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China Targets 2018 For Landing Probe On Far Side of Moon (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Despite all the time we've spent studying the moon, nobody has ever deployed a probe to its far side. Now, China has announced that it plans to land a probe there in 2018. The craft they plan to send is similar to the Chang'e-3 probe with its Jade Rabbit rover. They plan to study the geologic conditions on the far side of the moon. "China insists that its space program is for peaceful purposes. However, the U.S. Defense Department has highlighted China's increasing space capabilities, saying it was pursuing activities aimed at preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a crisis. In March, the Chinese government said it would open up its lunar exploration program to companies rather than simply relying on the state-owned sector as before, hoping to boost technological breakthroughs."
You would want to locate it on the far side of the moon so that it could not be easily monitored from Earth. Very suspicious.
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Matter of fact it's all dark.
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Careful of the nazis there.
Isn't that where the monolith lies?
Is that no one knows whether you were successful or not...
wah they want to stop America using the illegal nukes and other shit they have already got in space.
Back in the 60's NASA could get away with faking a landing on this side of the Moon because back then nobody had telescopes good enough to prove otherwise.
they better bring flashlights.
I don't worry about China's space efforts. I worry about those of the U.S. Which nation has invaded countries and been at war for the vast majority of it's history?
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Probe of the dark side of Uranus, looking for Klingons.
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First oh now they are worried about china activities in space maybe they can get some of that military cash sent to NASA We could have a rover parked there in the spot china has picked out before china even gets theirs launched. If anyone cared enough about space or space defense to fund it.
Second China is going to open up their lunar program to private companies? I bet their last rover having all its wheels lock up had something to do with that.
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Who the fuck cares?
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One of the possible interesting things about the moon is the possible prevalence of Helium 3, a rare (on earth) isotope that could make nuclear fusion super-easy. Perhaps it is more common on the far side of the moon?
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The far side is not always dark to sunlight, but it is dark to radio transmissions from Earth. Also "Darkest Peru" in the sense of unexplored wilderness.
Windows Vista was more like the Hubble Space Telescope. Both were launched successfully, usable in reduced functionality mode despite serious flaws, and ultimately repaired in the field. Hubble got a corrective lens, and Windows Vista got Service Pack 1 "Mojave".
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Until his staffers mistakenly DMCA his campaign website off the Internet, like they did with his Wikipedia article.
Thus the U.S. Defense Department begins hyping a mythical Probe Gap, looking for funding for yet another massive military build-up.
Anyone remember the Bomber Gap? How about the Missile Gap? Somewhere around 2000 the military began talking up a "Pearl Harbor in Space", as a way of ginning up funds for space weapons systems.
Look, I understand it's the military's job to look for possible threats. However taking a space exploration probe, pretending it's a weapons system, and then asking for money is an example of a long-standing political gambit in the military. It's the best, most reliable way of getting huge dark pools of funding that don't have to produce much of anything.
And it's the civilian leadership's job to spot the gambit, see it for what it is, and say "we have other priorities too. You get 1/10 of what you asked for and need to be grateful for that much."
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Why are people saying things (not only on slashdot) like "nobody has ever deployed a probe to [the Moon's] far side" Is there a joke I'm not getting?