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South Korea Plans Moon Landing By 2020 (examiner.com)
MarkWhittington writes: The Korean Herald has reported that the South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning has started a lunar exploration program, allocating funding to place a probe in orbit around the moon and a small lander and rover on the surface of the moon by 2020. The United States and the government of South Korea have also made a space cooperation agreement, fueling speculation that NASA will participate in the South Korean moon shot.
Capitalist lackeys in South Korea behind victorious North Korea in moon landings!
South Korea's only rocket is basically a baby version of the Russian Angara. Everyone has cooperation agreements with everyone else. They aren't worth the paper they are printed on. The S.Koreans have actually money invested in Angara.
They are just trying to play catch up with North Korea who has landed on the moon unlike the fake movie set American landing. Kim Jong himself used a shovel and no space suit to get soil samples and bring them back. He also built a thriving space hotel on the surface of the moon, but the imperialist Western media suppresses the pictures.
Is this only because of North Korea's rocket test?
how much of a SK will be left after the north goes out with there big bang?
With so many countries having space ambitions why won't they pool the money for common good? US, Russia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Canada, EU, and etc. are enough for a mars mission or two. Instead we are left with each country replicating research that's already been solved.
Landed on moon in 1968!!!
it would really be interesting if private companies from japan , korea, china, taiwan, etc, etc, enter space.
if there is real money to be made in space, they would leave much hyped private 'space' companies in usa in the dust, same way they left most western industries in the dust.
but i don't think they wont, because there isn't any real money in it, just government subsidies.
South Korea planning to develop ICBM technology in response to the North.
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Possibly they just want to have a foothold there before China sends up a dredge and claims that the Moon has always been part of Chinese territory?
They're planning to go to the moon by 2020. We're planning to build a permanant manned moon base by 2020.
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Why would South Korea need to colonize the Moon?, Reverend Sun Myung Moon has already already colonized the USA (and one of the reasons that Louis Ferrakhan and G.W. Bush are 2 bacon-spaces apart).
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The more countries that start space programs, the less likely a human will again set foot on the moon.
because the moon is nothing compared to the sun, just as South Korea is nothing compared to Best Korea.
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It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have fallen so quickly and so hard for a fraudulent fabrication of such laughable proportions. The very idea that a gigantic ball of rock happens to orbit our planet, showing itself in neat, four-week cycles -- with the same side facing us all the time -- is ludicrous. Furthermore, it is an insult to common sense and a damnable affront to intellectual honesty and integrity. That people actually believe it is evidence that the liberals have wrested the last vestiges of control of our public school system from decent, God-fearing Americans (as if any further evidence was needed! Daddy's Roommate? God Almighty!)
Documentaries such as Enemy of the State have accurately portrayed the elaborate, byzantine network of surveillance satellites that the liberals have sent into space to spy on law-abiding Americans. Equipped with technology developed by Handgun Control, Inc., these satellites have the ability to detect firearms from hundreds of kilometers up. That's right, neighbors .. the next time you're out in the backyard exercising your Second Amendment rights, the liberals will see it! These satellites are sensitive enough to tell the difference between a Colt .45 and a .38 Special! And when they detect you with a firearm, their computers cross-reference the address to figure out your name, and then an enormous database housed at Berkeley is updated with information about you.
Of course, this all works fine during the day, but what about at night? Even the liberals can't control the rotation of the Earth to prevent nightfall from setting in (only Joshua was able to ask for that particular favor!) That's where the "moon" comes in. Powered by nuclear reactors, the "moon" is nothing more than an enormous balloon, emitting trillions of candlepower of gun-revealing light. Piloted by key members of the liberal community, the "moon" is strategically moved across the country, pointing out those who dare to make use of their God-given rights at night!
Yes, I know this probably sounds paranoid and preposterous, but consider this. Despite what the revisionist historians tell you, there is no mention of the "moon" anywhere in literature or historical documents -- anywhere -- before 1950. That is when it was initially launched. When President Josef Kennedy, at the State of the Union address, proclaimed "We choose to go to the moon", he may as well have said "We choose to go to the weather balloon." The subsequent faking of a "moon" landing on national TV was the first step in a long history of the erosion of our constitutional rights by leftists in this country. No longer can we hide from our government when the sun goes down.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
In true South Korean style, it'll be basically copying someone else's moon landing, but plastered with tasteless ads from Samsung or LG.
Korean here.
"After joining the global space club with a successful launch of a satellite into orbit in 2013"
Nonsense. Korea didn't launch any satellites into orbit. In the case of the 2013 launch, Korea asked Russia to do the launch. Korea claims to have at least designed the satellite on its own, which seems plausible from the fact that the satellite stopped working shortly after a year or so.
"the Korean government also plans to sign an agreement with U.S.’ NASA for technological cooperation."
You can read the above as "Korea will spend the money, NASA will perform and own the technology"
This has nothing to do with North Korea. It's got everything to do with South Koreans doing what they do best, which is sucking up to the west.
Yes, there is no outer space, no satellite, no moon landing, ...
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That you can make a moon landing implies you have the capability of creating a rocket that can accurately leave the atmosphere, return through the atmosphere, and hit the rough vicinity of a designated target. That's also what nuclear-tipped ICBMs have to do. But of course, other countries on this planet that might see themselves targets of yours might plausibly paint you as a horrible warmonger if you just announce that you now have the capability of launching nuclear ICBMs at them. But nobody can complain about a "moon landing". That's noble!
This is why "moon landing" has always been geopolitical code for "ICBM capability". Its likely no mistake South Korea is announcing this now, while North Korean has been a particularly unstable pest recently.
The Artists rendition is an obvious fake, everybody knows you cannot see stars in the sky of the moon.
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...that this is actually being funded by one of the top K-Pop factory producers?
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a BigBang / 4Minute collabo shot on-location at Mare Crisium...or Girls' Generation / EXO...or Super Junior / Red Velvet *fades off into kpop-induced daydreams*
It's true, tho. Once you k-pop, you just...can't...stop...which is why this is my ringtone...and this is my alarm clock...etc, etc, etc ;-) :-S
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Greetings Korean Commander
Your mission is to take a force of Marines and Siege Tanks to the system body known as "Earth's Moon" to investigate a suspected Zerg presence.
The bunkers of your battlecruiser have been filled with supplies of Vespene and Minerals, however you should plan on expanding your base promptly.
Annihilate any persons or beings met who do not follow proper Confucian values.