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GAH, why does Hacker News cut off replies at certain points? This is a response to the child of this post talking about Chinese moon missions: My thoughts wil
by DannoHung 17y ago
GAH, why does Hacker News cut off replies at certain points?
This is a response to the child of this post talking about Chinese moon missions:
My thoughts will entirely depend on just what space development we have done in the intervening years. If some company is beginning an asteroid surveying mission or there is an orbital construction platform, I'm not going to give two damns about what the Chinese are doing with flags. Good for them!
If we are going to spend money on space we should stop thinking in terms of spectacle.
- sailormoon 17y agoHere's a trick: if you click the direct link to the post, you can reply there without any cutoffs :D And hey, I agree. If Team USA is building orbital platforms and doing asteroid surveys by then, then I will be utterly delighted. If, however, because of our lack of long-term vision and misplaced priorities, the space exploration arena comes to be utterly dominated by India, Russia, China, the EU and Japan, then I think I will be justified in lamenting the failings of leadership in my own country I perceive today. Well, I'm not even American actually (though I have family who are), but y'know, I feel a sort of inter-westerner kinship ...