Joseph P Farrell – This short article that was shared by Mr. K.B. is such a whopper doozie that it went right to the top of my “finals folder” for this week’s blogs. It’s one of those typically curt, but head spinning press releases from India’s Defence Research Wing. For those wanting an analogy, think of it as India’s version of the Diabolically Apocalyptic Research Projects Agency, or DARPA.(Ok, it may not be exactly DARPA, but you get the idea.) But back to the article: it’s not very long, but it manages to say a lot. And what it manages to say is this:
As India gears up for Chandrayaan 2, China moots artificial moons in space
Now, you might have noticed that Chandrayaan-2 will be India’s second satellite mission to the Moon, and its first to incorporate a soft lander and an automated rover. Coincidentally, India is not saying (at least, as far as I know) where it plans to land it nor what its rover will be roving around looking for, but I suspect that we all know. It is India, after all, whose lore contains the occasional “odd little thing” like statements to the effect that “the old Moon broke,” and various other tantalizing suggestions.