China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch 67
henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."
How delicious... (Score:5, Funny)
The story is showing in red on the main page - perhaps reflecting the fear of a red mars in all of us. Oh, wait...
Sounds fine to me (Score:5, Funny)
China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt
A probe to Mars, made by China, tested and then launched by the Russians with their effort called 'Grunt'.
What could possibily go wrong?
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Our two glorious socialist motherlands will teach you yankees yet. Mars is the red planet and naturally belongs to us.
Phobos-Grunt? (Score:4, Funny)
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It's quite ingenious really. Pure Chinese knowhow (Score:5, Funny)
I heard about this probe. It's really a marvel of engineering. Looking at it you can see it's the next phase in Chinese innovation. The probe they're sending is designed to go to mars, steal the American probe, then bring it back to China. After reverse engineering the American probe, the Chinese then launch their new probe back to mars.
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Communist Mars probes you!
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In addition, because something happened to Japan doesn't mean the same will happen to China. Making assumptions like this is the worst sort of racism ("all those people are the same").
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While I would like to agree with you. Read what the other posters have wrote. And while many will think USA made goods are crappy, the stuff from other countries is crappier.
Call me sensitive, but I was part of the car industry during the times when North American's laughed at the Japanese cars. I never laughed, and neither did my father (he was a German VP in Magna during those days) If you really want to get an eye opener of how times were rent Gungho
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/ [imdb.com]
These days it is very quaint, but it was a reflection of those times. And I just see those things repeating AGAIN...