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Russia and China are consistently talked down and pretty much ridiculed as if the USA is God-Like and no one but us could "really mean it" on things like this, for space travel, science or serious R&D.
scotsdavy1
I really wish they had landed close to where the flag is. That would put an end to all the conspiracies about whether man did in fact walk on the moon. There are supposed to be a lot of things left around the site there as well...
Aleister
scotsdavy1
I really wish they had landed close to where the flag is. That would put an end to all the conspiracies about whether man did in fact walk on the moon. There are supposed to be a lot of things left around the site there as well...
Nothing, and I mean nothing, will stop the moon deniers from their appointed rounds. If the flag was photographed (and all the landing sites have been from the air) the deniers would claim that the Chinese rover is on a sound stage in Beijing.
eManym
The moon, no ET there, but to a writer, if you stretch the truth and fabricate lies, it sells books to the gullible.
Beware explicit language.
edit on 14-12-2013 by eManym because: (no reason given)
Wirral Bagpuss
First off it is exciting to see that after 40 years the Human Race has landed on the Moon again, albeit a rover. But my concern is this. According to past research by others, were we warned not to go back to the Moon by ETs living there? If this is the case, as alledged to be, then how will ET react to the rover landing? They surely must know this is a precursor to another manned mission? And just WHY were we warned off the Moon anyway? Surely as the Moon is in our backyard, by right it is something belonging to Human Race. I also think we have a right to land on Mars and mine asteroids. I can however understand ET not wanting to reach out further than that until we change our ways and don't fight each other anymore.
Thoughts anyone? WIll China's landing lead to disclousure of some sort?
AliceBleachWhite
The whole "We were warned" thing is just part of the UFO/Alien Mythology that's grown up around all the charlatanism and snake oil salesmen than have been eagerly gobbled down as gospel by over-willing believers.
The US had several missions to the Moon and if there was indeed such a warning, it'd be expected that only one mission would have ever landed. That's not the case.
There's nothing preventing anyone from visiting the moon at any time by any means except the hurdles of Engineering and Physics as well as the costs involved in managing them.
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
Personally, I think China is most likely to burn the secrets and turn it public. Specifically because we won't. If it won't hurt them any (and they haven't been running black programs they care about hiding for 50+ years) why not release info if they find something big?
eManym
On the surface of the moon the spacesuits would balloon out from the vacuum.
alfa1
eManym
On the surface of the moon the spacesuits would balloon out from the vacuum.
eManym
On the surface of the moon the spacesuits would balloon out from the vacuum.
I understand that you are indicating my statement isn't true. Care to explain?
I think China thinks very big when they get to thinking ambitiously. Why would space be different?
3. Human Spaceflight
China will push forward human spaceflight projects and make new technological breakthroughs, creating a foundation for future human spaceflight.
It will launch the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 spaceships and achieve unmanned or manned rendezvous and docking with the in-orbit Tiangong-1 vehicle.
China will launch space laboratories, manned spaceship and space freighters; make breakthroughs in and master space station key technologies, including astronauts' medium-term stay, regenerative life support and propellant refueling; conduct space applications to a certain extent and make technological preparations for the construction of space stations.
China will conduct studies on the preliminary plan for a human lunar landing.
4. Deep-space Exploration
China carries out deep-space exploration in stages, with limited goals.
Based on the idea of "three steps" orbiting, landing and returning for continuing lunar probe projects, China will launch orbiters for lunar soft landing, roving and surveying to implement the second stage of lunar exploration. In the third stage, China will start to conduct sampling the moon's surface matters and get those samples back to Earth.
China will conduct special project demonstration in deep-space exploration, and push forward its exploration of planets, asteroids and the sun of the solar system.
China will fire a lucky bunch of taikonauts at the Moon after 2017 as a precursor to establishing a base there, although it admitted that there is no timetable as yet for a manned lunar landing.
Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist for China’s lunar orbiter project, told a conference of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World in the northern city of Tianjin that his team needs to find out more about the Moon’s surface before drawing up further plans, according to Xinhua.
dlbott
They want us to believe everything was made of solid lead and not the very light weight aluminum composite that it was truly made of.
None of the astronauts had any signs of radiation sicknesses at all which was not possible. There were many other things that were odd for me.