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Japan Moon Probe Snaps First Photos
mrcgran writes "Space.com reports, "Almost one month after Japan's successful launch of the Kaguya lunar probe, the unmanned observatory has begun its first major activities in orbit around the moon. In addition to snapping its first lunar images, the probe jettisoned one of two 110-pound (50-kilogram) "baby" satellites that will help create a detailed gravity map of the moon." The major objectives of the "KAGUYA" mission are to obtain scientific data of the lunar origin and evolution and to develop the technology for the future lunar exploration. "KAGUYA" consists of a main orbiting satellite at about 100km altitude and two small satellites (Relay Satellite and VRAD Satellite) in polar orbit."
For a well measured and written comment, that certainly harbours alot of fear and mistrust. Do you have a basis for those fears or are they more of a phobia? Im wondering because when a country is destroyed and then left to moulder I can see why it would harbour resentment, but I was under the impression the US helped with Japan's rebuilding efforts.
And that is the key. Defeated enemies tend to become the strongest allies when you take the time to stick around and rebuild the country so that it is nicer than it was when you first showed up. Japan is an ally because we were allowed to finish the job and did not "cut and run". Hell, we are still there!
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Don't even start using that as an excuse to stay inside of Iraq. What are we accomplishing? Maybe we should drop nukes on Iraq as well? I'm sure that would overall increase our reputation. That way instead of not only creating more hostility between America and the Middle Eastern Nations, or even simply creating a general anger towards America's ignorance and atrociousness, we would be showing off to the whole world that indeed, America is just as evil an empire as all the Radical Muslims are attempting to fight against.
Maybe then you'll have given the whole war to these Radicals. This war needs to be fought person by person. Through Discussions between people, and by understanding the "enemy" to the point of reasoning with them.
Back to Japan though, I wonder how much of the "peaceful relations" that we have with them aren't so much because we helped rebuild (we had better help rebuild...after blowing a big crater in a densely populated area) but because we are the current world power. I'm sure most countries just "play along" with all the things we do simply so that they don't get lost in the shuffle.
umm i hate to rain on your parade there kiddo but china and japan hate each other. there's a few centuries of mistrust and ill will between them - they love america far far more.
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Is there also an air of nerdy excitement about this new-sorta "Space Race II" (new character... Asia!) in the rest of you guys too?
There already is.
Why don't people think of the soviets?
The one country on earth that desperatly wanted usa to fail.
The one country that had the technology to check if there really was a spaceship flying to the moon.
If there was anything even remotely fishy about the moon landing they would complain to no end.
And still they said nothing. They diden't even *try* to discredit the moon landing.
And that is the key. Defeated enemies tend to become the strongest allies when you take the time to stick around and rebuild the country so that it is nicer than it was when you first showed up. Japan is an ally because we were allowed to finish the job and did not "cut and run".
Oh for crying out loud, the thinly veiled reference to Iraq is ludicrous.
We didn't unilaterally invade Japan. They were at war prior to our involvement with them.
Japan wasn't harboring long term resentment over American oppression and manipulation at the individual level the way many Iraqi's 'hate america'.
Japan wasn't already on the point of a civil war due to multiple mutually hostile internal factions that were barely being contained by the brutal dictator we installed and propped up.
So it was largely the government that was at war with the US, not the 'people'.
So when Japan surrendered after the nuclear weapons attacks, and the government was dissolved and reformed they really did surrender, and the whole country especially the average civilians were pretty unified in their desire to get on with the rebuilding. Iraq has gone a completely different direction; with multiple competing hostile factions that were there all along going at each other with America caught in the middle of it.
Even if the US manages to ultimately succeed, it will be by siding with one of the factions and helping them become dominant and rebuilding with them... this will only alienate the other factions who will just become even more hostile to the US, and they will gather with allies in Afghanistan, Iran, etc.
At -best- its going to be Israel all over again. Sure we have a great ally in the faction we helped dominate and claim and rebuild the space, but at what cost? perpetual war and festering anti-american sentiment from the displaced/neighboring factions.
"to the point of reasoning with them" makes the erroneous assumption that humans (other than a rare few) are consistently capable of reason. On any subject where "belief" is involved (religion, political and economic theory, child-rearing, ...), reason is literally not possible by the believer. You can no more reason with an Islamic fundamentalist or George W. Bush regarding their respective delusions, than a significantly afflicted schizophrenic off his medication, and probably less.
"Peaceful relations" with Japan are a product of the advantages that they perceive and American delusions. When either of those factors changes, then the Japanese would quite willingly return to their Imperial behavior, or the US will go back to the arrogant pre-war behavior that made the war with Japan inevitable.
So they sent up a moon satellite with a B&W camera?
That's pretty dumb... but at least they put a blue filter on it to make it like a movie.
Don't be apathetic. Procrastinate!
What do you mean B&W? It's a satellite for science, not for human comfort. Besides, it's not B&W anyway.
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...to bad the Americans only care about conquest of the middle east and ethnic cleansing of Muslims so their god will be happy.
Well, that and Mars (MER), Jupiter and its moons (New Horizons), Pluto (New Horizons), Saturn (Cassini), the Heliopause (Voyager), and incidentally the Moon (Orion), right?
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