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China Sending Two People Into Space
henrypijames writes "As reported widely in Chinese media, China has began production of and launch preparations for it's new Shenzhou ("divine ship") 6 spaceship. While being roughly equal in design to Shenzhou 5 which sent the first Chinese into space last year (although having capacity for three persons), Shenzhou 6 is supposed to carry two "Taikonaut" next year."
Your offensive, racist comment, should not have been moderated "Funny."
"I am a fictional character."
Hopefully this will revive the manned spaceflight programs all over the world, preferably in the form of true collaboration and not just let's-all-keep-reinventing-the-wheel kind of silly competition.
We need to get off this planet sooner or later and unmanned probes won't do that.
The owls are not what they seem
I'd be more impressed if China managed to provide a decent standard of living for all of its billion+ population. This is just me-too technology, the USSR did it (and its population suffered as a result, since it wasn't a rich country), the USA did it and more (and its population paid the price in taxes, but it could afford it, being a truly rich country), and now China is about to do just like the USSR and further starve its population to go up-diddly-up-up and perform stunts to impress other countries and amaze the press.
They're a bunch of circus clown, and putting priorities like that above their nation's welfare shows how much Chinese leaders are disconnected with the reality of their country.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
OK I know I'm gonna get labeled as a troll, but I still think the fact is that Kennedy's race to the moon had nothing to do with the desire for space exploration and everything to do with advancing and keeping one up on ICMB technology. The space program was just a nice side effect. The same could even be said of the hubble telescope, where I hear they have 6 of them up there, but rather than pointing up are pointing down as spy telescopes.
Now the same is true of China. They wanted space weapons cababilities, so they created a space program. It has more to do with Tiwan than space, and the US mission to Marz and the new recent push back into space has from Bush has more to do with China than any real interest or value they see in space.
I'm sorry, but that's just the way it is.
Funny? I know I'm not the first to speak up, as I have been beaten to the punch, but still--where do the moderators get off moderating this racist drivel as being funny? Mod me as a troll or redundant or whatever other crap you may, but when things like racism are funny while standing up for a sense of respect and tolerance for other cultures goes unnoticed or is determined to be trolling... that's just sad.
You know those Chinese multiply like rabbits: 2, 4, 8, 16 ...
If you were well-informed enough to hear of the Chinese one-child policy, you would have written "1, 1, 1, 1, 1...". And even then, you'd be leaving out all the instances where children were killed because they were girls.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
bah!
Russia has a 40-year-old soyouz, China has the most advanced manned space ship.. and America has NOTHING to put man into space!! only useless shuttles that are a dysmal failure.
Maybe it's because nationalism is the primary motivation for manned space missions?
I swear I witness so many bad chineese drivers, and I know some guys from China who agree with me on this one. They just don't know how to drive and when they cause some problem or an accident they don't even understand why it was their fault. There are other bad drivers too, but I most of the ones I see are Chineese
Yeah. All "Chineese" are bad drivers. Though I'd bet my last dollar that they could write in their native language better than you write in yours.
Now, you can moderate this as much as you want, but I take a stand, this is my imperical evidence.
You mean "empirical" right? And how is the act of "taking a stand" empirical evidence?
Oh wait, it's just your fucked up grammar.
Post about china and watch how american act like americans on slashdot.
I'm not only from europe, no, I'm also deeply impressed by your "funny" (+5, Troll) and your "Insightful" (+5, Flamebait) posts.
Truly a great moment for the american karma and how the rest of the world shall interpret it.
Maybe the Russians should focus on stable economy and try to stop government corruption. Maybe they should turn their efforts towards ratifying the Kyoto accord. Maybe the U.S. should focus their funds on 27 million children that still live below the poverty line instead of maintaining their nuclear stockpiles or stop destroying countries then giving them 87 billion dollars. Maybe the U.S. should reform their foreign policy to be compassionate and open. Maybe the European Union can focus on treating less developed countries, that were formally colonized by them, would treat them fairly and give them preferential treatment on imports. Give them an economic break and forgive their debt load. Maybe we should make this world a better place before we leave? Maybe not...
Give me a break, moderators
true, true.. but I've never heard Chinese claiming they're the "land of the free" or they have "best democracy"... and I've never heard Chinese trying to teach the others about human rights, free trade etc.
How the hell do you figure that English is my first language, asshole? Russian and Ukrainian are though, so fuck off, ok?
Oh, well that explains it then. You see, my empirical evidence seems to indicate that those with a Ukrainian background have terrible difficulty spelling "Chinese" and "empirical", and sometimes just darn well fuck up sentences all together!
Honestly dude, you're making sweeping generalizations as to a person's driving ability with respect to their race. People are people. Some people can drive well, others frequently fuck up. Some people can spell the names of the race they're trying to insult, others frequently fuck up.
So what's your deal?
For a supposedly atheist country?
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
yes, quite.
start raving about you much you love islam and bombs - let's see how free your speech really is.
Good point, although the reason the US enacted the embargos was because they were planning for the inevitability of war with Japan. It could also be argued that the embargos were effectively an act of war just as OPEC cutting off US oil supply would be today.
And Yamamoto's intention was that Pearl Harbor would destabilize and demoralize the US enough that when they entered the war they would not be able to quickly pose a threat. The reason he was authorized to do this was because of the embargo.
Ever hear of inflation?
25 billion in 1963 dollars is 143 billion in 2002 dollars.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
If you wait to solve all problems before exploring further, you never end up exploring further - EVER.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
I. The Constitutional System
The Constitution is the fundamental law of the state.
The existing Constitution was adopted for implementation by the 5th Session of the 5th National People's Congress on December 4, 1982. Amendments were made to the Constitution respectively at the 1st Session of the 7th National People's Congress on April 12, 1988, the 1st Session of the 8th National People's Congress on March 29, 1993 and the 2nd Session of the 9th National People's Congress on March 15, 1999.
I. Major stipulations in the Constitution in regard to China's political system
1. Major political principles in China
(1) The Communist Party of China is the country's sole political party in power.
The People's Republic of China was founded by the Communist Party of China which is the leader of the Chinese people.
(2) The socialist system
The socialist system led by the working class and based on the alliance of the workers and farmers is the fundamental system of the People's Republic of China
(3) All rights belong to the people
All the power in the country belongs to the people who exercise their power through the National People's Congress and local people's congresses at all levels.
The people manage the state, economy, culture and other social affairs through a multitude of means and forms.
(4) The fundamental task and goals of the state
To concentrate on the socialist modernization drive along the road of building socialism with Chinese characteristics; to adhere to the socialist road, persist in the reform and opening up program, improve the socialist system in all aspects, develop the market economy, expand democracy, and improve the rule of law; to be self-reliance and work hard to gradually realize the modernization of the industry, agriculture, national defense, science and technology so as to build China into a strong and democratic socialist country with a high degree of cultural development.
(5) Democratic centralism
The organizational principle for the state organs is democratic centralism.
(6) The armed forces of the people
The armed forces of the People's Republic of China belong to the people.
The tasks of the armed forces are to consolidate national defense, resist invasion, defend the country, safeguard the people in their peaceful work and life, take part in the country's economic construction and strive to serves the people.
(7) To govern the country through the rule of law
All individuals, political parties and social organizations must abide by the Constitution in all their actions and shall not be privileged to be above the Constitution or the law.
All acts in violation of the Constitution and law must be investigated.
The rule of law is practiced to build China into a socialist country with the rule of law.
(8) The system of ethnic regional autonomy
All ethnic groups are equal.
All prejudice and oppression against any ethnic group is forbidden. All behaviors harmful to ethnic unity and aimed at ethnic separation are forbidden.
2. The position and rights of the citizen in the political life of the country
(1) All citizens are equal before the law.
(2) The right to vote and stand for election
All citizens who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote and stand for election, regardless of ethnic status, race, sex, occupation, family background, religious belief, education, property status or length of residence, except persons deprived of political rights according to law.
(3) The freedom of speech and thought
All citizens enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, or assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration
(4) The freedom of religious belief
Citizens enjoy the freedom of religious belief.
No state organ, public organization or individual may compel citizens to believe in, or not to believe in, any religion.
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Simple Math: about 300 million people in the US total. (280 or 297 or something as of the last census) 27 is about 30. Now divide that out: 1 in 10 people in the US is a child living in poverty. For the sake of ease in math lets assume that the current life expectancy is 80 (it is about 76 last I checked) and define child as anyone 20 or less (close enough to 18). Which means 1 in 4 people in the US is a child. Combine that with 1 in 10, and that means half the children in the US are living in poverty! (Yes I rounded, but there is a spike in the US population of the baby boomer years, so rounding down to 1/2 makes more sense than up 1/3 in this case)
In short: I don't believe your numbers. They just don't fit in with the US I know.
"Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest that I am hard to turn" -- A Scots-Irish prayer
Well that was the arguement for cutting back the space program years ago. Focus on domestic issues, spend the money on domestic problems.
Unfortunately nothing has changed, but you currently enjoy the benefits of the space program, such as that computer you're currently typing on. How about a more efficient care (computer controlled fuel injection). How about better communications?
As for the Russians, tell me there isn't instances of corruption in any democracy? Hm? The Russians are only a short time into a democracy in comparison to the US, "stability" takes time. Ans speaking of economies, there is no such thing as a stable economy per se, as an economy is constantly in a state of flux - new ideas constantly change the financial landscape
Maybe the US should ratify Kyoto, since they effectivly killed it.
Sure lets turn the US into the world's largest welfare state - I'll bet you bitch come tax time, and I'll bet you'd bitch even louder if your taxes went up.
If you don't like US foreign policy vote for a different president.
If the US stopped meddling in other people's countries to serve their own self interest the world would be a better place.
"Every security scheme that is based on secrets eventually fails." - Steve Jobs
One problem with the modern American mentality (as I find it) is inability to think long term.
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It looks like fscked lawyers affected not just the corporate policies (where blowing a couple of thousand employees after a bad quarter is pretty much necessary in order to avoid getting sued by vultures like this: http://www.wfu.edu/users/palmitar/Courses/SecReg-
Tigers respect lions, elephants and hippos. Maggots respect no one. (C) S. Dovlatov
If 1 in 10 ppl in the US is a 'child in poverty', that makes approx 27 million children in poverty. Why go through the rest of the math? You seem to be taking the fraction of the answer itself.
And why is this figure a problem if there are only 70 million children in the US ?( source. Mostly poor people have more children than rich people, which is why you will have more than half the children in poverty.
All bow to his Noodliness!! His Noodle Appendage has touched me!
I swear I witness so many bad chineese drivers, and I know some guys from China who agree with me on this one.
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You know... the #1 way to propagate discrimination is by claiming that you know some guys who fit into the particular group in question and who say the same thing. That neither advances your argument nor does it make it right! What people--even those that belong to the group--say is totally irrelevant. This is true because some people are self-haters or feel subordinate to others (A good example are some blacks who were actually brainwashed to believe that they were inferior to whites in the 50's).
All blacks are dumb because I know some blacks who say so.
All whites are warmongers because I know some whites who say so.
All Asians are selfish because I know some who say so.
All women are idiots because some women admit it.
All Americans are dumb because I know some Americans who say so.
All Canadians are stupid because I know some who admit it.
All Latinos are criminals because I know some Latinos who agree with me on this one.
All Russians are corrupt because I know some Russians who agree with me on this one.
All Jews are greedy because I know some Jews who agree with me.
All Christians are dumb because I know some who agree with me.
I hope you see what I mean...
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