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China Scrubs Moon Mission Plans

Posted by michael on from the couldn't-hold-breath-long-enough dept.

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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  1. Welfare by glrotate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yet many of the same people modding my post down decry Lockheed TRW Boeing etc for getting too much corporate welfare.

  2. Liberal erosion of rights...? by crazyhorse44 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I must concede that the Democrats have curtailed rights in some areas... such as gun control... it is UNDENIABLE that Bush and his crony Ashcroft have done more damage to our Constitutional liberties in the past 3 years than the Democratic Party has done since its inception.

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  3. Re:Shelved due to cost... by Damek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, I don't want to work with you, so that pretty much throws a wrench in that plan right there...

  4. Re:Fodder by blunte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, see that worked. Here's another. You fools are playing into my hand.

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  5. Re:Fear by stienman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One of the reasons the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and brought the US into the war was because they were running low on oil. If they had access to more oil they would have been a much greater threat, though I suspect the atomic bomb would have been dropped in much greater numbers if they had a greater showing of force that what they could muster with their resources.

    -Adam