan did. Most of them have yet to join the world economy to any significant extent just yet. China has vast natural resources of its own instead of being forced to import everything. Finally, their government is not exactly friendly to the U.S..
Yes, it's time for a new wave of xenophobic fear! Time for diplomacy. Diplomacy being the fine art of saying "Nice doggy." until you can find a big enough stick.
The dinosaurs lived in perfect harmony with the planet. That worked out well for them.
Hang on, no, wait. They're all dead. My mistake.
Yep, no major problems. 30-years war, Napoleonic wars, Franco-Prussian war, WW I and II, enslavement of eastern europe by the Soviets. Dozens of other conflicts.
Hard to imagine a more peaceful time, really. Damn good thing those troublemakers left though, so they could come back and save your asses twice and hold off the Soviets for 50 years.