Congrats to China!

[A930Rocket]

There goes the neighborhood...,😂

[dewolf]

Lunavirus coming to you soon

[craigster59]

You land on the moon and an hour and a half later you’re hungry for more adventure.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by dewolf

Lunavirus coming to you soon

And they'll call it CDV (Cement Dust Virus) in an attempt to cover their tracks.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by vash

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]

Originally Posted by craigster59

You land on the moon and an hour and a half later you’re hungry for more adventure.

... Onward to Mars

[Bill Douglas]

The moon is a great place. China you'll love it! It's yours! Move there as soon as possible.

[sc_rufctr]

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]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

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]

Yes but we could return fire easily. With zero gravity even minimal loads in the 7mm RemMag would travel a thousand kilometres.

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by dewolf

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.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by stevej37

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]

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.

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by rusnak

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]

[Captain Ahab Jr]

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

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by dewolf

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]

They have one of these, 100 times larger and are aiming it at you

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

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]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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.