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o you're saying that if, say, 10 years ago, China setup a base on the moon to send humans to for scientific reasons, political reasons, to inspire new generations of exploration, getting closer to a system fo learning to live and work there to help humans explore further in the future etc....that would have done absolutely nothing beneficial for China?

Im just talking about landing on the moon. Yes we benefitted from the investment in the form of spin off tech and some experimental data but it was mostly about national pride. We could afford to blow the money on the accomplishment for the sake of an accomplishment. Other have obviously done the calculation and its not worth it....at least so far.

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Posted by shel311

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Posted on 4/26/24 at 2:41 pm to ThuperThumpin

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Im just talking about landing on the moon. Yes we benefitted from the investment in the form of spin off tech and some experimental data but it was mostly about national pride. We could afford to blow the money on the accomplishment for the sake of an accomplishment. Other have obviously done the calculation and its not worth it....at least so far.

I hear ya.

We're planning to go back and gave a whole bunch of reasons: Economical, political, further space exploration, etc.

I get the 60s space wars and we got there first thing, I get that. But that does not mean there were no advantages for a country to go back any time in the last 50 years. So I just don't see any logical answer as to why another country didn't go anytime in the last 10 or 20 years for the reasons above and in my previous post.

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