Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing
by XorNot on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:39PM
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And as we all know, successful enterprises are always the ones which do something once and then never again for 61 years. /S
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Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing
by chihuahua on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:40PM
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They did it 5 more times. Are the goalposts moving so that you have to do something 7 times before it counts?
They stopped doing more moon missions in the 70s because people lost interest very quickly and nobody cared anymore.
Re:China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 Lunar Landing
by XorNot on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:45PM
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No I'm poking fun at the defensive reflex of Americans to get very upset at the notion anyone else will go to the moon. Because in context, who will get their first is the relevant question again because no one has the capability anymore.
It was perfectly clear in context that the OP was talking about the new space race where the question is which modern superpower will get there first. It's just hilarious that so many Americans immediately begin talking about how really they got their truly first, in an effort to pretend they couldn't understand and change the question to one which doesn't hurt their ego.
The America which landed on the moon in the 1960s is dead and buried. And the America which said it's going to land on the moon again hasn't done it yet and it's not clear that it can.