OT: China may do a Mars sample return in 2028 before the US...

[Jan Panteltje]

With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/with-nasas-plan-faltering-china-knows-it-can-be-first-with-mars-sample-return/
"China is likely to become the first country to return samples from Mars."

IMO this is nice, they will very likely confirm signs of life there,
something that NASA has been denying because of their Adam and Eve sponsors now for many years.

OTOH it may introduce the Mars virus here
and the human COVID one there.

Interesting times :-)

[john larkin]

Post by Jan Panteltje
With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/with-nasas-plan-faltering-china-knows-it-can-be-first-with-mars-sample-return/
"China is likely to become the first country to return samples from Mars."

That is literally criminal.

https://www.wfp.org/countries/china

"Almost 150.8 million people are malnourished. Given the size of
China’s population, rates of 9.4 percent for stunting in children,
19.6 percent for anemia and 25 percent for overweight represent
significant national and global burdens."

[Bill Sloman]

Post by john larkin

With NASA’s plan faltering, China knows it can be first with Mars sample return
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/with-nasas-plan-faltering-china-knows-it-can-be-first-with-mars-sample-return/
"China is likely to become the first country to return samples from Mars."

That is literally criminal.
https://www.wfp.org/countries/china
"Almost 150.8 million people are malnourished. Given the size of
China’s population, rates of 9.4 percent for stunting in children,
19.6 percent for anemia and 25 percent for overweight represent
significant national and global burdens."

Since a substantial proportion of the US population is malnourished -
mostly manifesting itself as obesity - your own administration would be
equally criminal.

You still haven't got universal health, and the health care you do
deliver costs half as much again more than the most expensive of the
other advanced industrial countries, which suggests your health care
system - such as it is - is a thoroughly criminal rip-off. It can
deliver great health care to people who can pay for it. It's dismal
performance during the Covid-19 epidemic is a reminder that - for
infectious diseases - universal health care offers advantages even to
those rich enough to buy it for themselves.