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.
CG artists use available assets to finish project on time, within budget. Don’t trust any computer generated speculative graphics to be accurate in any way. Some artists are just filing in the blanks to get the thing done.
Brave of you to assume DALLE or Midjourney wasnt the creator
The rendering looks way too 90’s to be made my modern AI image generation. Why would anyone ask midjourney to generate images that look like they were made in Bryce, when they could have it make anything else?
Everything you used to write this comment was at least partially made in China, let’s not pretend after 40 years of the world outsourcing to them that the don’t have the skill, infrastructure, or money to do what America did in the 70s.
Yeah that’s not great for the USA trying to maintain its position on top, but just because it sucks for us doesn’t mean it ain’t true.
We literally sold them our future for short term gains.
Bro, they’re talking about the blatantly terrible CG image in the article. Who are you talking to
They plan to force Nasa to sell to a Chinese company
In exchange for tiktok? 🤔
Maybe it will finally get a bigger budget
Or just … use it like a port where other nations can rent landing space? Maybe even share resources like the ISS does and charge others rent
NASA hasn‘t used a space shuttle in how many years? They just used assets to make a quick render of something that will never be. It‘s a poor PR stunt. Don‘t read too much into it.
Or else NASA won’t be able to fly over Chinese space???
hard to invent your own stuff when you have no social mobility or intellectual property and torture individualism.
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.
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.
The entire fundamental basis of the CCPs economic miracle is that intellectual property is not respected.
I’m intrigued, how so?
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.
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.
Lol saying china respects IP is hilarious.
Nothing weird about it. They have zero respect for international IP law.
Does it also contain footage of a nuclear waste dump?
It’s a secret tool that will help us later
International cooperation, imagine
Maybe they are planning a multinational base like the iss…
Twittwr link to video , to anyone curious like me. The render looks like CNSA is about as well funded as NASA.
I don’t see the US on that list even. They probably wants to build their own lunar base, with robots, and weapons.
And blackjack?
Did you actually look at who is on said list?
Is this a laser pyramid?
That weapon is fully operational!
