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China Scrubs Moon Mission Plans
Jim McCoy writes "CNN is reporting that according to China's state media, plans for a manned moon mission have been shelved due to cost. They are planning on a space station though..."
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Manned space exploration just doesn't make sense folks.
The Chinese moon mission? Didn't that involve a really, really big human pyramid?
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Did they never hear of Don Quixote?
Oh, no of course not: they're too busy
staring at their own navels.
Manned space exploration is a waste of money. Money is better spent on proactively attacking foreign countries under the assumption they might support terrorism in the future.
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Do you think this funny? I don't understand why there are still so many cocky and stupid people like you on this earth biasing against China. Damn you, idiot!!!!!!!
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Now granted China is the leader of black market and bootleg items but what engineering marvels are they responsable for? (Sans Great Wall) I'd be pretty damn impressed if they could make a decent car, (or bicycle) much less a space station. Really what nations want to jump in on that investment? All though, those free tupperwear containers that you get with the lunch specials are pretty kick ass, they're even microwave safe.... In all seriousness this is just politics. Smart money says they get to join the 16 nation coalition of the spacebound.
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Why doesn't China just deploy more hackers to steal money from the Internet?
Oh well, the less asians in space, the better.
Think about it. In a Communist system, when they spend money, they put the country in the position of a loss. In a Capitalist system, when the government spends money, it's like putting rocket fuel with a NOS bottle on the economy. Think of all the R&D and manufacturing industries that will profit greatly from such an expensive mission, and the enormous tax revenues that will be generated by such a thing. The country goes to the moon, the economy is hauling ass, and the government gets all the money back and tons more.
Capitalism. Because friends don't let friends go Communist.
Outrageous! Isn't it bad enough that the Chinese have been stereotyped for doing the laundry of others? Now we find out they can remove dirt from documents, too.
Wow, you're confused. I don't equate any of that together.
1) the economy is bad.
2) the government descisions being made are bad.
They are not necessarily related.
Do I think that putting shit to Mars makes fiscal sense? Absolutely not. We have more important shit to spend that money on.
Let's put it in a way that you can understand... You have people that are under you (family, whatever). They give you a portion of their income for you to do with in what you believe to be in their best interests. Some of your family members are dying of disease, hunger, and exposure yet you decide it would be a good idea to build a car from scratch and send it to another country so that you can explore the possibility of acquiring land there to possibly further your family's wealth and prosperity generations down the road.
Doesn't make much fucking sense does it?