Poll time!
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Poll time!
Here is a quote from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (see: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/116384128140587012
“If we wake up and we see our rival’s taikonauts on the moon before we’re able to return, the blow to American exceptionalism will be so damaging, the shock wave will be felt around the world.”
If China beat the US to the Moon, how would you feel personally?
@mike_malaska extra funny if China is purposely doing the reverse of USA vs USSR, where USA dealt a great blow to USSR by being the first, where as China basically accelerate the downfall of US empire by getting USA involved in a faux moon race wasting billions recycling old tech while soon to be trillionaire blows up piles of others cash, some of it that of taxpayers, every few months.
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@mike_malaska extra funny if China is purposely doing the reverse of USA vs USSR, where USA dealt a great blow to USSR by being the first, where as China basically accelerate the downfall of US empire by getting USA involved in a faux moon race wasting billions recycling old tech while soon to be trillionaire blows up piles of others cash, some of it that of taxpayers, every few months.
@htpcnz like SDI and the USSR. Intersting.....
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@mike_malaska I can't take that bet and I'll tell you why. After my disbelief at what the American voters did in 2016 and 2024, I clearly have no idea what the Zeitgeist is. So it's really hard to tell if that would be motivation or not. I would hope so, but...
@chgowiz (I prolly should have run this poll on Twitter to check that...)
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@mike_malaska @AkaSci The whole world saw over the last year cuts in science in USA. So I think most of us who live outside understand that China will beat USA to the moon.
I wish ESA would be beat both but ESA is not there yet.
All you need to do is compare the respective mission plans.
China 2030: Send up two of the same rockets, one with a crew module and one with a moon lander. In lunar orbit get in the lander and land on the moon.
USA 2028: Send up SLS/Orion with crew. Send up 15 to 20 Starships to refuel one Starship to go to the moon. Astronauts get in the Starship in lunar orbit and it goes down and lands on the moon.
Which seems more likely to work?
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Poll time!
Here is a quote from NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (see: https://deepspace.social/@mike_malaska/116384128140587012
“If we wake up and we see our rival’s taikonauts on the moon before we’re able to return, the blow to American exceptionalism will be so damaging, the shock wave will be felt around the world.”
If China beat the US to the Moon, how would you feel personally?
@mike_malaska Trump destroyed the Myth of American exceptionalism. Now it's just boorish yahoos.
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