Chinese Astronauts Board Space Station In Historic Mission (reuters.com) 38
Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth orbit after the NASA-led International Space Station. Reuters reports: The spacecraft Shenzhou-15, or "Divine Vessel", and its three passengers lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre at 11:08 p.m. (1508 GMT) on Tuesday in sub-freezing temperatures in the Gobi Desert in northwest China, according to state television. Shenzhou-15 was the last of 11 missions, including three previous crewed missions, needed to assemble the "Celestial Palace", as the multi-module station is known in Chinese. The first mission was launched in April 2021.
The spacecraft docked with the station more than six hours after the launch, and the three Shenzhou-15 astronauts were greeted with warm hugs from the previous Shenzhou crew from whom they were taking over. The Shenzhou-14 crew, who arrived in early June, will return to Earth after a one-week handover that will establish the station's ability to temporarily sustain six astronauts, another record for China's space program. The Shenzhou-15 mission offered the nation a rare moment to celebrate, at a time of widespread unhappiness over China's zero-COVID policies, while its economy cools amid uncertainties at home and abroad.
The spacecraft docked with the station more than six hours after the launch, and the three Shenzhou-15 astronauts were greeted with warm hugs from the previous Shenzhou crew from whom they were taking over. The Shenzhou-14 crew, who arrived in early June, will return to Earth after a one-week handover that will establish the station's ability to temporarily sustain six astronauts, another record for China's space program. The Shenzhou-15 mission offered the nation a rare moment to celebrate, at a time of widespread unhappiness over China's zero-COVID policies, while its economy cools amid uncertainties at home and abroad.
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And yet here you are, firsting. Logic dictates that you are lame. Go play in a fire.
Re:Firsted (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's take a glance at the ol' posting history...
And, holy shit.
COVID was made in a lab by mixing RatG13 and HIV? lol.
Ya, you're worse than a troll.
You're fucking scum.
Lacking a -1 Scum moderation, I think that -1 Troll is appropriate for you.
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Recently leaked emails from Fauci's "gang" specifically mention that the virus is RatG13 + 6 inserts from HIV that appear nowhere else in nature. Source? NIH. And you call me scum?
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I know no such email exists, because it's patently false.
No scientist would ever say, "exists nowhere else in nature".
It's nonsensical on its face.
You could say that RaTG13 and HIV share genes, which would be expected from viral recombination in a host that had both, but anyone who says, "exists nowhere in nature" is lying. Like you.
So, provide the source, or go play in a fire, pond scum.
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That is Mr. Cunt to you. I see your reading comprehension is spot on considering I said to go PLAY in a fire, not to die in a fire.
My initial reaction was correct.
Boosters (Score:3)
If only they would sort out where their boosters fall instead of leaving it to chance.
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I had a Falcon 9 booster burn up over my house once. It was pretty fucking awesome.
I reckon it would be less cool if it landed on it though.
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Ya, it would be less cool. I likely wouldn't have a house.
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Skylab was always intended to get boosted to a higher orbit for future use, but NASA got too busy with the shuttle. Then delays.
Being built out of a surplus rocket stage, it was pretty robust. Big too. Why so much of it survived re-entry.
The Soviet Salyut and Almaz stations were a bit smaller, and burned up more or less completely even during the (several) uncontrolled re-entries that took place.
It's been a while since the US and EU intentionally fired rockets such that the stages landed on people (did t
Just can't keep politics out of any China news (Score:3, Insightful)
Typical American smear, the last sentence was totally irrelevant.
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Typical American smear, the last sentence was totally irrelevant.
Are you suggesting that that there isn't unhappiness? Or that China's economy is going well? Or are you suggesting that this achievement isn't worth celebrating?
More likely you are a puppet account for Whinney the Poo's [sic] troll farm who just posts against any criticism of China regardless of how relevant it is.
Using science to celebrate achievement at a time of unhappiness has always been relevant.
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I think they were saying that, uhhh, lemme check- ya, that "the last sentence was totally irrelevant."
Which seems to check out.
Further you seem to kind of make their point... You instantly start foaming at the mouth and accusing them of being part of a troll farm under the control of some jackass Chinese dictator, thinking yourself clever by using a name that person apparently finds insulting or something.
Remonds me of the dumbfucks who go around saying democRATs and rePUGlicans
Re:Just can't keep politics out of any China news (Score:4, Insightful)
that "the last sentence was totally irrelevant."
Maybe you didn't read my last sentence. We have always celebrated achievement in a time of unhappiness. It is very much relevant and not slanderous in the slightest.
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We celebrate scientific achievements at all times, happy and sad.
What I found inappropriate was your injection of weird political slanders.
You can't have reasonable discussions with people when you're doing shit like that.
I get you don't like whatever the fuck the Chinese President's name is. But call the dude by his fucking name. Quit trying to troll people regarding him.
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It's called providing context and it is a reasonable statement given the news of what's happening in China right now. Feel free to read something else if you want to stick your head in your own bubble.
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When the lockdowns were at its height and in the news, that's really fine. I'm sure nobody has any problems with mentioning the unhappiness caused by the pandemic control measures. We are a reasonably free society with a reasonably free press, that is often introspective and self-critical when neccessary.
However, "at a time of over 100 million covid deaths in America" is a complete fabrication. That would be 1 in 4 Americans dead due to Covid, which is obviously not true. I can't support that type of lying.
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TFA says "a rare moment to celebrate" but there have been plenty lately, just from achievements in space. They built a space station, assembled it in orbit, and crewed it.
They are saying they want to do a moon landing in 2028. If we look at what they have been able to achieve so far, they have demonstrated many of the necessary technologies. They can launch plenty of mass, they can dock and assemble spacecraft in orbit, and they can sustain humans in space for far longer than needed for a moon mission. They
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Typical American smear, the last sentence was totally irrelevant.
Well AC, I'm going to guess you know jack and -expletive- about China. While I am happy that they've had this success, the world (especially China) is not like the Martian. While not as bad as the former USSR, this was a spectacle by a country that uses them to hide from it's own citizens. Also, as a country, China is a bit uncaring about their garbage and where it's going to fall.
Not anywhere near as bad as Russia some days... but... yeah... PEOPLE NEED TO BE MORE CAREFUL. Even the US and EU need to be
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Oh fuck off. This is news for nerds. Talks about space stations are core to the purpose of Slashdot. If you want politics go read Politico.
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No I didn't. You you're reading politics where none exists, and it was clear you didn't read my entire linked post either since there was zero politics in it.
But your post is an example of something completely irrelevant to a story. You should learn from that.
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I will quote you to demonstrate.
More likely you are a puppet account for Whinney the Poo's [sic] troll farm who just posts against any criticism of China regardless of how relevant it is.
Liars suck. Don't be one.
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Political slashvertisements for a regime that kills thousands for protesting. Classy.
Odds are you are an American since most people here are and even if you are not, any American who agrees with that sentiment needs to hear this whether they want to or not. Trump is a pathological liar but he occasionally manages to stumble onto a truth. One of those truths was when he pointed out that the US calling Putin a killer is the pot calling the kettle black: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/0... [cnn.com]. People didn't like hearing it but the US drone assassination program alone dwarfs any assassination campai
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People can protest that they don't approve of these drone strikes but if they then turned around and voted for Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden they effectively also gave these drone strikes their personal stamp of approval. I'll give Trump a little bit of credit for at least, just for once, not being a hypocrite about it
OK, let me work backwards here. Trump is the biggest fucking hypocrite of all of them, because he doubled down on "not so nice". Remember how we knew Obama had done a lot of drone strikes? That's because he created a policy of letting us know how many drone strikes he approved, which Trump rescinded. But before he did that, he was approving many more drone strikes per month than Obama, so it's reasonable to assume that overall he approved many more strikes. Saying Trump isn't a Hypocrite is literally the st
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I hope you are being paid for this bullshit by Putin and or Xi, because otherwise you are almost unbelievably gullible.
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Hey, while we were all cheering the US space program they were purposely fucking up most of a hemisphere to keep it compliant, including sponsoring coups against democracies. Some notable bits in other hemispheres too.
But China's human rights abuses deserve criticism. As do Saudi Arabia's, and the United States', and everyone elses' too.
So criticize the abuses and celebrate the legitimate triumphs. But drop the holy saviour fuck yeah 'murica shit.
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You seem to be unaware that simply reporting events is not "advertisement" for these events being good, bad or whatever. Are you an idiot?
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The internet does not make people stupid. It just makes gweihir's stupidity more obvious.
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Talk about a self-defeating comment...