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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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that a manned moon mission might endanger their ability to make cheap toys with slave labor for America.
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
It's much cheaper to fake it.
(Is there such thing as a -5 Troll? I want to find out!)
perhaps our country should consider doing the exact same thing.
did you not read at all what the parent said? or maybe stop after the first paragraph? Let me help you..
Yeah, you could say something similar to the US and NASA, but it's insulting to the chineese people to compare their situation with even the poorest in this country.
Before you get all up-ity about what a comment says, you should try READING it first. The parent CONCEDED that there were poor people in the US, but made the point that it doesn't compare to the poverty levels China. If you wanted to refute something, you should have started with this. Personally, I agree with the original comment.
what about China?
Drill baby drill - on Mars
Are you American, by any chance? It seems to me that I only see Americans making idiotic comments like this, and I'm always embarrassed to be one when I see something like this post. Pick up a clue next time.
Mod down posts with a "Free Mac Mini/iPod" sig, they're spam!
You are just plain wrong, but I see it got modded up by the NASA haters.
The grounding of US Shuttle flights is a regulatory and safety issue, not a technical one. I would never slight the Russians on the skill and dedication they show in our partnership... but you are just being silly. You think NASA would memorialize the Columbia crew by letting the Station de-orbit? Please.
The ISS would not have "plummeted to the earth" without Progress/Soyuz launches. Good grief, we can boost it with Atlas rockets if it came to that.
Again, we can save Hubble, we choose not to. That's a regulatory and safety issue, not a technical one. Don't like it, write Congress.
You are a troll, and you added nothing insightful to the conversation.
Or maybe they just now heard of the Van Allen Radiation Belt, and the fact that it would be expensive as HELL to build a manned craft to penetrate it! Of course they also are just relizing that the US never went to the moon, (Russia already knew this back in the day).
:-P
No one is going to leave this god forsaken rock untill we can blast enough lead shielding in orbit to cover a spacecraft, we can't do it know, we deffiently didnt do it in the 60's