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Watching China set 8% of its budget on fire to militarize the moon sounds like a US war planner's wet dream. What are they going to do? Stage nuclear-tipped ro

by avar 3y ago

Watching China set 8% of its budget on fire to militarize the moon sounds like a US war planner's wet dream. What are they going to do? Stage nuclear-tipped rockets there that you could wait until the next business day to respond to?

dotnet00 3y ago
They could setup the infrastructure to defend a claim to the valuable areas of the Moon, eg the permanently shadowed craters with easily accessible water ice.
- avar 3y ago
  The US could always tunnel into those areas later, unless the Chinese are also allowed to develop a mineshaft-gap.