'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'

[Sgt.Rocknroll]

The West fears Russia is poised to invade Ukraine, but it seems the Kremlin has a bigger conquest in its sights - the Moon.
Moscow today set out plans to conquer and colonise space, including a permanent manned moon base.
Deputy premier Dmitry Rogozin said: 'We are coming to the moon forever.'


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2602291/We-coming-Moon-FOREVER-Russia-sets-plans-conquer-colonise-space-including-permanent-manned-moon-base.html#ixzz2yfupaWNG

[deuem]

Are we in for a cold moon war?
 Maybe it is Russia that said this, but is about time someone did! After all it is just sitting there waiting.
 

[Ellirium113]

Are we in for a cold moon war?
 Maybe it is Russia that said this, but is about time someone did! After all it is just sitting there waiting.

For centuries the leading economic power was the one who had the largest navy. Now we are seeing a transition of this economic power shift from naval power to control of space assets. Russia and the BRICSA nations are about to flush the US dollar like a pile of radioactive stool. I think we are witnessing the end of the notion of one world government as the Russians have clearly stated in the past they will NOT be a part of a unipolar world dominated by American policy.

[PLAYSWITHMACHINES]

Tokamak is a russian name, after all .
Ivan should be pleased, America financed the revolution so they could be where they are now

[rdunk]

Well, the accomplishment of the U.S. relative to the Moon is "Pee POOR". We have been doing some sort of "group hustle" with our Moon initiatives for a lot of years, which has allowed every country and their dogs to now attain some sense of the necessary technology to go up there and take all of it they want. And we the U.S. are still playing with ourselves, and not really doing anything productive in that regard. The Moon is out there for the whosoevers who have a big enough "set" to go out there and take whatever they want of it!

Our NASA space program is pretty much like every other major initiative by our federal government. In pretty much every way it is lacking in what is necessary to truly achieve any sort of major long term objectives in space exploration, with boots on the ground discovery.

Now, both Russia and China seem to be taking the lead in moving forward with their own space plans, while the U.S. is still trying to figure out how this government can pay for obamacare, pay for 50 million people on food stamps, and pay for the rest of its 18 trillion dollar and still growing national debt.

Right now, the way our federal government is directly screwing up just about every aspect of life in this country, there is no way for us to achieve any sort of real Moon exploration anyway. So, I say more power to Russia and China, in taking the Moon for themselves, as we have relinquished whatever element of being first that we might have had.   

[zorgon]

Tokamak is a russian name, after all .
Ivan should be pleased, America financed the revolution so they could be where they are now

The KEY POINT

Experimental research of tokamak systems started in 1956 in Kurchatov Institute, Moscow by a group of Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich. The group constructed the first tokamaks, the most successful being T-3 and its larger version T-4. T-4 was tested in 1968 in Novosibirsk, conducting the first ever quasistationary thermonuclear fusion reaction.