this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
199 points (98.5% liked)
technology
23473 readers
262 users here now
On the road to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
Spreading Linux propaganda since 2020
- Ways to run Microsoft/Adobe and more on Linux
- The Ultimate FOSS Guide For Android
- Great libre software on Windows
- Hey you, the lib still using Chrome. Read this post!
Rules:
- 1. Obviously abide by the sitewide code of conduct. Bigotry will be met with an immediate ban
- 2. This community is about technology. Offtopic is permitted as long as it is kept in the comment sections
- 3. Although this is not /c/libre, FOSS related posting is tolerated, and even welcome in the case of effort posts
- 4. We believe technology should be liberating. As such, avoid promoting proprietary and/or bourgeois technology
- 5. Explanatory posts to correct the potential mistakes a comrade made in a post of their own are allowed, as long as they remain respectful
- 6. No crypto (Bitcoin, NFT, etc.) speculation, unless it is purely informative and not too cringe
- 7. Absolutely no tech bro shit. If you have a good opinion of Silicon Valley billionaires please manifest yourself so we can ban you.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
China's beating the US at the actual second space race too
proof? I'm not a skeptic, just a lore enthusiast.
Their space station is seriously impressive, and that's just one piece of their space program.
They have a microwave oven on the Tiangong, which is a luxury (in space). On the ISS they use a heating pad to warm their food, because the station doesn't have enough wattage for a microwave.
Lmao they don't have batteries on the ISS?
No Prime shipping. 🫤
Edit (serious): Maybe they have enough capacitors, but not enough amps(?) to go around? Like, not enough solar panels.
IDK I'm bad at electricity and magnetism.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
To add: They have an actual plan on manned landings on the moon within the next 5 years (possibly within 3).
And its really funny to see all "Successes" down the list of these while SpaceSux has a worse record then the average Kerbal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program
"Gamer" musk piloting his rockets manually while a helpless and horrified staff look on...
Musk being given a wireless keyboard without batteries and being TOLD by his staff he is piloting the rocket.
Musk being handed the
while we actually pilot his sub into the Marianas trench
"Here you go little buddy"
Here little bro, this is your controller
China has its own space station, and it's newer and more advanced than the ISS.
The last time the US had an operational space station all of its own was 1979.
Edit: I see nasezero had already mentioned it, heh.
Edit2: Fuuuuuu---I'm about to start up Kerbal Space Program now.
The last time NASA brought samples back from the moon was 1972, China just brought their second batch back last year.
China is cratering the cost of Moon rocks. But at what cost?
Also, China's moon rocks are extra special because they're from the far side, where NASA never brought any rocks from
Ronks.
There are good reasons to think that China will get humans back on the moon before the US despite the claimed agenda of NASA.
The low budget of NASA, the insistence of the US state to use recycled space shuttle techs and factories and the insistence on having private corporations handle critical part of the moon missions, namely the moon lander(s); have put the project in a situation in which the constant shifts from the private contractors and politicians and the general mess that is the project makes NASA unable to come up with an actual, precise plan about how exactly they're actually going to land peoples on the moon in practice, but at the same time they are under pressure from the state and private contractors to present something so they keep giving broad hand-wavy "plans" to pretend they know what they are doing.
Chang'e 6
Chinese flag on Mars first.
China is focusing on developing infrastructure for a permanent and useful presence on the Moon first.