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6 days agoIronically these types of guys are usually French, or English. Both will mock you for attempting to speak their language but also expect everyone to understand them. Often they will use the laziest of stereotypes to try and insult you because, despite living their entire lives within spitting distance of your country, they have an extremely narrow history education that boils down to “Why we were so great from 1000s to WW2 and then history ended”. You find them everywhere but in western Europe its those two nationalities disproportionately.
Yes, they have already sent bricks made of a volcanic material similar to lunar regolith to Tiangong a few months ago to study their exposure to space. Chang’e 7 will use a unique hopping rover to hopefully scout Shackleton in ways a conventional rover ever could. It almost sounds like one of those stupid venture capital buzzword baits that NASA might fund a feasibility study on and then shelve. But that is just a sign of how much more advanced China’s lunar exploration program is, they are doing quite literally what NASA can only dream of.
Of course this will not stop American so-called “Space enthusiasts” from completely ignoring these facts and claiming that because they sent some guys there in the 70s and then completely gave up for 50 years that anything done in space from now unto the heat death of the universe is second place.