Something extremely important happened this weekend–and few American news companies chose to do much reporting on it.
China landed a rover on the moon–and now the first photos are coming back.
I spent a little of Saturday night listening to Richard C. Hoagland, with his crazed white mane of luscious hair, espouse something odd beliefs about China’s quest to find the glass structures on the moon he has been talking about since his Cronkite days. But he did say something else that made sense: The United States could have done this with a rover for years. But it decided not to.. instead, China has now entered the space race and, quite possibly, is planning to be the leader of the world to whoever or whatever is out there..
The question is: Will China use space for peaceful purposes? While we’re at that, will the United States or any other nation want to simply explore space for the pure attempt to help mankind as a whole? Or will we, as a world, disintegrate into a future where drones and lasers zap people from planetary or satellites somewhere deep in space?
Time will tell. In the mean time, all eyes of the planet are on Jade.
Well, all eyes except the media in the United States frightened to inform the populace that we’re not number one in this, or almost anything anymore.
Footage of the Jade landing released..
Another one planned for 2017..
