# Chinese rover soft-lands on the Moon

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 2013, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310 "2013-12-14T16:46:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/61 "2013-12-17T18:17:51Z")

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So, uh, what, exactly, [is the plan](http://imgur.com/a/JpMnH) with this thing??

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**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/62 "2013-12-17T19:15:31Z")

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Red Rover, Red Rover, won’t you come over?

(And have some Tang, I guess…)\*

- Nod to Omar here.

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/63 "2013-12-17T20:25:56Z")

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> [@Hal\_Briston](#):
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> So, uh, what, exactly, [is the plan](http://imgur.com/a/JpMnH) with this thing??

Find [life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoUi4poCXI), of course. Can’t do that with Tang.

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**Author:** ![Alex\_from\_CB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alex\_from\_CB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_from_CB)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/64 "2013-12-19T03:51:30Z")

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Our Germans were clearly better than the Soviet’s Germans back in the 50’s and 60’s.

And now the Chinese have better Germans than ours?

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/65 "2013-12-19T04:21:26Z")

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> [@Maastricht](#):
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> Find [life](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neoUi4poCXI), of course. Can’t do that with Tang.

I’m pretty sure we’ve been doing it with tang since the dawn of time.

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**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chinese-rover-soft-lands-on-the-moon/676310/66 "2013-12-19T04:22:32Z")

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> [@Alex\_from\_CB](#):
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> Our Germans were clearly better than the Soviet’s Germans back in the 50’s and 60’s.
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> And now the Chinese have better Germans than ours?

nah, they’re just borrowing against our investment in Germans.

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