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Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-of-these-days-Alisa dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Having established its presence in the Crimean Peninsula, Russia is now shooting for a bit loftier goal, a permanent Moon base. 'As reported by the Voice of Russia, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin told the government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta that establishing a permanent Moon base has become one of the country's top space priorities. "The moon is not an intermediate point in the [space] race, it is a separate, even a self-contained goal," Rogozin reportedly said. "It would hardly be rational to make some ten or twenty flights to the moon, and then wind it all up and fly to the Mars or some asteroids."'"

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  1. Fine.. by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...just don't let them put nuclear waste up there. You don't want it to rip itself out of orbit.

    1. Re:Fine.. by Platinumrat · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's ok, we're already 15 years too late for that to happen.

    2. Re:Fine.. by stox · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's what we said about 1984.

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    3. Re:Fine.. by khelms · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, darnit. Except for Obama being elected in 2008, we would have had a base on the moon in 1999!

    4. Re:Fine.. by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'm waiting to blame Obama's successor for the lack of a 1999 moonbase.

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  2. So.. by Hsien-Ko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Battlezone?

  3. First infiltrate with masked astronauts by Steve1952 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is plan: 1: First infiltrate with masked astronauts without insignia. 2: Build government offices, and seize them. 3: Have popular vote 4: Profit!

  4. Sensationalism by quantaman · · Score: 4, Funny

    Russia doesn't want to establish a moon base, but they're obligated to step up and protect all the Russian speakers on the moon. Moreover the moon is historically Russian, not only did a recent referendum establish that 98.3% of the moon wants to join Russia, but the moon is so close that on a clear night you can actually see it from Moscow!!

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  5. Re:The Moon is a Harsh Mistress comes to reality.. by MouseTheLuckyDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unless they were eating rocks.

  6. Re:Talk is cheap by Arker · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's what you get when you let the government get involved.

    We should have never created NASA to start with, we'd be at least 50 years ahead with a real (commercial) moonbase by now if we'd just let idiot millionaires shoot for the moon in peace.

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  7. Re:There isn't enough rubles in Moscow by Spad · · Score: 3, Funny

    That explains why the government is always trying to defund them.