Pat Flannery wrote in
:

Rand Simberg wrote:

I now realize that Mark Whittington is
right, and that there's a very real chance that the Chinese will beat
us to the moon, and lay claim to the strategic high ground. But we
must accept that, and work to change that potential outcome, whatever
it takes.

First off, at the rate they are moving, the Chinese will be on the moon
around 2025 if at all.
Second, being up there doesn't give them the "strategic high ground" due
to the time it would take anything to reach the Earth that was fired
from the Moon. In fact, if you want to worry about the Chinese high
ground scenario, watch out for stuff in Earth orbit, not way out on the
Moon.

Umm, maybe you haven't realized it yet, but that was Rand's April Fools
post.


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