Image taken last week by China's lunar orbiter, the Chang'e 1, reveals that the moon has changed little in 40 years, which is totally unsurprising given that it's a cold, dead, airless chunk of abiotic rock
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"The Chinese nation is fully able to stand tall among the world's ranks of advanced nations," said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday, without even a trace of irony.
Other Asian nations eager to enter the world's most elaborate pissing contest by playing catch-up 40 years after the fact include Japan and India.
On the other hand, the moon's rich deposits of He-3, which could be useful for nuclear fusion, if that ever gets off the ground, might explain why so many countries are aiming to divvy up the moon the way they plan to divvy up the soon to be ice-free Arctic.
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