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Q: Is China's recent interest for space real, or just an ego trip?
What's the logic behind Chinese space exploration? What are their goals? Stroking the country's ego in the face of the US? Setting up spy satellites? Is there any genuine interest in space exploration?
Although, to be fair, it could be said that America's achievements in space came primarily because they were afraid the USSR would get on the moon first.
There are some societies in which goals are not clearly stated, or not stated at all. And is some of those societies, logic does not work.
With that in mind, and the poor knowledge of the real goals for the Chinese space program, the only thing left is to try a few wild guesses, in the hope that one, or a combination of a few, are the correct ones.
So, to me, some of those goals could be an ego trip, a condition to be accepted as a superpower, military gains, boosting the economy with the resulting spending and granting employment to many that otherwise will move overseas to work elsewhere.
I also feel that USA achievements in space exploration came as a result of national pride, and setting the proper priorities by President Kennedy, not because we were scared of anyone, much less the Russians. But that is only an opinion, do.
Space Exploration seems more to be an ego boosting brag thing, not just for the Chinese, but for the US, Russia and others which launch rockets though not people.
I honestly wish that we had continued with the same momentum that we had in the 1960's, but space travel is expenssive and is not really a priority or a top priority for any govenment anywhere.
Until we find the next equivalent of "gold" outside our world, we will continue orbiting the planet and maybe putter around the moon for the next hundred years or so.
Jnusb416:
I heard that they found an asteroid with plenty of gold on it, but at this point it would cost more to mine it than the value of the gold.
GuilinRaf:
Yes. It woud need to bee some new energy source or new element that can turn a quick profit or that we sorely need here on earth. I am not sure if I mis-remember, but in the 1970's the Tar Sands in Canada were too expensive to process for oil, until the price went up to the point that now it became profitable.
