Unmanned Chinese spaceprobe lands on the Moon

[Refractive Reflections]

It certainly brings China up another step in the space exploration field. But unless researchers can find new alternative energies, like developing nuclear fusion, it's a waste of time and resources for any country to currently pursue any type of manned mission to Mars, considering our current energy resources (fossil fuels), and the tens of millions of miles in distance between Earth and Mars.

It's quite a technological contrast that our 21st century electronic consumer goods (i.e. smartphones), still somewhat depend on 19th century developed power generation (i.e. coal power).