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Russia and China plan to install a nuclear power plant on the Moon (intlmonitor.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Which part of this is not-the-onion-y? Building stuff on the moon might give us a good jumping off point for solar system exploration, and having a power source there would help construction. Is it that it's Russia and China doing it?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is it that it’s Russia and China doing it?

I mean...

If I were writing a fictional story about world domination by ruthless politicking, overthrowing foreign governments, and assassinating key opposition figures around the globe without an effective concern for local populations, it would be about the US.

But if I were writing one where the first step to world domination was an advanced moon base... pretty much gonna be Russia or China.

[–] Moghul@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, ok, I can kinda see it

[–] MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So we either go capitalist cyberpunk or 40k grimdark? How do we unlock the star trek option?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

FWIW the first one is pretty much actual US Imperialism.

Unfortunately for Star Trek we need to go through the Bell Riots first.

The Bell Riots were of such significance that their absence from Earth's history led to an alternate timeline, in which the United Federation of Planets was never created.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago

Here’s my assumption:

people think nuclear is bad
it goes without saying (because to that crowd, saying things breaks their worldview)
duh, nuclear bad, duh
on the moon
oniony because it’s a bad idea, and they’re doing it

They’re reading it something like:

Microsoft plans to cool data center using cow urine

You gotta be in a certain worldview, but from that worldview nuclear plants in space sounds crazy.