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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday June 14 2019, @11:12AM (2 children)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 14 2019, @11:12AM (#855474) Journal

    It's interesting; I don't know whether the poll is designed to survey nations' chances of landing on the moon or survey soylentils' attitudes to tech advances for different nations.

    Nb: ESA is not even bothering. Interesting attitude and possibly correct?

    Word came out that we needed a new poll. After about 30 seconds of thought, this topic came to mind. I opened a new poll, had up to 8 choices to fill in, and these are what came to mind off the top of my head. Let's just say that I like to keep an eye on who is up to what in the field, but am by no means as avid a rocket news junkie as some people I am familiar with. I later realized I had omitted the ESA but then the thought came that (1) There were no more places available to add it to the poll, (2) There *was* the "Other (specify)" option and (3) I could think of no expressions of human spaceflight interest for the moon by the ESA, so figured it was not that much of a shortcoming. Given the poll has been up for at least 10 days and this is the first mention that I have seen about the ESA, it seems my gut feeling on this was not too far off.

    That said, should the ESA express an interest in human spaceflight (HSF) to the Moon (or Mars or anyplace else), I would most heartily be rooting for them! I have waited most patiently for progress on HSF since I watched the Apollo landings on TV and the ensuing activities with Skylab, Mir, Shuttle, ISS, etc. I've also watched with great interest all the unmanned probes that have explored the planets, asteroids, and beyond (Voyagers 1 and 2!)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Friday June 14 2019, @11:22AM (1 child)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday June 14 2019, @11:22AM (#855479)

    Hope the comment wasn't taken as a criticism - it wasn't intended to be one.

    I just thought it was interesting that China is seen as such a strong contender. I am interested by the comparison between Britain at the turn of the 19th-20th century and US at the turn of the 20th-21st century; there seemed to be a similar "empire is doomed and Germany is rising" sort of attitude in Britain 100 years ago which, it seems to me, became a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy. Britain seems to have just sort of wandered into WW1 with lots of hand wringing and worrying but no actual plan, either military or political, tactical or strategic. Let's hope US does not follow suit.

    So as I say, it is interesting to see the poll results, and I don't know whether the result is technological or sociological.

    • (Score: 2) by martyb on Friday June 14 2019, @03:35PM

      by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 14 2019, @03:35PM (#855614) Journal

      No offense taken. I appreciate your providing me a way to voice something that had come to me, later, and the fact that you were wondering about it suggested to me that you might not be the only one... so why not set the record straight?

      That is an interesting analogy to the history of England and Germany... nicely expressed!

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