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China's First Lunar Satellite Sends Back Pictures
Fantastic Lad writes "Chinese leaders hailed images sent back from the country's first lunar satellite on Monday, saying they showed their nation had thrust itself into the front ranks of global technological powers. China plans to launch its third manned rocket, Shenzhou VII, into space in October 2008 and may send an astronaut on a space walk, a Shanghai paper said. But a space official downplayed plans to put a man on the moon."There are no plans at the moment to send anyone on to the moon. I've heard of foreign reports which say China will put a man on the moon by 2020, but I don't know of such a plan," said Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration. "Please don't give us any more pressure. But I'm confident one day we'll put an astronaut on the moon," he told a news conference."
because, and try to follow along with me here:
IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!
Don't lick these pictures, they might contain lead.
I'm still highly doubtful that anybody's been to the moon yet. If it was so easy to do on the first try, and in multiple subsequent trips by the U.S., then the U.S. should have been able to do the same thing by now, using technology that's better and cheaper than it was then. Don't give me some crap about inflation affecting costs. A 1960's radio, tv or computer costs nothing in today's dollars, and yet a 1960's moon lander is impossible to make. If the 60's-70's models were so good, why not make another one? Have you ever looked at pictures of the first moon lander? Do you actually believe it was capable of taking off from the moon once it got there? And why is it they never use the most powerful telescopes to show the landing site on the moon? I think this sort of belief in the moon landings is about as ridiculous as belief in religion. I'm not writing this as a troll, these are my actual thoughts on this and I'm wondering how many of you share these doubts...
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