The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has released a video of its concept for a lunar base to be developed across the next couple of decades.

CNSA unveiled the video on Wednesday (April 24) as part of the country’s annual space day celebrations. The project is known as the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) and was jointly announced in 2021 by China and Russia.

China is now leading the moon base initiative and attempting to attract international partners for the endeavor. So far, alongside China, Russia, Venezuela, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, South Africa, Egypt, Thailand and Nicaragua have joined the initiative, according to Space News.

One curious detail of the video is the presence of a retired NASA Space Shuttle appearing to lift off from a launch pad in the background.

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    5 months ago

    hard to invent your own stuff when you have no social mobility or intellectual property and torture individualism.

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      or intellectual property

      Yes, getting sued for stepping on a mine like rounded corners is so good for inventiveness.

      IP helps fast modernization in new industries. Of the “industrial revolution” kind. It didn’t help inventiveness itself even back then, and now it’s clearly the main impediment.

      Which also makes me think that all kinds of political diversity, even states like China, are good for humanity as a whole. How else would we be able to compare them after all.

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      5 months ago

      China has actually been capitalist since Deng. Not sure about social mobility, but intellectual property and individualism are respected, though they’re still pretty authoritarian, along with Xi’s atrocities.

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            In short:

            Sinovac, “their” covid vaccine, was stolen from Canada when Canada offered to help them produce a vaccine. Signed an official treaty and everything. Canada did the hard work that they literally couldn’t, and still can’t, do. Then they took the vaccine and claimed it was entirely their own work.

            Huawei’s 5G development miracle is 100% stolen technology from Nortel. They did no work of their own other than work so shoddy even the UK Tories didn’t want to touch it.

            These are just the two highest profile ones that go right to the leaders of the CCP.

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              Funny how both of these stole from Canada. I found no information whatsoever on whether Sinovac stole from anyone.

              I did find information on Nortel and how Huawei took their secrets from Chinese hackers. But 1. Nortel filed bankruptcy the same year LTE was introduced, and the hacks were a few years before. I seriously doubt that their technology was this advanced to be retrofit for 5G that easily without much innovation. 2. These were still Chinese hackers. This industry also requires innovation.