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Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by CamperBob2 on Friday September 16, 2016 @01:58AM (#12512139)
The Chinese political landscape is entirely different from that of the US. In particular, for large scale constructions, the political system is superior. China has already accomplished to date many tasks which the Americans would not, or could not do; many more will happen in the future.

Eh? Speak up, it's hard to hear anything up here on the Moon.

Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by captainmuon on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:04AM (#12512361)
I'm not sure we'd be able to send another Apollo mission nowadays to get you back from the moon, though.

I used to work at Fermilab, the largest US particle physics laboratory. There was this ridiculous thing that mid-year, our funding would run dry (because congress decided after the fact to cut our funding, or because there was no budget to begin with) and we would be sent on furlough (mandatory unpaid leave). Thank god I was paid by an external institute.

Now I work for IHEP, the institute which is behind the CEPC (though I'm not working on that project). I share the opinion that it is currently much more likely for such a large project to succeed in China than in the US (which surprized me a bit in the beginning). It's the difference between being able to plan a few years in advance, vs. not having a budget for more than the next six months.

Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by vilhelm_s on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:30AM (#12513259)
List of countries who have landed on the moon in the last 40 years: China.
Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by Maken on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:14AM (#12514118)
In the last 40 years?: China, USSR.
Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by vilhelm_s on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:22AM (#12514172)
I was working off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon , which says the last Soviet moon landing was 40 years and a month ago.
Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by sperglord on Friday September 16, 2016 @12:50PM (#12515326)
I don't understand. There are plenty of probes from other countries listed in that article.
Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by antientropic on Friday September 16, 2016 @01:20PM (#12515603)
Those were all orbiters (plus two impactors).
Re:The Circular Electron Positron Collider by CamperBob2 on Saturday September 17, 2016 @05:09PM (#12522463)
Big difference between tire tracks and footprints.