China has completed another impressive robotic mission to the Moon
The mission has significance for the Moon race between China and the United States.
@arstechnica I think we have more important concerns than the 'moon race'.
@caffinepwrd @arstechnica Do you understand the strategic significance of it, if China successfully creates a moon base
@arstechnica I suppose this is only a payload, but otherwise this seems possibly the first unmanned ship/payload launched from the moon to earth. Is it?
@arstechnica I hope nobody sends a human to the moon in my lifetime. It am amuses me to tell someone they are so old somebody walked on the moon in their lifetime. (last human left the moon in 1972)
@arstechnica The concept of a moon race, from that I read in the article, makes me feel like someone would want to claim the moon as their own. At first, it sounded silly to me. Then I realized this is exactly what happened to Earth...
Huge LOL to a race to own the moon. I would just let the moon be: unowned. Next up- who owns Mars!?
@arstechnica Ownership isn't a useful concept until people can actually live there and so need to own something. When it is a a short (couple years in the case of mars) trip and then return home you don't gain anything from ownership.