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Japan Plans a Moonbase by 2030

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the then-acknowlege-name-change-to-ix dept.

Aglassis writes "The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced at a conference that they are planning to build a Moonbase by 2030. Since JAXA doesn't currently have a 100 ton-class heavy lift rocket or a human transportation system perhaps now is a good time for JAXA to join in with NASA on the Project Constellation rocket program."

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  1. Re:US moon base by AcidLacedPenguiN · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    because we all know Bush will somehow still be in power in 2020. (I was not being sardonic:)
    Doesn't the American election system stop you at 2 back-to-back terms?

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  2. Re:US moon base by bsartist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Doesn't the American election system stop you at 2 back-to-back terms?
    The legal limit is just 2 terms, back-to-back or not. He can't legally run for president again, ever. Although, he is eligible for other offices. There was a president (I forget who) who served in the senate for many years after his term in the Oval Office was over.
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  3. Re:Moon Union Zapped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahahahaa. HAHAHAHAAHAHAH. omfg eliteor

  4. Re:Relability by Reverend528 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, as we all know, Java is not fault tolerant and should not be used for the aircraft navigation or air traffic control.

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  5. Re:US moon base by srussell · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Didn't Bush reinstate plans to start putting Americans back on the moon shortly after he was elected?

    No, that was his re-election bid, to tempt intellectuals who were sick of the pseudo-science crap coming out of the Whitehouse. Of course, you haven't heard anything about it since he was re-elected, because if God hadda wanted us to be on the moon, he wouldn't have made the homomoseshual anti-Americun baby-killer terrorists.

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  6. Re:JAXA? by ccollao · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Also does Experience (or it was Expert?) in windoze XP... They are just using the "advantage" of the M$ Propaganda....

  7. Re:But are they sending any sailors there? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Last I checked, Sailor Moon was watched by 5 year old girls and Futurama by crotchety 65 year old men on their threadbare chairs while wearing their grungy wifebeater shirt with chest hair sticking out all over the place, beer in one hand, cigar in the other. True geeks watch X-Files.