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>3. We are now in a rare situation when only one nation (the U.S.) is approaching the capability to send ships to the rest of the Solar System. That is a very
by Daho0n 6y ago
>3. We are now in a rare situation when only one nation (the U.S.) is approaching the capability to send ships to the rest of the Solar System.
That is a very Americanized view of how things are. Unless something goes wrong CNSA will land Tianwen-1 on Mars a week before Percy gets there. Your comment is written in a tiny timeframe where the US is actually at or near the front but looking over time this isn't the case.
- tomatotomato37 6y agoThe ship analogy is funny too considering that Columbus discovered America with a Spanish carrack fleet 5 years before Da Gama was able to sail around the cape to India. And speaking of sovereignty & Spanish-Portugal colonization, I wonder what the interstellar version of the Treaty of Tordesillas is gonna look like.