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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."
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If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!
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Hope they drive spaceships better than cars...
"Shenzhou 6 is supposed to carry two "Taikonaut" next year."
I bet the people on the space station were getting tired of american and russian food. I never had taikonaut but its probably good...
Two Chinese? Well, I guess they better get started if they're going to one day move their whole population through space.
God Bless America, with the worst crime levels in the first world
God Bless America, where "democracy" means a rich, white male as President
God Bless America, the biggest consumer of the world's natural resources
God Bless America, so happy to violate international laws
God Bless America, where "freedom of speech" means race-hate groups like KKK
God Bless America, and its massive and ever-growing poverty gap
God Bless America, with barely 300 years of dire history and culture
God Bless America, all its appalling "sitcoms" with no grasp of irony
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God Bless America, wasting billions to attack foreign countries
God Bless America, and thank God I don't have to live there.
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They'll destroy your country!!!
You know those Chinese multiply like rabbits: 2, 4, 8, 16 ...
Hopefully this will get the US to start a space race with China! 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.
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I notice that nothing is said about bringing them back.
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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."
They are sending two people so that they can drive the carpool lane. (HOV lane) !!
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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.
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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.
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Stereotypes aside, all of you read this a pictured s guy delivering chinese food to the ISS.
:)
I'm guilty too...
-B
Up till now China has only sent people into England, in the back of trucks. This is a definite improvement
snippet from Wikipedia's listing for the Shenzhou - lots more in the link!
Design
Like the Soyuz, the Shenzhou consists of three modules; a forward "orbital" module, a reentry capsule in the middle, and an aft service module. This division is based on the principle of minimizing the amount of material to be returned to Earth. Anything placed in the orbital or service modules does not require heat shielding, and this greatly increases the space available to the spacecraft without increasing weight as much as it would if those modules were also able to withstand reentry.
The orbital module contains space for experiments, crew-serviced or operated equipment, and in-orbit habitation. The reentry capsule contains seating for the crew, and is the only portion of the Shenzhou which returns to Earth's surface. The aft service module contains life support and other equipment required for the functioning of the Shenzhou. Two pairs of solar panels, one pair on the service module and the other pair on the orbital module, have a total area of over 40 square metres, indicating average electrical power over 1.5 kW (three times that of Soyuz and greater than that of the original Mir base module).
Unlike the Soyuz, the orbital module was equipped with its own propulsion, solar power, and control systems, allowing autonomous flight. In the future the orbital modules could also be left behind on a Chinese space station as additional station modules. In the unmanned test flights launched so far, the orbital module of each Shenzhou was left functioning in orbit for several days after the reentry capsule's return.
Don't we have a huge self-contained, furnished, International Room With a View in orbit already? Why don't they plan to just build on to that and add at least a recroom. Ping pong in 0g.
It would be a great way to ease the tension of this whole nuke issue.
If it takes as long to deliver my take away last night please help the spacemen .LOL
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.
I hope china builds a nuclear powered rocket like some of the designs discussed at http://www.nuclearspace.com/ . Then the defence industry in the US would overide the environmentalists.
Just like a submarine, its crazy not to use nuclear.
So two Chinese, seven Americans, and a Russian were flying in space...
In case you were wondering like me ...
"Taikong" is a Chinese word that means space or cosmos. The resulted prefix "taiko-" is similar to "astro-" and "cosmo-" that makes three words perfectly symmetric, both in meaning and in form. Removing "g" from "taikong" is to make the word short and easy to pronounce. On the other side, its pronounciation is also close to "taikong ren", the Chinese words "space men".
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Bomb them all from the moon! We must not allow a mine shaft gap!
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Read the mini article, but it sure didn't say much...
- Five to seven day mission doing what?
- Their coming space station will be carrying out what experiments?
- Why aren't they using the already functional International Space Station?
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they're *blasting*...
China, which last year became the third nation to blast a man into space...
it's funnier.
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not a troll
We should convince UN to form a special conflic-resolution commission for cases like that and put, um, I dunno, maybe Monical Lewinsky in charge.
You're only 43 years behind the rest of the world...
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Please take Nader and Bush with you. Save some money too, don't worry about the descent back to Earth.
What's actually happened is the government has outsourced NASA to a country with cheap labor, a real work ethic and a better educational system, namely China
Where did you get the translation "divine ship" from? I bet it's not official. For it's hard to imagine a communist country with such "divine" nomenclature.
In fact, "Shenzhou" rhymed with "Shenzhou", which literally means "China".
Apparently the Chinese did not pay any attention to last week's Slashdot story about how America has claimed space for its military, and they also apparently ignored what happened in Iraq or otherwise they would know what happens to countries that act aggressively towards us. Tread carefully, China. Tread very carefully.
You praise everything Indian done, but make tasteless joke about China :( When Qin Empire come, be scared, be very scared
... as space is the ultimate high ground on military thinking and United States is publicly touting to build space-based weaponry to maintain supremecy.
This is just the beginning of next arms race, even India is building nuclear attack platform in space.
Arms control is dead, welcome new instability.
There is a Reuter report on CNN online, with practically the same information as the Xinhua report.
I have told you people to stop making fun of Karl Rove!!!!
Show more respect!
1: Is the charge of delivering the bill added to the cost of the bullet used to execute someone?
2: Why does China continue to destroy/level churches that it doesn't like?
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.
I know you're kidding but Eastern and especially Communist collectivism is precisely why China could easily beat the West to a manned Mars mission: get the taikonauts to Mars without worrying how to bring them back. If you figure it out later: great, then you get to tell the West "I told you so". If not, give them the Order of Labour Glory or whatever.
Give me a break, moderators
I find it offensive that the first thing slashdot thinks of in a case like this is delivery food!
-B
Me too. I also had this problem with my video card. I'm not sure if the drivers were chinese or made in Taiwan, but sure they didn't work as expected!
"All your planets are belong to us!"
Yes, that's right. It's the year of the monkey, and the sons and daughters of the dragon will soon be sending the next Wong Fei Hung and Fong Sai Yuk into space to demonstrate the greatness of the Chinese nation and make it plainly obvious for all that China is not the sick man of Asia.
-1 Offtopic, not +1 Informative,
plus, it wasn't even accurate. 2,4,8,16 *is* exponential. Sure the series can be viewed in a variety of ways given it is so short, but one of the obvious ways is exponential.
The US can't afford to send people to Mars but we can afford to send 2 chinese into space?
62 percent of all shoes and sneakers imported to the United States are made in China. So are 83 percent of all toys and sporting goods, 54 percent of all leather products, 76 percent of all umbrellas, 30 percent of all furniture, and one in four caps and hats.
The US China trade deficit is about $82 billion dollars (last time I checked) and the Apollo program only cost about $25 Billion.
I'm not sure what my point is but I'm sure there is one.
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them
Nobody goes to stars but in space, therefore astronaut is a wrong and misleading word.
Spacenaut or Cosmonaut are better words, after all, people go into space (cosmos).
What does Taiko mean? (space or star?)
What is the Chinese equivalent of Spacenaut?
... with only one landing module designed for three people...
(someone has to come up with an ending now)
You can't handle the truth.
Ouch!
Cosmos is a Greek word not a Russian word
Astro comes from Latin not from English
Naut comes from Greek (Navigator, Navigation, all these words come from Greek)
Racial based humor is not, logically, indictive of racism.
In other words, the answer to the question where do the moderators get off moderating this racist drivel as being funny? is; Because the think it is funny!
Get some looser shorts, man. I am guessing that one of the differences between my post and the parent, was that I smiled more while writing mine.
Moderators: Mod this however you like, it's your mod point.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Private land ownership has been legal in China since 1987. Yes, that's right, before it was legal in Russia.
Go China,
Go China,
It's your birthday,
It's your birthday..............
For a supposedly atheist country?
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
The US was very close to entering the war when Pearl Harbor occured. The only reason Yamamoto permitted Pearl Harbor is that he was hoping it would take out enough US hardware that Japan could hold out. If the Japanese believed that the US were going to stay out of the war, they would have happily let them.
The only reason capitalist governments need taxes, is that they need to buy stuff that's being produced by private industry. If all the production is public, then the government doesn't need to use money internally at all. A communist government redistributes the gains of labour the same way a socialist government redistributes income.
well said.
hope they dont bring sars to the space :p
Standard of living is an ends in itself (well, maybe for Americans), it's a measure of quality of life potential. However, quality of life can be raised by factors other than increase of income; factors such as a better environment or more available technology.
You don't try and feed a billion people by having them all sustinence farm -- you have a few of them farm and a few of them build fertilizer to help the farmers and a few of them build computers to help the chemists build the fertilizer to help the farmers and a few of them to build shiny things to trade for resources the engineers need to build the computers to help the chemists build the fertilizer to help the farmers. And how do you get better at building shiny things? Go to space.
full of blind american trolls.
Back in soviet china anyone can fly to space.
I for one welcome our new Taikonaut overlords.
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.
Are these dissidents?
How many are they planning on bringing back?
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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.
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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.
I have an irrational feeling that Kerry will be a bad President.
Unfortunately, I don't see a good Democratic candidate this season.
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You tell it yourself - it was for geopolitical goals.
And it is a long term investment that will allow USA to survive in 20 to 40 years prospective.
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These are really old.
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1. TASS news - there was a collision in the orbit between Soviet and Chinese spaceships. Two cosmonauts have died on the Soviet ship; three cosmonauts and twenty two stokers/firemen died on the Chinese one
2. China has launched a new satellite.
Two thousand people strained themselves during that launch
While this message sounds like a flaimbait, it really isn't. I personally admire Chinese civilization, and hope that the West will adopt a bit more than just Chinese food. For example, qigong and Daoist sexual techniques.
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Na, just make sure that the two crew members are Either a real hot woman and some guy, or two hot lesbians and the mission will pay for it self:-)
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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.
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Can I get "Wah-fucking-Wah" moderated as "Insightful" please?
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Why did they send only one on a three person craft ?
Obviously, to return with aliens in the free seats.
You understand now, Scully ?
I'm still trying to figure out what people mean by 'social skills' here.
There are far more natural and strategic resources in Antarctica. And shit
I have YET to see any serious proposals to colonize antarctica despite being heavily laden with resources, containing a natural breathing atmoshpere, being WAY warmer than the moon, and being MILLIONS of times cheaper to exploit.
Manned space travel IS cool. That's about the extent to it's benefits.
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A space elevator could eventually make it safe and affordable to jettison nuclear waste it the cosmos!!!!
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I'm glad to see that the US isn't the ONLY country willing to waste BILLIONS on useless weapons technology.
Whats the difference between a satellite nuclear launcher and a submarine launcher ??????
Give up
Oh yeah, and a couple hundred billion dollars
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and hope that the West will adopt a bit more than just Chinese food. For example, qigong and Daoist sexual techniques.
Were those the techniques that rendered practicers so out of control of their dicks that they MEGA overpopulated their countries?????
If so, keep that shit in the east. I don't want to live in a United States with 1 billion people.
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Or perhaps I'm mis-remembering. Not that it really matters with that crazy old codger. But hold on. Let me look it up. .
After all, Whites and Blacks are too bloody individualistic and prone to complaining and fighting back and such. The Asians will make much better slaves to our new ____ overlords, (who I for one welcome. .
Consider the ancient wisdom. . . "The Nail that stands up Will be Hammered Down."
When a society carries that kind of programming, which is in full evidence, not to mention the slighter builds, etc., and the various other preconditioned behavioral traits which make for crazy-hard workers and people who readily accept crud living conditions and tyranny and various bullshit on a massive scale. . . Yep. All of that screams, 'Slave Race'. Heck. Look at Japanese idea of sex; What's with all the bondage? Ego problems, anyone? Feel so un-confident in your masculinity and personality that you realize the hopelessness of actual mating and that unless she's tied down you're just not going to be procreating any time soon? No comment.
Of course, your bug/lizard/alien/whatever overlords are going to propel a race like this to the top of the food chain. --And kill off the frickn' Americans! They're too much trouble. Same with the Australians and the Jews. Contain them each on their own continents and blast 'em!
What? You think the strong are being set up for a massive fall purely by accident? Heck no! We're being deliberately manipulated into castrating the strong to make way for the new off-world managerial staff.
You think I'm kidding? Pshaw! Think again. I've even got the tin-foil to prove it! (Well, I don't actually. Tin-foil doesn't actually do much. Not owning a cell phone or eating shit food or doing legal/illegal drugs, or believing TV lies or wasting away in front of idiot video games. . . These are better methods of keeping one's head clear, I'd say. But the Tin Foil was a good idea!)
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What does any of this have to do with space technology?
Stay sentient. Don't drink bad milk.
this is just speculation. nader will doubtless get far fewer votes than last time. It's too early to tell how people will vote; but by all indications nader is going to get a FAR smaller vote than last time around.
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Yeah, I also read that editorial column that you whored for a little karma. No sources cited. Shame, shame on you.
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From an article dated October 14, 2003:
The mission will also herald the debut of authentic Chinese food in space, another Web site reported.
"They'll be able to eat shredded pork with garlic sauce and kungpao chicken," China.com, said. "It will be more tasty than Western food. After the meal, green tea will be available to increase the astronaut's spirits."
How can this be modded to zero! You have got to be kidding me! Mod parent up. This is not flaiming! This is a legitimate point of view which makes perfect sense. Don't mod down just because it is a negative view. This needs to be there to balance the represented view points.
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Stupid troll, you know nothing about the Chinese society.
These techniques were for the aristocrats only, and it is your luck that you can read about them in a book that you can get from a regular bookstore.
However, you're so dumb that you won't use this opportunity to improve yourself.
And here about the causes of the overpopulation: http://sqft87.pisem.net/tiger/civilwar.html
Their culture has not shifted towards the K-strategy yet. Actually, it has pretty much shifted because of the Communists' policies, and current growth happens not because of the fertility rate but because people live longer.
Another couple of dosens years, and the population there will start slowly shrinking.
Tigers respect lions, elephants and hippos. Maggots respect no one. (C) S. Dovlatov
No, you can go to the fed aid sites and see what programs are offered. 100-200+ per month in food stamps, medical care for your kids, aid from community/religios orgs, Goverment housing assistance and other related programs.
In the past I have been rather poor so I know what it is like? How about you, every been there?
I think there's something else frightening away the silly moderators. . . At least I rate bad moderation rather than ridicule this round. That's usually a sign that I got past the first layer of, "NO, NO! DO NOT THINK," programming.
Anybody too frightened to consider whole idea sets is a coward on a leash.
-FL
I recall that The Economist (amoung others) made the interesting point that the best estimates for the cost of the Chinese space program is pretty much the same as the amount of direct foreign aid given to China by other nations.
"In the USA most of them live that way because they want to"
Yaaa! I live in the USA and i know all poor people are poor because they want to!
CIA Factbook 2002 (US):"Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households
At the rate NASA is deteriorating and the China space programming, China will the the pre-eminent space power in 10-15 years.
Ed Lu was up there for six months n 2003; Leroy Chiao is going up in the next round.
The US has had 17 deaths in US spacecraft (3 in the launch pad fire, 7 on Challenger, 7 on Columbia), and 280 people have flown in US spacecraft. (seeAmerican Astronauts )
Death rate for those flying in US spacecraft:
6.0%
6% is an EXTREMELY high death rate for any "safe" activity. Sure, when something breaks, NASA tells us that space travel is still unsafe and experimental, but their actions belie their words: they think it's safe enough to fly three senators and a teacher.
By comparison, I did some checking on US wars back to the Civil War; the killed-in-action rate for the war is lower than 6% in every case. That's right, boys and girls, you're more likely to be killed in a US spacecraft than by an enemy bullet in a war. In the US civil war, if you consider deaths from disease, and if you consider the Confederate army also, the death rate is a whopping 19%, so war is not all fun and games.
On the other hand, since a failure generally kills everyone aboard and doesn't leave you wounded, we could look at the percentage of "dead" missions. I'm not sure exactly what to count as dead; would Apollo 13 count, for example? A quick and dirty calculation for the shuttle program is 2 (number of destroyed shuttles / 107 (number of shuttle missions). This is less than 2% and is comparable to the KIA rate in the Viet Nam war.
I'm glad you think I'm so stupid. It was actually a joke. And I don't care if it IS offensive.
I could really give a shit LESS about what caused deeper socialoligal phenomenon influencing China's overpopulation. But I'm still 100% sure it was too much fucking.
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