From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 16:10:34 MDT
<<I gathered that. What alarms me is the perverse ingenuity of this proposal.
We may say "Oh there's no immediate prospect of lunar colonisation.." but if
this kind of thing took effect it could cause substantial legal problems for
ventures in that direction. Fortunately I think the Chinese will simply
ignore this kind of stuff.
Steve Davies>>
Moreover, the Chinese will use lunar landing, a small base perhaps as a way
to crow to the world, how "superior" they are. In other words ti gain and
inspire propaganda. One scholar has compared China to 1866 Bismark's Germany,
But that is another matter.
If the Chinese use technology as we understand it, there will be only a large
economic cost, and little in return, materially. This is the same Chinese
leadership, that remember, that went into a tailspin over the WorldWatch
Institutes' article in 1999, "Who Will Feed China?" I suspect the Chinese
know their limits, but seek to gain waht they can by testing people. Harkens
back to the Post Stalin Soviets, doesn't it? No mystery there.
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