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Chinese Team Heading for Coldest Spot on Earth

Posted by timothy on from the hey-it's-breezy-out-here dept.

LMCBoy writes "Dome A is the highest point on the Antarctic Plateau, and it has never been reached by humans. It is thought to be the coldest place on earth, and is certainly among the most remote. Yesterday, a team of Chinese explorers set out from Fremantle, Australia to reach Dome A and set up a robotic weather station which will monitor the local conditions for up to five years. The team is expected to arrive at Dome A in early 2005."

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  1. Re:Good for China! by ender81b · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Heh. The US science and R&D budget is probably bigger than China's whole national budget.

    As a matter of fact:
    China 2003 (world factbook)
    revenues: $265.8 billion
    expenditures: $300.2 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2003

    That would be China's entire National budget. Figures for US

    $275 billion - in 2001. Just in Science spending, from here. The US numbers are, of course, including private research - which, btw, is $57 billion in China. We're talking orders of magnitude here :).