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[mithridates]

Good. Well, maybe. Space really should be done by private companies and maybe people will still miss that even if tension from a new space race brings things up to speed a little.

Good = competition is good. I've been impressed with the series of successes in the Mars program, the rovers are absolutely amazing, Cassini is perfect, New Horizons is heading to Pluto and the Dawn mission just got reinstated. A little pressure can only make things better.

The article's a bit long so I'll put certain parts in bold that should be paid attention to.

[Bulsajo]

It's a great day for Brazil.

[Pligganease]

The moon is the 52nd state, and if China invades it we should attack them...

[AbbeFaria]

OOoo, we're Chinese, we're going to get to the moon 60+ years after the Americans, fear us, see our might and tremble. Pfft. Since our flag is still there, doesn't that make it ours (the US)? What exactly are the rules for that sort of thing? We're the only ones who've ever been there. We give away all the technology and findings we make in space, I think that would entitle us to something. We should be selling that crap. And, I still want to know the results of the rumored zero-G sex. It's one of those things that NASA doesn't talk about, but you know they tried it. Spill it. Zero-G porn, it'll be the next big thing.

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[gypsyfish]

[Kuros]

[rapier]

NASA were so desperate to attract funding ,that they announced that they had almost discovered life on mars and maybe water.

[Benbby]

What is the 51st state. Canada, Israel some say. Although lately, the way the US kowtows to Israel the US seems like a colony of Israel.

Space is too dangerous, expensive and huge for a space race beyond a decade or two. How far can one country get? We have to work out our political problems on earth first. Although space tourism might cause a change.

When Richard Branson of Virgin Airways/Galactic said he would have flights in about three years costing $250,000, other firms have said they will have the same 15 minute flights for $100,000. Deflation already! I love space hype.

Holidays on the moon in fifteen years. Space hotels in ten.

[Gopher]

We're making a mountain out of a moehill and forgetting that Delay had his own reasons for feeding such a last-ditch, dramatic story last week.

In any case, "the Space Race" occurred in the 1960s when the Soviets and the Americans competed for "control" of the skies in the Cold War.

There has been no race for decades -- disinterest has mostly been the order of the day around the world.

Should the Chinese or anyone else for that matter begin attempting nationalistic, strategic gain via space means, the U.S. would probably engage "the race" again, likely with similar results -- that is, dominance. OP may be focused on a temporary condition and focus on other priorities in the U.S. govt and not recognizing the U.S.'s pretty strong permanent capability with respect to space technology.

Don't forget, too, that being such a unitary, monolithic place, China could easily go either way. It has before. In the fifteenth century it shut down its own sea exploration program for internal political reasons and an aversion to the outside world.

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[Gopher]

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