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Will we build a VILLAGE on the moon? China in talks with Europe about launching a lunar settlement
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Updated: 07:27 EDT, 26 April 2017 | By Daisy Dunne

Posted on 04/26/2017 6:38:01 AM PDT by Red Badger

Tian Yulong, secretary general for China's space agency, confirmed the plans ESA has described its 'Moon Village' as a launching pad for missions to Mars The lunar site could also support space mining missions and even tourism It could also act as a 'pit stop' for the further exploration of deep space

China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human settlement on the moon.

The secretary general for China's space agency, Tian Yulong, disclosed the talks today in Chinese state media.

The ESA has previously described its 'Moon Village' as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars.

Further details on what the collaboration could entail were not revealed.

But last year, the head of the ESA elaborated on plans to build a village on the moon.

'The future of space travel needs a new vision,' said Jan Woerner.

The concept is a base for lunar exploration by humans and robots, which would act as a stopover for spacecraft, and become a 'village' with mining and even tourism.

'The future of space travel needs a new vision.

'Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever,' said Woerner.

'If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on. No, that would be misleading.

'My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place.

'And this place would be on the Moon.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: astronomy; mars; moon; space
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1 posted on 04/26/2017 6:38:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

So... the empty cities were in Red China were just practice?


2 posted on 04/26/2017 6:39:08 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Red Badger

Other than the spectacular view from there, what advantage is there to living long-term on the moon?


3 posted on 04/26/2017 6:41:32 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

As a first step and practice for perhaps someday living on other planets?


4 posted on 04/26/2017 6:43:09 AM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: Red Badger
the EU and China I can only imagine where that will lead...


5 posted on 04/26/2017 6:46:42 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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To: Red Badger

China’s going to be around for a long time to come, but if they’re teaming with Europe on any kind of technology project of this scale, they better hurry. If Islam succeeds in over-running and dominating Europe as seems to be happening, it’ll soon slip into a technological and intellectual Bronze Age morass which will preclude any forward thinking of this sort.


6 posted on 04/26/2017 6:47:50 AM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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To: JimRed

Health reasons, possibly, longevity of people’s lives.

But the biggie is H3:

H3 mining:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3

China is going to mine the Moon for helium-3 fusion fuel:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/197784-china-is-going-to-mine-the-moon-for-helium-3-fusion-fuel


7 posted on 04/26/2017 6:47:55 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Red Badger

The Chinese version of “Stone Soup”.

And it works every time!


8 posted on 04/26/2017 6:48:26 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: Red Badger

Oh please…let us choose who gets to go to the colony from the U.S.!


9 posted on 04/26/2017 6:49:00 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: JimRed
Other than the spectacular view from there, what advantage is there to living long-term on the moon?

We'll sell the ChiComms on needing a full-time consultant


10 posted on 04/26/2017 6:49:16 AM PDT by COBOL2Java ("Game over, man, game over!" (my advice to DemocRATs))
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To: Red Badger

I’ve been saying for years that we should send robots to the moon to build a base for ultimate human habitation. Robots would reduce the expense and the risk. In addition it would create an incubator for robot technology which is the next tech vanguard. If we do nothing then China will soon be ahead of us. Already Europe is ahead of us on robot technology.


11 posted on 04/26/2017 6:49:19 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Dr. Sivana

It makes sense. Chinese people are smaller................


12 posted on 04/26/2017 6:49:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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To: Red Badger

The closest earth gets to Mars is between 60,000,0000 and 100,000,000 miles. We are 239,000 miles from the moon. So it is like traveling 2.39 miles and saying it is a good jumping off point for a 600 to 1,000 mile trip.

I don’t get it unless leaving the moon’s atmosphere is so much easier than earth however, even so, you still have to get all the supplies to the moon.


13 posted on 04/26/2017 6:51:50 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: Red Badger

The problem with building a Chinese lunar colony is a year later you want to build another one.


14 posted on 04/26/2017 6:52:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

For empty cities on the moon?


15 posted on 04/26/2017 6:53:16 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Red Badger

Seems ridiculous at first.

Humans are optimized for life on Earth. We are not suited for life on a desolate satellite of Earth. A satellite that has no seasons, no atmosphere, no plants, no clouds, no green grass. Its gravity is a fraction of that of Earth.
Plus it is morally unacceptable to bring forth children on the Moon with the intention of leaving them there for their entire lives, with no choice in the matter.

However, there is a reason for their madness.
The new colony would be established based on principles of atheistic materialistic communism with no influence whatsoever from Christianity or Judaism. In short, the kind of world the left has been trying to establish on Earth, with limited success.


16 posted on 04/26/2017 6:53:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, primarily a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination.)
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To: mainestategop

As long as EACH and EVERY member of NATO is paying their hare and not one dime, I don’t give a #### what Western Europe does anymore.


17 posted on 04/26/2017 6:55:34 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust Conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Red Badger

What about the Federation?


18 posted on 04/26/2017 6:55:42 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: COBOL2Java

“We’ll sell the ChiComms on needing a full-time consultant”

Along with her supporting cast of moonbats.


19 posted on 04/26/2017 6:56:32 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Red Badger

Dream no small dreams.

A moon-base “village” would be necessarily be carved out BELOW the surface of the moon, as this is both the most cost-effective and structurally secure design. Together as a gateway to mining the subsurface ores, as insulation against both extreme heat and cold, and a containment for retaining the necessary life support for the persons living there on a permanent basis.

Because humanity evolved in an environment with considerably greater gravity, persons who live long-term, or are born while on the Moon, would acquire very different physical characteristics, and may not even be able to return to an Earth environment, at least not without considerable adaptive means.

But think of the possibilities for development of solar power, with a face of the moon turned to the sun for extended periods of time.


20 posted on 04/26/2017 6:56:42 AM PDT by alloysteel (Islam is not the highest and best end goal to be aspired to by mankind.)
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