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A930Rocket 12-03-2020 07:46 PM
There goes the neighborhood...,😂

dewolf 12-03-2020 07:56 PM
Lunavirus coming to you soon

craigster59 12-03-2020 08:00 PM
You land on the moon and an hour and a half later you’re hungry for more adventure.

sc_rufctr 12-03-2020 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by dewolf (Post 11127988)
Lunavirus coming to you soon
And they'll call it CDV (Cement Dust Virus) in an attempt to cover their tracks.

GH85Carrera 12-03-2020 08:19 PM
Congrats to China!
 
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Originally Posted by vash (Post 11127630)
there goes that "only one country has been to the moon, and the rest use the metric system" joke. faaach.

Nope, only Americans have sent humans to the moon and brought them home safely. Sending a robot is easier. No life support systems needed.

The Russians sent robots to the moon in the 1960s and 70s.

sc_rufctr 12-03-2020 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by craigster59 (Post 11127997)
You land on the moon and an hour and a half later you’re hungry for more adventure.
... Onward to Mars :D

Bill Douglas 12-03-2020 08:27 PM
The moon is a great place. China you'll love it! It's yours! Move there as soon as possible.

sc_rufctr 12-03-2020 08:38 PM
Thing is... Space is the perfect environment for the manufacture of ball bearings.

You would be able to produce near perfect ball bearings in zero G so they'd last almost forever.
(both balls and races)

dewolf 12-03-2020 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr (Post 11128028)
Thing is... Space is the perfect environment for the manufacture of ball bearings.

You would be able to produce near perfect ball bearings in zero G so they'd last almost forever.
(both balls and races)
The moon is also a perfect place to launch small missiles at satellites. If your company owns a satellite or two and they don't like what you're saying, retract, or your satellites are gone. You could take out world comms in no short order.

Bill Douglas 12-03-2020 10:32 PM
Yes but we could return fire easily. With zero gravity even minimal loads in the 7mm RemMag would travel a thousand kilometres.

sc_rufctr 12-03-2020 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by dewolf (Post 11128116)
The moon is also a perfect place to launch small missiles at satellites. If your company owns a satellite or two and they don't like what you're saying, retract, or your satellites are gone. You could take out world comms in no short order.
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red-beard 12-04-2020 04:25 AM
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Originally Posted by stevej37 (Post 11127553)
Lunar rocks will be 'dirt cheap' soon.

I want to be the first on my block with 'lunar rock landscaping'!
Yeah, but it will 90% likely be fake

Fast Freddy 944 12-04-2020 08:08 AM
That landing scene looks kinda famaliar. The landing strut and its shadow cast on the moon's surface looks like a clip from our LEM back in 69? LOL! CMON MAN! I ain't buying it.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/roker.gifhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/suppo...leys/roker.gif

RWebb 12-04-2020 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by rusnak (Post 11127734)
They can afford to go to the Moon. They are not spending their treasury on bail outs.
well, they subsidize their industry a lot more than we do...

stevej37 12-04-2020 12:51 PM
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Captain Ahab Jr 12-04-2020 02:51 PM
Very strange, my old Toyota 4x4 mileage is only 5k miles away from the moon and I don't recall being over taken by anything Chinese :confused:

svandamme 12-04-2020 03:26 PM
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Originally Posted by dewolf (Post 11128116)
The moon is also a perfect place to launch small missiles at satellites. If your company owns a satellite or two and they don't like what you're saying, retract, or your satellites are gone. You could take out world comms in no short order.
I would think the moon is a wee bit far to launch at earth satellites.
energy to bring it to the moon
orbit it
land it

then launch, de orbit, and get back to earth..

1+1 does not equal 22

It would be WAY more effective to put a couple of High orbiting stations for that purpose..

The Synergizer 12-04-2020 03:32 PM
They have one of these, 100 times larger and are aiming it at you

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GH85Carrera 12-04-2020 04:40 PM
Congrats to China!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sc_rufctr (Post 11128028)
Thing is... Space is the perfect environment for the manufacture of ball bearings.

You would be able to produce near perfect ball bearings in zero G so they'd last almost forever.
(both balls and races)

But they will cost $100,000 per ball. And a race will cost the same.

sc_rufctr 12-04-2020 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera (Post 11129008)
But they will cost $100,000 per ball. And a race will cost the same.
Initially true but just like anything else... Economies of scale will kick in at some point.


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