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Groundbreaking Chinese astronauts return as heroes
By Stevie Smith Sep 29, 2008, 15:15 GMT
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Though I am a nobody from the frozen north it delights me that China is on the world stage. To all those hiden workers that never get recognition God knows you and I know you. You have done your work and pleased Him. The seeds of greatness are in all of you. Always keep your eye on Him.
Always wonder: what are your sources?
China went to space successfully. I don't deny it. But WHEN is the question.
Probably not this week end. But it doesn't bug you and you echoe the Chinese official news.
Maybe you should ask them to write your articles on human rights!
China the 3rd country for manned space flight. Kudos to China. So far so good, touch wood.
US, Russia no doubt pioneer and have tried so far with a lot of people killed for example US 2 Shuttle Challenger, Colombia blowing up, Russian shuttle launch blow up, overall so far 70 astronauts, & over 200 engineers killed.
About human rights, what can we say. For the country who talks a lot about human rights, from history civilization, the Chinese Admiral Zheng He travel around the world in peace and trade, friendship. But the British, Spaniards, Portugues, Americans...travel around the world with malice, hatred, racist, war & colonialism. And these are the people espouse human rights???? With their war mongering. Look at Iraqi women and children....still dying, with bombs and American hypocrisy still sucking the Iraqi oil dry. They do it so blatantly now even we see its obvious lies. And now they are bailing out greedy companies with their citizen tax money...so much for open economy. American hypocrisy knows NO LIMIT!!! Human right my ass....
Regarding 'Human rights is me' s comments-Poisoning children and pets for profit; jailing, beating and oppressing Buddhist monks and nuns; jailing, beating and opressing workers for human rights and honest government; and the corrupt building of schools which crumble and crush children are very recent highlights of Chinese brutality and corruption. Compared to that, the amusing premature release of bogus manufactured news about their space flight is a mere pecadillo.
I don't see any signs that Iraqi oil is being plundered for American benefit, either, considering that oil and gasoline prices are spiraling out of control in the US.
Tim Dunn more lies from another loser American eh? Your pathetic country has tried in desperation to steal Iraqi oil and turn it into a colony. ONly through the iraqi people's resistance has that been stopped so far. You are a piece of sh**. Not because you're an American. But because you know what you're doing is wrong and continue to try to justify it. Go china, we need another world power to balance the hatemongers in the west!!
I wonder if they drank any Chinese milk on there trip!
I don’t care about how China treats their own citizens, since it's not of my business. What I really care is China keeps bullying small neighboring countries. Never heard of Zheng He, but I know for sure most of Chinese travel the world just to spread poisonous communism and steal others’ national resources.
Please. We dumped billions into Iraq. They at least owe us that much in oil back- yet we haven't received a dime or much of a thank you for bringing them freedom. Hussein killed a lot more civilians than the Americans ever have or will. Get over it you pink-o commie.
You should be kissing our back sides for the millions of dollars we spend on your inferior products. We made China (and lots of countries) rich through our technology, jobs, and investments. You berate us on a internet blog- ah, the Internet, another American Invention. Does your computer have an Intel chip? Windows or Mac OS?
But hey, congrats on putting someone into space. We did that decades ago.
Congratulations China.
Is it just me, or does the CNSA logo look like it has its elements lifted from Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets?
If you really dig your nose into American society, you'll also find lots of greed motivated activities that such as substandard materials use in construction, tainted meat, substandard auto parts, and as far as american
morality is concerned, it has the largest number of people imprison in the whole western world. Lying and cheating are common events, so Mr. Clean, Iwould shout your mouth if I were you!
If you really dig your nose into American society, you'll also find lots of greed motivated activities that such as substandard materials use in construction, tainted meat, substandard auto parts, and as far as american
morality is concerned, it has the largest number of people imprison in the whole western world. Lying and cheating are common events, so Mr. Clean, Iwould shut your mouth if I were you!
why do they look just like the three monkeys : see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil?
How did they keep the rice from floating all about the capsule?
Anyone see that it's odd that these guys have to be in quarantine for a couple of weeks? Russia and the US doesn't do that anymore.
Re: Tim Dunn
According to your randomly thought out rebuttal, government and people do not support poisoning children and pets, and old school buildings that crumble during an earthquake. That's like saying the U.S. supports having tainted tomatoes, blackmailing countries to eat mad cow disease in order to do trade for profit, and having unsafe flood controls on the Mississipi or New Orleans during Katrina. If we get into sovereignty, N. America was taken by force from the Natives where N. American governments have been trying to silence them even today. Some of Western media has a derogatory and a fabricated view of China. Even U.S. propaganda about bogus flights to the moon where it would take more than another decade for the U.S. to achieve again (why is it so hard to do it 60 years later?). The real corruption is a $700 billion bailout to companies and banks that don't even deserve a penny. Some that dollars is putting more Iraqi oil money in the hole.
Hmm, it is true that native Americans have been treated badly. I think even the current government would agree with this when judging actions taken 100-300 years ago with today's standards of behaviour.
The Chinese government is always quick to point out our past dealing with native Americans as it tries to justify its *current* dealings with Tibet. I'm not sure their method or argument has any merit. One does not expect their doctor today to do blood letting although it was a common procedure in the 1700 and 1800s.
Concerning the number of people imprisoned in the US, I believe this is shameful. However, none of them are in any danger of being outright slaughtered, as seems to have been the policy in China on several occasions. I did not do a huge amount of research, but here is one statement of the figure:
Mao Ze-Dong (China, 1958-61 and 1966-69, Tibet 1949-50) 49-78,000,000
Why would it take the US time to prepare to go to the moon even though we made it there in 1969 ( 60 years? Not sure where the previous poster got that figure from. ) Well, we made a good decision to put more effort into near space activities and perhaps a poor decision to stop making the huge Saturn V rockets that made the original trip possible. The Shuttle program did a lot of good things, wasted a lot of money, and has very little to do with space above 250 miles. I'm still not clear why anyone thinks it's a good idea to go back to the moon, but China is welcome to go if they like.
The bail out is a shame, but it certainly is a better use of money than funding activities in Iraq. I'm a little puzzled why the thought, 'Gee, we have a lot of money we're spending there, could use it at home about now.' never comes up for reasonable discussion.
Yay, China! Welcome to 1969.
Unlike some comments, I wouldn't be so dismissive about China's efforts. It might be decades behind the USA and USSR but there is no denying that they have attempted so much in a relatively short period of time. 30 yrs ago, they were a backward 3rd world state. Today, they have become an economic powerhouse.
This spacewalk is just a baby step, and like the phrase, they are learning to walk before they run. Unlike the USA and Russia, they have placed space exploration or more importantly, the spin-off applications as one of their top priorities - coupling the technology with the economy for a long term foundation.
Moreover, with the USA denying them any co-operative effort with the ISS, it may force them to develop more of their own indigenous technology to cope. Although they have used the Russian Soyuz capsule and Orlan spacesuit as their model, they have experimented developing a ground-up approach in building the Shenzhou capsule and Feitian spacesuit, which was the main suit being tested.
Their plans are in decades, not years and provided nothing untoward happens, the methodical step by step approach will be like the proverbial tortoise beating the hare.
I agree that China's space agency logo looks a lot like the Starfleet logo. Two, it's about time China gets into the space race. No thanks to the billions of dollars the world gives it through trade, etc. I know we use our program for more militaristic purposes, i.e. spy satellites, etc. I am sure they will as well. Russia's space program wasn't all for peace. It, too, had many military missions.
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