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Or not bothering, because nuking the enemy from orbit is so much easier than being first to Mars. And it'll thin out mining competition! Double play!

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I totally forgot about Space Force! That'll be another few hundreds of billions! You better believe Space Force will happen first, it'll make Eric Prince even richer.

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Marvel already did the Astronaut werewolf thing:

https://marvel.wikia.com/wi...

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Brokeback Steppeland?

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Good for the Chinese. They've sorta got their .01% parasites under control and are funneling resources to space exploration. We could do the same after we fix the economy so that pricks like the Kochs, DeVoses, and Mercers aren't hoovering up money to sit there and do nothing productive.

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"That how we know this is FAKE NEWS!!1! Getting to the dark side of the moon would be GREAT, therefore unpossible for Chinese cuz there not 'murican!!11!!"

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If we weren't such dicks from Nixon on, we'd have a base up there to monitor them, like in 2001.

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Yes, my son and I watched both this version and the 1960 version back to back after we'd finished reading the book.

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Damn, but that's clever! Thousands of subminiature Chinese persons, lurking in our electronics, doing Chinese stuff, and taking notes...

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Most inscrutable director of China's space program: https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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...or some super villain attempts to carve his name on it and the hero arrives just a couple seconds late... https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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OT, and I'm sure someone has already said this below, but doesn't that propaganda poster seem a little...Matt Damon-y?

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Nobody scruting our director!

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But it can turn on a dime.

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< bows >

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If I swung that way, not that I do, but if I did, not that there’s anything wrong with it, because I don’t, some of my best friends are those people, and that’s fine, but I don’t feel that way, but if I did...

...that studly Russian/Chinese holding hands poster might be kind of sexy.

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