“What The Fuck Was That?”
Submitted by YOUR NEW REALITY
It’s a good thing that The Moon is uninhabited, as far as we know. Can you imagine how annoyed we’d all be if Gronflixifurns a few galaxies away started doing this to us?
A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing has called a controlled collision.The Chang’e 1 lunar satellite hit the moon’s surface at 1613 local time (0813 GMT) at the end of a 16-month moon-mapping mission.
China launched the spacecraft in late October 2007 on a mission to survey the entire surface of the moon.
China’s ever-more ambitious space programme includes plans for a space station and landing a man on the moon.
By 2015 or 2018, will it be even necessary to send a man to The Moon before robotic-settlement has begun?
I’ll chance a guess that in the next decade, robots will digging foundations for permanent dwellings and installing water and air filtration plants long before humans return there.
Landing a man on The Moon before he/she has somewhere to call a temporary home is mostly about bragging rights, and lunar land claims, and claiming mining rights to territory on The Moon is going to become very, very interesting indeed. No doubt, if it gets nasty enough, there will be plenty more ‘incidents’ of spacecraft getting blown out of orbit, or meeting a non-glorious fate somewhere between the Earth and The Moon.
