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China Accelerates Mars Program
securitas writes "You read it correctly - Mars. China has announced it intends to accelerate its Mars program, using experience and expertise from its fledgling lunar program. Following China's proposed Moon missions, the first phase would send a Mars orbiter to examine and survey the Red Planet; the second phase will involve wheeled robotic probes like China's Mars Explorer roving vehicle prototype, used to collect and analyze rock samples; and the third phase will involve returning spacecraft from the planet and establishing a permanent automated base on Mars. This puts the China-India space race and the China-USA space race in a very different light and clearly indicates that China plans to play with the big boys of Mars exploration."
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Mao Tse Tung, Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Pinochet, Mussolini, Marshall Joseph Tito, Slobodan Milosevic, Idi Amin, Ho Chi Minh, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Qaddafi, Juan Peron, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ferdinand Marcos, General Suharto, Pol Pot, Fransisco Franco, and certainly the worst of the bunch, SLASHDOT's editing/moderating [read: censoring] "community"(*) ALL AGREE on ONE THING:
(*)Note, the word community used often on Slashdot, this is referring to a proto communist commune.
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So, you busy little plebian proletariats, get busy, you have some censoring to do! FUN! Do the bidding of your fat, undisciplined masters who never subject themselves to peer review.
Good job you little neo-commies. Don't want to hear the other side, shoot the fucker in the head as an ENEMY OF THE STATE [In this case anyone who seeks to improve the sad state of
A few haikus to commemorate the sucktitude:
Crack Pipe Moderators
Crack smoke wafts though air
Dumb shit moderator!
Try to suck less, please
The Humorless Moderator
Crack smoke wafts through air
Humorless moderator!
Why do you hate me?
The Proletariat
Slashdotting Commie
Moderator fears new idea!
Censor him quickly
The reason China blocked Slashdot is that when Jiang Xemin saw at how good "The Editors" at Slashdot are at suppressing the community, he knew that if more of his party members saw this degree of suppressive efficacy, he would be deposed, for the good of the people, of course, in favor of Rob Malda as the all new supreme dictator and premier of China.
I have a Gun and the Constitution [Not the urinated-on pissed-on hacked fucked up one WashingTOON thinks exists, I mean the real one, with Jefferson and Madison at my side], please, give me an excuse to use them both.
SAYINGS, quips et al:
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. - Sir Winston Churchill (Especially when your democratic peers twist democracy into a reason commit cencorship, to squash dissenting or unpopular opinions, and refer to them as trolls, flaimbait overrated or offtopic when they aren't any of the said)
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. - Jay Leno.
The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of governement. (Death to those who defile the root documents of a free nation to make economic freedom Supercede Freedom! Freedom First! Free market Second!)
Occam's Razor "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily." "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" "Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora" "Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem" Translation: " "Simple explanations are preferred to complex ones" Modern fucking translation "JUST DO IT."
Reading Slashdot at anything above -1 is like trying to put a shit filter on your ass.
Get busy moderating this down, you little pack of obedient prefects of the corrupt state! You are the vanguards of purity, and dissent is not allowed!
Look at you you little birdie tweeting away. Politicizing against Bush because you are a cortexless brain stem barfing out the liberal lies you are spoon fed. Bush: the guy who funded Project Prometheus and INSPI. [You don't know what those are, and I don't give a shit.]
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Ok, troll, I'll bite.
1. I'll politicize against whomever I want as it is my 1st Amendment right to do so.
2. I politicize against Al Gore and Bill Clinton, too. I'm an equal-opportunity politicizer.
3. Projct Prometheus and INSPI seek to use nuclear power for space propulsion. While they might be useful for a manned mission to Mars, there is a broad range of other applications, including unmanned missions to various parts of the solar system and perhaps beyond. And INSPI was established in 1985 according to their website, so I don't know where you get the idea that funding INSPI was Bush's idea.
4. I'm not a liberal in the sense that you imply. I am, however, a card-carrying member of the Libertarian party, although I'm not strictly party line on every issue.
I care about beating the Chinese. This has nothing to do with Bush and more to do with morons like you who drag politics into science to serve your own twisted purpose. Bastard.
Good for you. Not everyone agrees with you. It's a fact of life. And politics necessarily have to be dragged in when talking about NASA because it's a government program. Just like politcs have to necessarily be dragged in when talking about the military, social security, the IRS, or any number of other government programs.
And to address your negative view on the America space program. Couldn't get a job at NASA if you tried. You aren't even close to the brilliance level to do anything technical there. You are a button monkey troglodyte flapping his lips and doing nothing.
What does my employability at NASA, or lack thereof, have anything to do my negative view of the American space program? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
My journal has hot
Here in the US, there are now two reasons to celebrate TOOT SWEET.
"Modded Down by Bigots since 2002"
"Mandatory pimpin'"
I would think a more accurate version of the truth, is that you're modded down for being an insecure idiot. You give hate, you get hate. Change your tune, my friend.
Posted anonymously for fear of said idiocy...