The US just claimed lunar time — here’s why it’s a geopolitical gamechanger

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1. Submission Statement: The Us has anounced the establishment of a Lunar Time zone and launch Atomic clocks onto the moon early next year to serve as a local time keeping baseline. this is a step to solidiy American control over Luna, and is fundamental to the establishment of Lunar bases and colonization. which has been the bipartisan goal of Americas Artemis Program for the last 8 years

2. IMO: this is another step to establishing American Control over the Moon. Luna Serves as the obvious gate keeper and supply station for any missions into deep space. colonizing the moon was one of trumps goals in his first administration and while he is not happy with how Nasa has run the program since he is still committed to the idea. with DARPA and the American Aerospace industry actively building the stuff to have a Lunar Base in the next 20 years.

3. They did this because china and Russia announced they’re building a lunar base

4. US has solid advantages in aerospace and reusable launch capability. X-37B spaceplane also has been conducting orbital maneuvers and space-based research for years now.

   At the same time, miniaturized satellites and maneuver vehicles have allowed for mass proliferation of monitoring systems easily distributed by said reusable launch capability and spaceplane.

   That research conducted in the 90s is about to pay off massively.

5. I’m pretty sure right now the US has more important problems than planning how to colonize the moon lol

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