Why the next man on the moon will be Chinese (?)
RichAsianKid
paragraph says it all.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/space-race-china-america-india
Why the next man on the moon will be Chinese
Alok Jha and David Adam
The Guardian, Thursday 2 July 2009
Richard Nixon and Apollo 11 astronauts
Since the crew of Apollo 17 returned from the moon in December 1972, no
human has ever left low-Earth orbit. Five space shuttles, scores of
Russian Soyuz capsules, the International Space Station, and more than
450 men and women have left the Earth since Apollo, but all have been
bound to a small shell of space just outside our atmosphere.
Any hope of an ambitious successor to Apollo might have been abandoned
altogether if it wasn't for George W Bush. In 2003, he announced plans
for Nasa to return to the moon by 2020 and then travel on to Mars by
2030. Once again, though, the US faces some serious competition. The
same year that Bush tasked Nasa with the 21st century moonshot, Yang Lee
Wei became China's first astronaut and, explicit or not, another space
race had begun.
"The attitude to the space programme in China is a little bit like the
attitude towards space exploration in the western world in the 1960s,"
says Kevin Fong, an expert in space medicine at University College
London. "There's a deep fervour among their university kids for space
technology. The main difference between China and America now is that
China can just do something - they don't need to ask permission or go
through a democratic process and get the budget approved."
This means that China can progress its space programme quickly; if it
wants to land on the moon - and many observers think it does - the
country could do it well ahead of 2020, the earliest possible date for
an American return.
China's only confirmed plans so far include launching another robotic
orbiter to the moon, probably followed by a robot lander and perhaps a
lunar rover. Beyond that, we might not find whether China wants to put a
person on the moon until it does it. Its successes are broadcast all
over the world, but its failures remain internal. That hasn't stopped
serious people taking it seriously, though: last year the former Nasa
administrator, Mike Griffin, said he believed China had the capability
to get to the moon and he wouldn't be surprised if the next person to
walk on the moon was Chinese.
"It's all very dark out there and you're not really sure how much
they're doing," says Fong. "They seem very serious about it and have
mature thoughts about it, from the little you see in their
presentations. They still have much to learn from the existing space
community and don't want to be too overt about their ambitions at risk
of looking like they've over-promised."
The Indians are also hot on the heels of the US. India worked on an
embryonic space programme with the Soviet Union in the 1970s and flew
its first cosmonaut in 1982. Today the budgets are relatively big -
around $800m a year and a 10-year plan for human spaceflight that has
committed funding of more than $1.2bn. It has already sent a robotic
probe to the moon, but there is still plenty to prove in terms of human
spaceflight - the country has indicated bold ambitions but has still not
revealed any confirmed details that it will send people into orbit,
never mind all the way to the moon.
The Chinese and the Indians have many advantages over the Americans of
the 1960s - they are starting well ahead of Apollo in terms of
technology. But it might not be technology that decides the winner.
Aiming for space is about more than understanding flight paths and
knowing the best rockets to use: moon shots are about taking risks. Fong
points out that the Apollo programme prioritised mission objectives over
life or limb. No one was complacent about the danger, he says, but since
most of the astronauts were former test pilots, they understood that
things can - and would - go wrong. The modern Nasa has inverted this
priority - today the astronauts' lives are absolutely more important
than mission goals. This will have to change if Nasa is to return to the
moon and, particularly, if it wants to send people to Mars. And perhaps
here China will have a clear advantage over the US.
And what about the Brits? This country has a fantastically successful
(if largely invisible) robotic space industry. And, against all the
odds, it has its first official astronaut in the shape of Tim Peake, an
army helicopter test pilot. Despite providing no funds for human
spaceflight, science minister Paul Drayson is optimistic that a British
astronaut could one day walk on the moon. "I hope so," he says. "We're
absolutely committed to space research, both manned and unmanned. It's
hugely aspirational and extremely challenging and helps us put things in
perspective."
baldeagle
>
> When "rights" bite back: the second half of this article's penultimate
> paragraph says it all.
>
> * * * *http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/space-race-china-americ...
> Why the next man on the moon will be Chinese
>
The first human on the moon was ...a weaving maid
from a village in China... She was the wife of a cow-
herd.
abia...@seductive.com
up. You talk cock!
baldeagle
ltlee1
Not the weaving girl. Her name is 嫦娥.
"云母屏风烛影深，长河渐落晓星沉。
嫦娥应悔偷灵药，碧海青天夜夜心。"
baldeagle
嫦娥 was her name...
rst0wxyz
wrote:
> Stupid Bird put that Nigger dick back in your mouth and shut the fuck
> up. You talk cock!
Such filthy language!!!! and ugly fatso tub of lard Philippino
whore!!! No wonder no one wants to fuck her.
the Fucking Boudha
n Jul 5, 2:53 pm, RichAsianKid <RichAsian...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> When "rights" bite back: the second half of this article's penultimate
> paragraph says it all.
>
> * * * *http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/02/space-race-china-americ...
RichAsianKid
> so , what is the BIG Deal ?
>
>
As you'll no doubt have noticed, my opinion is that 'rights' (and their
proliferation) may enervate and sap the strength of an enterprise. And
I'm hardly alone in that regard, as the second half of the penultimate
paragraph demonstrates.
And second, think, oh, say, 1492 equivalent. If China really really is
this incipient superpower, maybe it needs to bag a few things in its
pocket before it can claim or perhaps even aspire to such status. Hence
the (?) in the title.
bitter anko
> When "rights" bite back: the second half of this article's penultimate
> paragraph says it all.
>
If the Chinese ever stand on the moon, not the next man, it will be
the first man on the moon because no one ever stood on the moon in
human history. Don't forget that the funny Apollo 11 is merely an
immature trick fooling people.
RichAsianKid
Hmmmmm......
http://i29.tinypic.com/1zwn5g6.jpg
abian...@yahoo.com
Hey Psycho anko I guess you are really crazy! Maybe your dog doesn't
want to suck your little prick anymore. Haha! You are so dumb. You
should go to a shrink. I mean it. You are 一個變態的神經病人, 瘋人院里爬出來的.
> immature trick fooling people.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -
report2009
for revenge. You don’t even have balls be yourself. You are a coward
and freak! And stop insulting Thai and Filipino people!
Original abianchen: abia...@my-deja.com (since May, 2000).
Fake abianchen (psycho Tienxia): abianc*@yahoo.com, etc many various
abian*.*com.
On Jul 8, 10:26 pm, "abianc...@my-deja.com" <abian_ch...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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abian...@yahoo.com
Hey Psycho anko I guess you are really crazy! Maybe your dog doesn't
want to suck your little prick anymore. Haha! You are so dumb. You
should go to a shrink. I mean it. You are 一個變態的神經病人, 瘋人院里爬出來的.
> Hmmmmm......http://i29.tinypic.com/1zwn5g6.jpg- Hide quoted text -
baldeagle
>
> If the Chinese ever stand on the moon, not the next man, it will be
> the first man on the moon because no one ever stood on the moon in
> human history....
The Chinese was already on the moon!