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Um.. why isn't this being talked about more? I remember the discussions were very lively everywhere from Youtube to HN and Reddit when India was attempting to land its probe on the moon. A rover on Mars is a huge thing! Why are discussions relatively tame now?
Which India probe was this? I don't remember any discussion or news about India landing a probe on the moon in the past 10 years.
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That's exactly the narrative that plays into the Chinese government's hands. That being said the Zhurong rover is funded by the China National Space Administration so it is actually the Chinese government. No one claims NASA employees act as private citizens.
SpaceX employees aren't USA employees. That makes all the difference.
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Just remember, by your definition, the US "stole" textile technology from the UK. [1] [1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...
Absolutely they did, but that's like saying your neighbor offended your great great great great great grandfather 143 years ago so you're justified in sleeping with his wife.
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Everyone stands in the shoulders of those who came before, and that is a good thing. The US didn't invent physics, didn't invent gunpowder, oil, math, textiles, ROCKETS, etc. But they did "acquire" them all, somehow. > China runs the largest IP theft program in the world. Most IP has been given to them by "businessmen" trying to gain and edge and betting wrong. That is not theft, if anything, is stupidity. To the deg…
Ah yes, so the chinese were "given" the designs to other military aircrafts which is why their fighter jets look identical to those from the USA and Russia? [0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/g23303922...
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If you're in the Americas, Europe, or Australia that will never happen in your lifetime. Think about how plausible the US annexing China and controlling it would be. Now flip that around and double the difficulty. If you're in southeast asia the calculus changes. But the cost benefit analysis really leans against annexing hostile locals these days unless it's some nationalist mythology like China and Taiwan. And if y…
> heading north Meanwhile latest census shows that the Northeastern China peoples are shifting to the South.
This is good, there should always be friendly competition between Nations to drive Space Exploration. I hope this lights a bigger fire under the ass of the current US Administration and NASA to push ahead harder, faster and farther. The US doesn't know how lucky they are to have SpaceX and Musk.
No thanks. Not looking forward to a friendly competition to develop auxiliary technology for wmds with an authoritarian regime. I like such regimes technologically obtuse. Maybe we can also give Iran and NK an award for pushing the boundaries of human knowledge on nuclear science. Your assessment of risk to humanity vs reward for human scientific progress is out of whack.
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Everyone stands in the shoulders of those who came before, and that is a good thing. The US didn't invent physics, didn't invent gunpowder, oil, math, textiles, ROCKETS, etc. But they did "acquire" them all, somehow. > China runs the largest IP theft program in the world. Most IP has been given to them by "businessmen" trying to gain and edge and betting wrong. That is not theft, if anything, is stupidity. To the deg…
Ah yes, so the chinese were "given" the designs to other military aircrafts which is why their fighter jets look identical to those from the USA and Russia? [0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/g23303922...
While I totally agree, the US in turn enables people like Musk to do… well, whatever it is Elon does…. more readily than other countries. Entrepreneurship is hard and especially so if your system of governance isn’t onboard with it.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161906.
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Just remember, by your definition, the US "stole" textile technology from the UK. [1] [1] https://www.pri.org/stories/2014-02-18/us-complains-other-na...
Absolutely they did, but that's like saying your neighbor offended your great great great great great grandfather 143 years ago so you're justified in sleeping with his wife.
For one thing, they have a longer lifespan. The comparison of a young US stealing IP from an industrialized Britain to a young PRC stealing IP from an industrialized US makes much more sense. The argument being that “stealing IP” is what nations do to industrialize all the time.
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I don’t think the Uigyurs would agree with that statement. Particularly the ones that are being raped and re-educated in camps.
That's blatant slander. Think about the detergent presented as 'evidence of weapon of mass destruction' that led to the invasion of Iraq.