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[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Too bad Trump banned NASA from any cooperation with China.

Oh wait, that was Obama in 2011.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Goadstool@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

how the heck is this emoji not :obummer:

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that's a great name, but before tags on emojis there were a lot of complaints about how hard it was to remember some of the emoji names. it probably predates tags

[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Vote blue! :soy-face:

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago

US only does the kind of science that makes GPUs more expensive with no real benefit to consumers (Intel, now with AI!)

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fully expect China to start poaching NASA scientists and bringing their entire families over with them at some point

[–] Lerios@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my area of science isn't space, but yeah that is genuinely and unironically my life plan. Xi please

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

My area of science is being liberated by the PLA in the Sino-Burgertown wars. Xi please.

may Chinese Operation Paperclip (based edition) happen in our times inshallah xi-plz

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should explicitly not give it to the US, since they did it the same

[–] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should make Americans come to China to do the research alongside Chinese scientists.

Let the scientists make public calls for access, look like you're taking the high road by giving it to them, force some researchers to see China in reality, and hopefully accelerate the brain drain.

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

I like this idea

Response to:

After the Chang'e-6 samples, weighing nearly 2 kilograms, were safely transported to a special laboratory for further study on Friday, NASA spokesperson Faith McKie told media that while China worked with the European Space Agency, France, Italy and Pakistan on this mission, "NASA wasn't invited to take part in the moon probe."

NASA also didn't get "any direct invitation" to study China's moon rocks, after it welcomed all scientists from around the world to apply to study them, McKie told NatSec Daily.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1315190.shtml

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On a similar but unrelated note are those astronauts still stuck in the ISS? They should ask China for help getting them down like that one town asked the Soviets to repair their bridge during the Cold War lmfao

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It's the Russians who are going to be ready to step in for that but same difference I guess.

[–] HexBroke@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

The US government has not landed a robotic spacecraft on the moon since 1968