Japan is up to some wacky stuff, cue shock.

• Japan wants to have robots on the moon by 2015.
• Japan wants to have a robot colony on the moon by 2020.
• Japan wants to send Bruce Willis to blow up the Asteroid on a collision course with earth.

Two of the above statements are true, lucky for you Bruce Willis isn't fond of Japan.

He also enjoys explosions and long walks on the beach.

Japan, trying to close the gap between us and Armageddon (no pun intended) has once again set itself a ridiculous goal. Japan plans to have partially autonomous robots on the moon as soon as 2015. Eventually, the robots will build more robots, so on and so forth until the moon is converted into a robot colony made by robots, for robots. Jokes about sentient AI aside, this is actually pretty awesome. If any country is able to do something straight out of a mech anime, it's japan. Even if we don't have actual humans, we still have virtual surrogates exploring for us (even though it is a bit lazy). The next logical step would be to go past the moon and place robot colonies on the other uninhabitable planets in our solar system, and then further towards Proxima Centauri and so on. I can easily imagine a future where our galaxy is completely inhabited by scout droids.

We come in peace

This isn't just all talk no action though, Japan has already put forth 2.2 billion dollars to reach it's goal. All this money was presumably raised by the sales of the Wii, DS, and Japan's number one export: tentacle porn.

Typical Japanese breakfast.

via PopSci

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