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Q: Does the idea of the PPC setting up a lunar base scare you?
(Crazy question here.) If you read that in the paper one day, how would you feel?
No, not a crazy question, rather a stupid question. Why would it scare anyone?
yongge has hit the nail on the head. Why would a lunar base scare anyone? satellites with weapons on would be more disturbing. It would be the begining of another race for colonies though. Similar to the rush for Africa. We should see it in our life time. People are already planning it for Mars.
Not at all but if they start building a Death Star, then I'll worry.
It should scare everyone. We all see how Chinese do things. Going to the moon for them is all about mining for minerals. If you screw up the moon , life on Earth will suffer greatly. The relationship between the moon and the Earth is vital for sustaining life. Careless, incompetent people should not go anywhere near the moon.
DrMonkey:
Mineral mined on the moon would be awfully expensive compared to mining minerals in the most hostile Earth locations, included the deep oceans. Everything done on the moon is way wa y more expensive
Englteachted:
If it is rare and usable than it will be worth it. But beyond that, imagine what new substances might be found on the moon.
xinyuren:
The moon used to be part of earth. Theoretically, there's nothing new there. If there were any mining value on the moon, NASA would have suggested this first.
Englteachted:
BS, the moon was never part of the Earth. And NASA is seriously underfunded because they do not use Jesus to teleport them where ever they need to go,
Habitable modules on the Moon, which will requires very expensive resupply trips if they don't update their rocket technology (they didn't...). That would be an awful money sink for little return. Several space agencies made similar announcement since the 80's, without following it.
It could spark a new space race. Which would be great for humanity, Google what advances came from the last space race. I am pretty sure you wouldn't be able to search for information n a pocket device had it not been for the work done in miniaturization. .
If China goes to the moon now, well, I think personally the moon is relatively uninteresting for anything but mining. I think Nasa does have some reports on what could be mined, but not how to make it economically sane to do. Of course in world where China sits on 95% of mineral reserves, maybe the cost becomes irrelevant.
There will be some American conspirators that would think the moon has military value, but they'd be wrong of course.
The moon might be a good steppingstone for Mars missions. Building a settlement there would be step one. If China does so, well, that would suck, be cause one thing learned from the Jade Rabbit was that the Chinese do not share scientific learnings or technological advances. (another thing we learned was the fact that Chinese space missions use names that sounds similar to those on female pleasure devices)
Lunar missions for minerals, would most certainly be done by a country. Lunar missions to further explore space would hopefully be done as joint operations.
There is a good chance that X-Prize participants would get to the moon before China. The current X-Prize is for sending a rover there, driving 500 meters and send back photo evidence (with a bonus for taking snapshots of stuff left on the moon back in the day)
... a Chinese moon base would probably lack atmosphere.
I guess, Moon will be 
fuller when full....Isn't that physical (therapy
) law?
I think we will all be long gone before this ever occurs
Don't be silly, China never landed on the moon, they faked it, just like the Americans did. Where would the Chinese find an astronaut that can land a spacecraft on the moon when there isn't a single Chinese driver that can back a car into a parking space?
China will find an ancient map to show that the moon already belongs to them.
