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[Chaos2Frozen]

Why would that happen?

If down the road US becomes so anti-science.

 

[watershed]

I'm so glad there is some country out there investing seriously in space exploration now that the US has backed off so much.

 

[JordanN]

I could see Trump getting mad if China starts to overshadow us in this regard and then push a real attempt at competing with China in a modern space race.It would be a positive even if it were for the wrong reason.

It would be ironic if Trump started caring about space.

Space is full of open borders. And astronauts would be considered undocumented aliens.

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Yes. I don't hate China or anything, but some healthy competition is just what NASA needs.

Well, it's the only way they'll be able to maintain their funding during a Trump admin.

 

[WaterAstro]

Yep. China will get a man on Mars first at this rate.

No one is making it to Mars before Solar radiation kills them.

 

[Nemesis121]

Trump gonna say China is spying, goes to war over peaceful space exploration..

 

[GeoGonzo]

I see US math education is living up to its reputation

Possible twist: bootsthecat is actually a russian spy pretending to be american. He mistakenly was speaking about Luna 2 (which did in fact hit the moon 57 years ago).

 

[CyclopsRock]

If down the road US becomes so anti-science.

I think this is just people getting worked up tbh. The only thing we have any reason to "fear" is NASAs money being moved from Earth Sciences to spaceflight, which is bad for climate change research but not obviously bad for "science". Furthermore the US remains (and will for the foreseeable future) remain at the top for both University research due to its plethora of excellent research Colleges, and private company research, due to its, uh, robust patent laws.

On the other hand, China remains a place where no one except the Chinese want to do research, owing the questionable ownership over the results and the fact that espionage and, and, basically, thievery have such a large role in their large scientific projects.

Finally, I see little reason to think that, were research to flood out of the US for some unmentioned reason, it wouldn't end up going to Europe. Europe has a large population of English speakers, it's open to outwards investment, has a bunch of world class research institutions and universities as well as a bunch of multi-national cutting edge projects like CERN, the ESA.

I don't think the US will cease to be the world's largest progenitor of research any time soon but if it were, I'm sure it would be Europe that succeeded it.