"Pat Flannery" wrote ...

Hans-Marc Olsen wrote:

If we don't hurry, the Chinese will build a moon-base first, install
defense satellites and we're doomed.

Would someone like to explain to Mr. Olson what happens to things
orbiting the Moon?

The boring explanation about variations in the moon's graviational
pull due to irregularities in its make up or the _real_ explanation that
involves missing cosmonauts and Boris the moon monkey?