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05-26-2017, 11:44 PM | #1 | ||||
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May 27th, 2017: China Moon
Big news. China made a soft landing on the Moon and dispatched a robot to explore… in 2013.
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Now when we send people to Mars they can stop for takeout. link
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05-27-2017, 07:10 AM | #2 |
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It's kinda painful to see the US being passed by other countries. I remember when we had a manned spaceflight program. That was cool.
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05-27-2017, 09:10 AM | #3 |
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Passed? They're doing what we did 50 years ago with less computing power than a smartphone.
They're getting higher resolution pictures because of higher technology now but that's just more proof that it's not necessary to send people to get the information. The manned program was exciting but so was flying in it's time. Even the later manned launches didn't draw that much attention from the general public. Now Trump will build a wall more expensive than China's wall.
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05-29-2017, 12:04 PM | #4 |
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I wonder what would cause that rock to become that shape. (Normally, you'd say "... cause that rock to become weathered", but, you know: MOON).
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05-29-2017, 12:12 PM | #5 |
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Perhaps it was formed when the Moon had water then buried in dust only to be unearthed(unmooned) later?
Have to turn it over and see if it says Made in China on the bottom.
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05-29-2017, 02:18 PM | #6 |
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That rock is actually a piece of Beijing smog.
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05-31-2017, 01:56 AM | #7 |
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Why is that, in this case a problem?
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05-31-2017, 07:12 AM | #8 |
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As an American, I'm proud of America's accomplishments in science and technology. We are being passed by other countries not because they are so great but because we have stopped trying so hard.
The pace of innovation used to be a lot faster. That was better for all of us on Earth. |
05-31-2017, 09:35 AM | #9 |
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A quick google tells me the NASA budget is around 20B$ and the Military budget is in the order of 600B$.
If one wanted to make America the envy of the world, seems to me you could double NASA's budget and sneak out of the military budget without anyone going short. but then I'm just a simple scientist/engineer. |
05-31-2017, 10:11 AM | #10 |
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Well, the envy of the world in 10 years, anyway. It's not like there are space probes just sitting on the shelf at Wal-Mart waiting for NASA to pony up the cash. Budget now means impressive stuff in somebody else's election cycle, that's not useful...
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05-31-2017, 12:52 PM | #11 |
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See, here you go again, trying to mix dollars and sense.
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