China Reaches the Moon

Off Topic Politics & World Issues
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[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Happened last week, I’m absolutely shocked nobody here has said anything yet. In my opinion it has vast ramifications for the future.

Discuss. This is a huge development.[/quote]

I’ll repeat what I said on the other thread. Nobody has discussed this because it doesn’t sit well with the “we may have our problems but we’re still number one!!!” delusion that a lot of people are still nursing.

Like it or not, we are becoming irrelevant. We are like a fat, bloated Elvis doing shows in Vegas for coke money in a rhinestone-studded white cape, still believing we are the King, while scoffing at the rising popularity of those funny-looking Limeys from Liverpool. Not realizing that our demise on a toilet seat in the men’s room is just around the corner.

China and India are becoming more relevant. Yes, their cities are crowded and overpopulated and polluted. Yes, their governments are sprawling, Byzantine leviathans rife with corruption. Who does that sound like? Well, it sounds an awful lot like Britain in the 17th century. Right before they colonized two new continents and two old ones, creating the vastest global empire the world has ever known.

While we bicker about filibusters in congress, and go apeshit over Xbox One and Playstation 4, while we keep up with the Kardashians and the other members of the pantheon of shallow reality show personalities, while we argue incessantly over nonsense, the Chinese are continuing what Kennedy stated was our national imperative back in 1961.

The International Space Station is on its last legs. It will not live to see the next decade. The Chinese will build the next permanent orbiting space station, and the first moon base. Probably in collusion with the Russians. Space-X and Virgin Galactic flights might take VIPs to and from these stations, but the heavy construction an investment will be done not by our government, but by the governments of our erstwhile Cold War “enemies”.

I have seen the future, gentlemen. And it has a big sticker on it that says “Made In China”.[/quote]

Maybe. But China has pollution, poverty, over-population, and civil-liberty/freedom problems that could derail it if the masses get sick of it. And in a lot of ways they are hopelessly dependent on the U.S. These problems might be surmountable but they might not. The next 20 years or so will be interesting times, for sure.
[/quote]

China will prevail on their sheer size and numbers. I’m okay with it unless they start snapping up professional sports teams in this country.

Rob[/quote]

Again, maybe. I know I am starting my boy on Mandarin next year as his first-grade foreign language selection.
[/quote]

Here’s a phrase in Mandarin that may come in handy over the next two decades:

Wo jiang nuli wei shiping.

It means “I will work for food.”[/quote]

How do you say, “Stick em up, motherfucker, your money or your life,” in Mandarin? I’ll probably get more use out of that one.

[/quote]

Ju qi shao lai, gun ni mar, ni de qian huo ni de shenghuo![/quote]

That is one phrase I am going to memorize. [/quote]

How do you know he did not put. “I will bend over and you can take my money out of my ass.”

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[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Happened last week, I’m absolutely shocked nobody here has said anything yet. In my opinion it has vast ramifications for the future.

Discuss. This is a huge development.[/quote]

I’ll repeat what I said on the other thread. Nobody has discussed this because it doesn’t sit well with the “we may have our problems but we’re still number one!!!” delusion that a lot of people are still nursing.

Like it or not, we are becoming irrelevant. We are like a fat, bloated Elvis doing shows in Vegas for coke money in a rhinestone-studded white cape, still believing we are the King, while scoffing at the rising popularity of those funny-looking Limeys from Liverpool. Not realizing that our demise on a toilet seat in the men’s room is just around the corner.

China and India are becoming more relevant. Yes, their cities are crowded and overpopulated and polluted. Yes, their governments are sprawling, Byzantine leviathans rife with corruption. Who does that sound like? Well, it sounds an awful lot like Britain in the 17th century. Right before they colonized two new continents and two old ones, creating the vastest global empire the world has ever known.

While we bicker about filibusters in congress, and go apeshit over Xbox One and Playstation 4, while we keep up with the Kardashians and the other members of the pantheon of shallow reality show personalities, while we argue incessantly over nonsense, the Chinese are continuing what Kennedy stated was our national imperative back in 1961.

The International Space Station is on its last legs. It will not live to see the next decade. The Chinese will build the next permanent orbiting space station, and the first moon base. Probably in collusion with the Russians. Space-X and Virgin Galactic flights might take VIPs to and from these stations, but the heavy construction an investment will be done not by our government, but by the governments of our erstwhile Cold War “enemies”.

I have seen the future, gentlemen. And it has a big sticker on it that says “Made In China”.[/quote]

Maybe. But China has pollution, poverty, over-population, and civil-liberty/freedom problems that could derail it if the masses get sick of it. And in a lot of ways they are hopelessly dependent on the U.S. These problems might be surmountable but they might not. The next 20 years or so will be interesting times, for sure.
[/quote]

China will prevail on their sheer size and numbers. I’m okay with it unless they start snapping up professional sports teams in this country.

Rob[/quote]

Again, maybe. I know I am starting my boy on Mandarin next year as his first-grade foreign language selection.
[/quote]

Here’s a phrase in Mandarin that may come in handy over the next two decades:

Wo jiang nuli wei shiping.

It means “I will work for food.”[/quote]

How do you say, “Stick em up, motherfucker, your money or your life,” in Mandarin? I’ll probably get more use out of that one.

[/quote]

Ju qi shao lai, gun ni mar, ni de qian huo ni de shenghuo![/quote]

That is one phrase I am going to memorize. [/quote]

How do you know he did not put. “I will bend over and you can take my money out of my ass.”
[/quote]

Oh, that’s silly. For that you would say wo hui wan yao, ni hui na qian cong wo de gangmen.

Ask Nards. He’ll back me up on this shit.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Aragorn wrote:
Happened last week, I’m absolutely shocked nobody here has said anything yet. In my opinion it has vast ramifications for the future.

Discuss. This is a huge development.[/quote]

I’ll repeat what I said on the other thread. Nobody has discussed this because it doesn’t sit well with the “we may have our problems but we’re still number one!!!” delusion that a lot of people are still nursing.

Like it or not, we are becoming irrelevant. We are like a fat, bloated Elvis doing shows in Vegas for coke money in a rhinestone-studded white cape, still believing we are the King, while scoffing at the rising popularity of those funny-looking Limeys from Liverpool. Not realizing that our demise on a toilet seat in the men’s room is just around the corner.

China and India are becoming more relevant. Yes, their cities are crowded and overpopulated and polluted. Yes, their governments are sprawling, Byzantine leviathans rife with corruption. Who does that sound like? Well, it sounds an awful lot like Britain in the 17th century. Right before they colonized two new continents and two old ones, creating the vastest global empire the world has ever known.

While we bicker about filibusters in congress, and go apeshit over Xbox One and Playstation 4, while we keep up with the Kardashians and the other members of the pantheon of shallow reality show personalities, while we argue incessantly over nonsense, the Chinese are continuing what Kennedy stated was our national imperative back in 1961.

The International Space Station is on its last legs. It will not live to see the next decade. The Chinese will build the next permanent orbiting space station, and the first moon base. Probably in collusion with the Russians. Space-X and Virgin Galactic flights might take VIPs to and from these stations, but the heavy construction an investment will be done not by our government, but by the governments of our erstwhile Cold War “enemies”.

I have seen the future, gentlemen. And it has a big sticker on it that says “Made In China”.[/quote]

Maybe. But China has pollution, poverty, over-population, and civil-liberty/freedom problems that could derail it if the masses get sick of it. And in a lot of ways they are hopelessly dependent on the U.S. These problems might be surmountable but they might not. The next 20 years or so will be interesting times, for sure.
[/quote]

China will prevail on their sheer size and numbers. I’m okay with it unless they start snapping up professional sports teams in this country.

Rob[/quote]

Again, maybe. I know I am starting my boy on Mandarin next year as his first-grade foreign language selection.
[/quote]

Here’s a phrase in Mandarin that may come in handy over the next two decades:

Wo jiang nuli wei shiping.

It means “I will work for food.”[/quote]

How do you say, “Stick em up, motherfucker, your money or your life,” in Mandarin? I’ll probably get more use out of that one.

[/quote]

Ju qi shao lai, gun ni mar, ni de qian huo ni de shenghuo![/quote]

That is one phrase I am going to memorize. [/quote]

How do you know he did not put. “I will bend over and you can take my money out of my ass.”
[/quote]

Oh, that’s silly. For that you would say wo hui wan yao, ni hui na qian cong wo de gangmen.

Ask Nards. He’ll back me up on this shit. [/quote]

So who has been hanging out with gangmen?

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[quote]dmaddox wrote:

So who has been hanging out with gangmen?[/quote]

The word for “anus” in Mandarin is gang.

Gang men is literally “gate of the anus” or, more colloquially, “asshole”.

The word for “anal sex” is gang jiao.

And the word in every language for “stupid song by South Korean asshole” is Gangnam Style.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]dmaddox wrote:

So who has been hanging out with gangmen?[/quote]

The word for “anus” in Mandarin is gang.

Gang men is literally “gate of the anus” or, more colloquially, “asshole”.

The word for “anal sex” is gang jiao.

And the word in every language for “stupid song by South Korean asshole” is Gangnam Style.[/quote]

Let’s get that stuff in character so it is actually readable :slight_smile:

Where did you learn Chinese? I have been studying for the last 4 years and my bro and his wife just got back from Taiwan a week ago.

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Perhaps I should drop German and register for Mandarin…

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Japan has creative plans for the Moon as well, We don’t, we just collected some
rocks long ago and stuck a Flag up there the Chinese just may take down one day.

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[quote]Karado wrote:

Japan has creative plans for the Moon as well, We don’t, we just collected some
rocks long ago and stuck a Flag up there the Chinese just may take down one day.

[/quote]

I can see China not only taking down the flag, but also dismantling the Apollo 11 landing module, erasing Aldrin and Armstrong’s footprints, and broadcasting a worldwide announcement that they found no evidence of any landing: the Americans were lying all this time.

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They are also a Country that will disclose possible Alien Artifacts there
The Apollo Missions tried to hide…'not likely alien shit there, but who knows.
The U.S. was there anyway, I had doubts long ago myself, but changed my
mind about it later…It WOULD have been much more difficult to fake it.
One of the best vids on it BTW…Brilliant Observations.

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[quote]Karado wrote:
They are also a Country that will disclose possible Alien Artifacts there
The Apollo Missions tried to hide…'not likely alien shit there, but who knows.
The U.S. was there anyway, I had doubts long ago myself, but changed my
mind about it later…It WOULD have been much more difficult to fake it.
One of the best vids on it BTW…Brilliant Observations.

[/quote]

I saw that video. Agreed. Brilliant.

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[quote]Aragorn wrote:

[quote]beachguy498 wrote:

China will prevail on their sheer size and numbers. I’m okay with it unless they start snapping up professional sports teams in this country.

Rob[/quote]

I am not ok with it, because their success directly threatens our supremacy. They are playing for top dog.[/quote]

This is what we get with weak-assed leadership, thanks again to Obama.

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I’m still having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal. Aren’t we sending probes well beyond the moon? Also, aside from bragging rights what did landing on the moon gain us? The journey to the moon landing of course created new technology among other things, but what did “one small step…” do for us?

I mean we’re kinda over the moon aren’t we:

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]Karado wrote:
They are also a Country that will disclose possible Alien Artifacts there
The Apollo Missions tried to hide…'not likely alien shit there, but who knows.
The U.S. was there anyway, I had doubts long ago myself, but changed my
mind about it later…It WOULD have been much more difficult to fake it.
One of the best vids on it BTW…Brilliant Observations.

[/quote]

I saw that video. Agreed. Brilliant. [/quote]

That was beautiful.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’m still having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal. Aren’t we sending probes well beyond the moon? Also, aside from bragging rights what did landing on the moon gain us? The journey to the moon landing of course created new technology among other things, but what did “one small step…” do for us?

I mean we’re kinda over the moon aren’t we:

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IMO, long-term species survival requires finding a way to leave the planet and live somewhere else. This rock is way to small for a species like ours to live long term.

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[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’m still having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal. Aren’t we sending probes well beyond the moon? Also, aside from bragging rights what did landing on the moon gain us? The journey to the moon landing of course created new technology among other things, but what did “one small step…” do for us?

I mean we’re kinda over the moon aren’t we:

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IMO, long-term species survival requires finding a way to leave the planet and live somewhere else. This rock is way to small for a species like ours to live long term. [/quote]

I agree. The moon isn’t exactly going to cut it though…

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]jjackkrash wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’m still having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal. Aren’t we sending probes well beyond the moon? Also, aside from bragging rights what did landing on the moon gain us? The journey to the moon landing of course created new technology among other things, but what did “one small step…” do for us?

I mean we’re kinda over the moon aren’t we:

[/quote]

IMO, long-term species survival requires finding a way to leave the planet and live somewhere else. This rock is way to small for a species like ours to live long term. [/quote]

I agree. The moon isn’t exactly going to cut it though…[/quote]

Baby steps.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:
I’m still having a hard time understanding why this is such a big deal. Aren’t we sending probes well beyond the moon? Also, aside from bragging rights what did landing on the moon gain us? The journey to the moon landing of course created new technology among other things, but what did “one small step…” do for us?

I mean we’re kinda over the moon aren’t we:

[/quote]

What was your MOS in the UMSC, exactly? Space is the final theater of warfare, and vast military advantages will be bestowed on those that can establish space superiority.