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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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They finally found the US documents to prove THERE IS NO MOON!!!
The found that after going to the moon, they'd have to go again in an hour. The additive cost was just too much.
With your next manned space fright.
CNN is reporting that China has scrapped its plans for a space station, due to cost. The Chinese government is committed, however, to launching at least three new biplanes this week.
of sending a man to the moon? To say they did it? It would be the biggest waste of money since I paid my taxes in April. I just don't see the rationale behind it - it's good they scrubbed it.
I wanted to see an international space race again... just because I might get the chance to work on the software systems. That's some really cool stuff. Perhaps China's space station and our space station can have drag races. That would be sweet! I can see it now, as the US station pulls ahead, race fans everywhere shout: WOO! "That's a big ten-four, you some b*tch monkey n*ts!" (Dr. Evil)
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When sending people to the moon you also have to work out how to get back. A space station is much cheaper because you don't have to get.... Oh wait.
Well, it's cheaper because when going to the moon you have to bring heavy equipment into space such as a Moon Rover etc. With a space station you don't have to bring any heavy.... Oh wait.
Um, it's cheaper because... Oh wait.
Huh, uh didn't the international space station cost Billions? Um. Yeah this makes NO sense.
well i'll be damned, i was logged in.
I simply refuse to put up with limp, Satanic, fellow-travelling shit like this piece of sub-human garbage in your pewling, idiotic post:
"Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!)"
1. The Earth does not "rotate". If it did, we would all be blown around ten ways to Tuesday by the winds created.
2. If the Earth did rotate, then one would expect to see tornadoes in the area at the centre of rotation. This would imply that Kansas is the centre of the Earth, a thought pleasing to my personal sympathies, but contradicted by scripture. There has never been a tornado in Jerusalem!
3. Joshua asked Our Lord to stop the Sun, you ignorant asshole, not the Earth. What possible good would it have done to stop the Earth from moving?
4. Your blasphemous statement that the Moon "reflects" light from the Sun directly contradicts Genesis 3:16, in which it is made perfectly clear that "he created the moon, that the slimy crawling things by night might see". Which part of "he created", don't you understand? Your pathetic advocacy of the fraudulent theory (and it IS a THEORY, not some bourgeois, East-Coast elitist idea of a "fact") is sickening.
Your evil whinings are, quite frankly, tantamount to liberalism.
Technoli
If China doesn't get to the moon then how am I going to get good Chinese food when I'm there. No doubt there will be a McDonalds but after seeing Super Size Me I never want to eat there again.
"...Bush and his crony Ashcroft..."
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Something seems backwards about this statement
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except that it'll get crunched by a giant plant when it lands. If that wasn't the best arguement for turn out the lights...
In "2010 Space Odyssey", China developed a Space Station in orbit around the Earth. At least everyone thought it was a Space Station until they attached huge rocket engines to it an blasted off into space.
Could it ever happen?
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Author C. Clark
...that's a moon!
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The Moon is about 356,614Km from the Earth at closest approach. China is home to about 1.3B people. A column of Chinese people, stacked in "human triangles" sitting on one another's shoulders (1m high), would reach the moon, leaving over 230M people. Half to clamber up (then down) to the Lunar surface, at a rate of about 1Km:h, reaching the surface in about 20 years, splitting their population evenly between the planets in under 4 years. And they only have to scale up their acrobat budgets, not that risky American rocket science.
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