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Utxi4m t1_j1mgvfr wrote

Reply to comment by backcountrydrifter in China sets out clear and independent long-term vision for space by Gari_305

>Without a microprocessor supply chain all of Xi’s galactic ambitions are in lockdown.

What part(s) of space exploration needs sub 7nm chips?

>Life comes at you fast. It comes at your exponentially faster in space.

While that indeed is a valid point, the Chinese approach seems a tad more agile than trying to get Congress aboard with changes in real time.

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backcountrydrifter t1_j1mnt50 wrote

It’s not a nationalist thing for me. It’s that the Russian coolant leak at the international space station is a pretty good example that there is no nationality in space. There are just astronauts.

As a species we are far too interconnected at this point for China to have any real unilateral ambitions without cooperation with the rest.

Congress is no solution. They are effectively dead in the water as well.

As a species we are quickly approaching the point where we either do the same predictable shit of world wars, greed , and control… or we learn how to cooperate enough to become an interplanetary species before we finally extinguish ourselves on this planet.

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Utxi4m t1_j1mo7fc wrote

>As a species we are far too interconnected at this point for China to have any real unilateral ambitions without cooperation with the rest.

China got excluded from any and all collaboration with western space agencies. If they want anything in the sector, they need to go it alone.

>As a species we are quickly approaching the point where we either do the same predictable shit of world wars, greed , and control… or we learn how to cooperate enough to become an interplanetary species before we finally extinguish ourselves on this planet.

I agree. But sadly I really really doubt collaboration will win out.

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LittleBirdyLover t1_j1nrucy wrote

western space agencies

Just the U.S. China works with ESA and other “western” agencies.

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