China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon 345
WindBourne writes "China will be launching 2 new space stations this next year. One is for their civil program (as run by the military), while the second is openly for the military. It appears that there will be multiples of the military version to be launched in 2010, and that they are developing the same US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was canceled in 1969. In addition, it appears that China is accelerating their timelines on a number of the earlier space announcements."
less red tape? (Score:5, Funny)
isn't all their tape red?
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:5, Funny)
That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.
China is calling it the Mobile Space Garrison (Score:4, Funny)
Or MSG.
Re:And we did this (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Good. (Score:2, Funny)
I was just thinkin' this! It's about gorram time, too. If we're not careful we'll have to cooperate with'em to build the Core Planets, and then all of our children's children will be cursing in Chinese!
Re:Soviet space battlestations (Score:4, Funny)
Nonetheless, it's interesting to speculate about what might have happened in the end-stages of the Cold War if the Soviets had gained control of the high ground in this fashion.
If quality control was so low that they couldn't even rotate it correctly, it probably wasn't anything to worry about. Besides, it had a well-known small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port...
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:3, Funny)
The Chinese government announced that over 7% of all domestic companies went out of business over the last year
Of course, those are just the failed companies due to a crackdown by Blizzard. LOL
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:4, Funny)
if you can refute it with something besides "you're a brainwashed sheep," I'd be interested to hear your argument.
Your a brainwashed duck!
Re:China Copying US, Including Mistakes Made and N (Score:4, Funny)
And what happens when a) you get hacked or b) someone from the manned station next door comes over for a visit and unplugs a few things.
a) Explode the space station.
b) Explode the space station.
And you didn't ask this, but the answer to what happens when c) you get bored of your stupid unmanned space station
is
c) Explode the space station.
Re:Soviet space battlestations (Score:3, Funny)
Because of CG issues, the battlestation (about as big as a US space shuttle) was mounted upside down on the booster.
Okay I know CG was pretty primitive in the 80s, but I can't for the life of figure out how a 180 degree rotate on the station model would help. Or was it just a bug in their transform matrix? I could buy that. Now what really has me baffled is how a CG battle station would have affected the outcome of the cold war. Upstaging Pixar in the early days? I don't get it.
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:2, Funny)
I am 100% confident that in the coming years most people will WISH they had gold and quite a bit of it in their basket.
Oh... you're one of those.
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:3, Funny)
Counter Strike class? Is that what you guys called your IT classes in school? We called it Quake class.
Re:You know whats ironic? (Score:3, Funny)
Not really going to answer to everything, but...
Ahem. *Points to the current Italian prime minister* Ahem.
Disclaimer: I actually am Italian, and I can confirm that your accuracy (>90% idiots) is quite amazing. It seems you have found a good statistical predictor.