China successfully landed a probe on the moon today. This was the first successful lunar probe mission in over 40 years.

Regardless of your opinion on China, take a moment to appreciate how fucking cool that is.

:xi-clap: :hex-moon:

  • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    theyre significantly less anomolous when you consider they were actions taken with the explicit purpose of pushing the country out of the great depression through industrial activity by putting everything on a war-footing.

    the massive mobilization of the economy indisputibly worked as planned. that they were fighting nazis was really somewhat secondary, and had those in charge felt the country would have been better served by continuing to play both sides as armsdealers, as they had been, they would have

      • crispyhexagon [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        thanks, i once wrote a paper about the u.s transition to "interventionism" as an economic policy that my history teacher didnt like.

        apparently what actually happened is the u.s was super altruistically playing world police and then the dirty commies blew themselves up in korea.