China to go to the Moon

[The Parkus Empire]

So this would make them 3rd after North Korea.

North Korea actually have the moon right now so the Chinese astronauts can visit by train on a day trip. I'll be sure to ask them for some nice pictures and souvenirs from the superior North Korean gift shop that is stationed on the burnt remains of the US flag.

North Korea has probably already colonized Alpha Centuri.

[Sremski okrug]

North Korea actually have the moon right now so the Chinese astronauts can visit by train on a day trip. I'll be sure to ask them for some nice pictures and souvenirs from the superior North Korean gift shop that is stationed on the burnt remains of the US flag.

could you even actually burn a flag on the moon

They brought it down to Earth.

[Ganos Lao]

North Korea actually have the moon right now so the Chinese astronauts can visit by train on a day trip. I'll be sure to ask them for some nice pictures and souvenirs from the superior North Korean gift shop that is stationed on the burnt remains of the US flag.

North Korea has probably already colonized Alpha Centuri.

But can they deal with the mind worms?

[Galloism]

could you even actually burn a flag on the moon

With an oxygen supply and a match, why not?

I'm no expert or anything, but I would think with the extremely thin (nearly nonexistent) atmosphere of the moon, as soon as the oxygen left the tank it would spread out so rapidly and so thinly that you really couldn't maintain a fire long enough to burn a flag.

[Imperializt Russia]

That is SO last century!

I seriously fucking hate this mentality.

[Threlizdun]

Great, more people advance our knowledge of the universe and the US is given an incentive to fund NASA again.

[JimSidun]

Maybe this will convince NASA to get back to work.

Well, their funding keeps getting cut by myopic politicians. Not only does NASA provide useful technologies, (and therefore new products for new industries) they contribute to our understanding of the universe... you cannot put a pricetag on such a thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies or check http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/nasacity/index2.htm for an interactive sampling

[Disserbia]

Maybe this will convince NASA to get back to work.

You know, I'm currently receiving tweets from a rover NASA sent to fucking Mars...

Kinky.

China to the Moon. It's on now.

[Phocidaea]

Damn it, NASA! We're still richer than they are, money isn't an excuse!

I actually love the idea of China doing more space stuff, because hopefully we'll get another space race, and, consequently, NASA getting off their butts.

[Todlichebujoku]

Helium-3. Then Daybreak.

[Threlizdun]

Damn it, NASA! We're still richer than they are, money isn't an excuse!

I actually love the idea of China doing more space stuff, because hopefully we'll get another space race, and, consequently, NASA getting off their butts.

Even if NASA weren't to do anything, we should still look at China going to moon as definitely being a good thing. The advancement of science is a great thing regardless of who is doing it.

[Scholencia]

What about when America helped spread "freedom and democracy" to Chile in 1973?

Or in Indonesia in 1965?
Or Iran in 1941?
Or Guatemala in 1954?
Or Honduras in 2009?


Brazil 1964, Syria 1949, Greece 1949, Cuba 1952, British Guyana 1953, South Vietnam 1955, Haiti 1957, Laos 1958 1959 and 1960, South Korea 1960, Ecuador 1960, Dominican Republic 1963, South Vietnam 1963, Guatemala 1963, Ecuador 1963, Bolivia 1964, Zaire 1965, Ghana 1966, Greece 1967, Cambodia 1970, Bolivia 1970, El Salvador 1972, Australia 1975, South Korea 1979, Liberia 1980, Chad 1982, Grenada 1983, Fiji 1987, Venezuela 2002, and Haiti 2004.

What happened in Australia?

[Blasveck]

Damn it, NASA! We're still richer than they are, money isn't an excuse!

I actually love the idea of China doing more space stuff, because hopefully we'll get another space race, and, consequently, NASA getting off their butts.

NASA doesn't need to get off their butts.

They need funding.

[Slafstopia]

That is SO last century!

I seriously fucking hate this mentality.

It's the NASA mentality.

[Imperializt Russia]

I seriously fucking hate this mentality.

It's the NASA mentality.

No, it's the American mentality.
If NASA were to say "yeah, we're doing another moon mission" people would just be like "what a waste, you did that forty years ago, do something new, stop wasting our money, waaaahh".

[Todlichebujoku]

It's the NASA mentality.

No, it's the American mentality.
If NASA were to say "yeah, we're doing another moon mission" people would just be like "what a waste, you did that forty years ago, do something new, stop wasting our money, waaaahh".

We should do a Venus mission.

[Phocidaea]

Damn it, NASA! We're still richer than they are, money isn't an excuse!

I actually love the idea of China doing more space stuff, because hopefully we'll get another space race, and, consequently, NASA getting off their butts.

NASA doesn't need to get off their butts.

They need funding.

Yes, they do need funding, but that would also be spurred by China reigniting the space race, since Congress would have another opportunity to "stick it to the commies".

Besides, it's not like NASA can't afford to do anything. They have the resources for a manned lunar mission (although it would take a few years at best). They just spend those resources on scientifically useful but decidedly unglamorous things like solar-radiation measuring and space-telescoping and so on instead.

[Slafstopia]

It's the NASA mentality.

No, it's the American mentality.
If NASA were to say "yeah, we're doing another moon mission" people would just be like "what a waste, you did that forty years ago, do something new, stop wasting our money, waaaahh".

And do you think there's anything wrong with not going to the moon, and instead going to Mars and working on space stations?

[Lemanrussland]

Hopefully this spurs more government investment in scientific research and space exploration.

Can't let those dirty commies beat us in anything, can we?

[Lillitania]

Hopefully this spurs more government investment in scientific research and space exploration.

Can't let those dirty commies beat us in anything, can we?

Heaven forbid those commies get their hands on the red planet.

[Rurmastadt]

Glad to see that they are almost capable of doing something the US did almost half a century ago.

Besides in this era of rapidly improving robotics the argument for manned space travel is rapidly being reduced to "because its cool". In the future that might change, but for now sending people into space for the sake of exploration is simply a waste of resources.

[Imperializt Russia]

No, it's the American mentality.
If NASA were to say "yeah, we're doing another moon mission" people would just be like "what a waste, you did that forty years ago, do something new, stop wasting our money, waaaahh".

And do you think there's anything wrong with not going to the moon, and instead going to Mars and working on space stations?

The moon is achievable and there's shit still to do there. Like, investigating the feasibility of mining Helium-3 and whatever other resources may lie within. Plus, the moon, responsible for much of our weather, could always do with more study.

The complexities of a manned Mars mission are too long to list.

[Phocidaea]

Hopefully this spurs more government investment in scientific research and space exploration.

Can't let those dirty commies beat us in anything, can we?

Heaven forbid those commies get their hands on the red planet.

Don't worry, it'll be the capitalists (literally, as in private ventures), not the commies, who'll reach Mars first. At this rate some of the more enterprising firms will have boots on Olympus Mons by the time NASA even has a capable spacecraft in the testing phase.

[Genivaria]

Nothing spurs technology like some healthy competition.

[Las Palmeras]

Because they feature people who aren't exactly like him doing things that he isn't.

As funny as your post is, I want him to tell me why they're disturbing. I mean, seriously? They're like the cutest goddamn pictures ever.

The most recent one and the one with the pets are...