Why is nobody paying attention to this?

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I had never even heard it, had any of you? And yet it is since 2007 that Germany had announced the establishment of a purely German space program, separate from the European space agency, and intended to go to the Moon. Now Peter Hintze, the German federal director of aerospace, has announced that Germany plans a mission to the Moon within ten years. One of the many ways in which the world media are corrupt is that they never pay any attention to news like this. There is a meme that Europe is lazy and declining, and that the future is in the Far East. Any news that contradict the meme simply are not publicized. And when German spacemen will in fact be walking on the Moon, everyone will be surprised, not knowing that the program had been widely announced.

(the news was reported by today's Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire)

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Maybe it's the science fiction? I mean, the real space programs are competing with science fictional space journeys in which we meet Daleks and Klingons and other cool-but-deadly aliens. How can the moon or Mars or any place humans might really get to compare?

But perhaps for the Germans it will feel necessary to assert their identity at a time when Germany has in some ways ceased to exist as a nation, becoming a mere province in the European Union, and because of very low German birthrates has an uncertain future. (The overwhelming majority of my second cousins in Germany never had any children and are becoming too old to do so, those few who have reproduced have mostly had only one child.)