NPR audio
"Bob Wimmer is a scientist at the University of Kiel in Germany who built a radiation detector for Chang'e 4 {China's lunar lander on the far side of the moon}. He says the speed at which the Chinese work is astonishing.
We all have to speed up too, or else pay tribute to our new overlords.
"Bob Wimmer is a scientist at the University of Kiel in Germany who built a radiation detector for Chang'e 4 {China's lunar lander on the far side of the moon}. He says the speed at which the Chinese work is astonishing.
"European missions are extremely slow, the Americans are about twice as fast, and the Chinese are a factor of two to five faster than the Americans."From the moment he got funding to the moment his experiment launched, was just over a year, which is nothing for a space mission.
"It is just incredibly intense."---
We all have to speed up too, or else pay tribute to our new overlords.
