What do you think the future of global society looks like?

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BFR said:

SvennoJ said:

For 2022 here's a list

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/10/4/nwad058/7070744

1. Discoveries by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope
2. Construction completed at China Space Station
3. Discoveries of common genes in corn and rice to improve yields
4. Discovery of metallic behaviors in a bosonic high-temperature superconductor
5. Artificial synthesis of glucose and fatty acids from CO₂
6. Successful debut of China's most powerful solid-propellant carrier rocket: Lijian-1 (ZK-1A)
7. Successful launch of the Kuafu-1 satellite: Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S)
8. Hydrogen generation technology to electrolyze seawater without desalination
9. World record of highest magnetic field broken by China's Steady High Magnetic Field Facility
10. Earth Summit Mission set multiple records at Mount Qomolangma

Seriously, SJ.

Has China put its citizens on the Moon? Or has any other country on planet Earth done what the USA has done?

The USA landed man on the moon in 1969.
You bet China has the technology today to do the same today, they may be behind technologically to most western nations, but they aren't half a century or more behind.

Most nations have the technical capability to do it... The question is if they have the political and financial incentive to do it? Unlikely... And I would argue the USA lacks the ambition to reach for the stars these days as well... Politically the USA is more focused on the southern border and immigrants eating pets than anything actually ambitious and noteworthy on the world stage.

China is potentially set to be a larger economy than the USA in the next decade, they are the country to watch.