Once again I am begging china to use their moon rover to push over our flag, and challenge us to space battlebots.
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None of the Chang'e landing sites are very close to old Apollo sites.
Also, the flags the Apollo missions planted were probably blown over by the ascent stages firing.
They've all been bleached completely white by solar wind at this point too
America has basically surrendered in terms of space exploration anyways, so fitting.
Duh, thats why the flag is white
It's not about the flag, it's about sending a message 
Run over them repeatedly 
bringing a special small enclosure to the moon so you can put the american flags into it, fill it with air, and then burn the flags
It's just a white flag now, it's already surrendered
Fuck that is so perfect
A surrender to entropy and organizational decay is incredibly poetic
battle box*
DOD can whoopsie daisy and lose a couple billion dollars out their pocket and they just keep getting more without any consequences. Scientific missions have to halt everything because a screw costs $40 over budget. Whitey not even on the moon anymore.
The Pentagon had over 2 trillion dollars unaccounted for in the early 2000s but we can't have nationalized health care because it would be too expensive.
tell that to the houthis. They ought to find out!
NASA sucks without the Soviet Union.
NASA was funded as a way to launder the reputation of rocket propulsion research, which has some other purposes than space travel
NASA started sucking with the Nixon era post-Apollo budget cuts
What probably makes things worse is I can't imagine NASA gets to build much institutional knowledge, between sections of it getting privatized and the robotics division is probably just a resume builder for people who want to make apps where you feed in a picture of your dog and the app tells you what kind of carpet it is.
NASA sucks without being able to "hire" engineers from a certain central European country who were working for a particular type of right wing government and their rocket program during the 1940s.
Things are realy different when you can't just jump start your technological race against your biggest enemy by just "referencing" from others lol.
Meanwhile the F35 boondogle continues and China is dabbing on us with Mission after Mission.
And the unsurprising thing is, I've NEVER seen a report by my local MSM about Chinese space missions.
Perfidious orientals illegally invade far side of moon with unreviewed lander technology, refuse to then donate to honest Americans the moon rocks stolen from the surface
NASA literally couldn't touch the moon rocks China brought back even if China gave us some, because of the 2011 Wolf Amendment signed into law by Obama.
The Wolf Amendment is a law passed by the United States Congress in 2011, named after then–United States Representative Frank Wolf, that prohibits the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from using government funds to engage in direct, bilateral cooperation with the Chinese government and China-affiliated organizations from its activities without explicit authorization from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Congress.
when I'm in a shooting myself in the foot out of racist spite competition and my opponent is the US Congress: :x
No no, they actually made a request for a unilateral trade.
You give me your space rocks 
you get nothing in return
Capitalist efficiency doing its thing once again
I expect the usual suspects will point to this as an example of why everything should be privatized.
"NASA IS A COMMUNIST ORGANIZATION" scream government officials in 2025
I've definitely heard at least one lib earnestly call NASA socialism along with the other usual suspects of roads and the US military
got those astronauts down yet?
Embarrassing