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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."
Just to make sure, everyone tell Bush that if China gets a man on Mars first, that proves that the president of China has a bigger penis than the president of the US.
That could get Bush out of the WMD fiasco.
He can cite intelligence sources about the impending doom and get us all concentrated on stopping the Chinese PMD's. "Intelligence Sources tell us that the Chinese PMD program is an immediate threat to our top national insecurity and the threat is growing larger every day!"
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
There are now large ships that launch rockets. Use those in the middle of the ocean. Also, these nuclear rockets would be so overpowered by comparison they could launch AND LAND vertically (also in the middle of the ocean). Landing in such a way the re-entry footprint is very small.