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China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch
Ironsides writes "After faking the fireworks at the Olympics this year, one would have thought China had learned their lesson. Now, it appears they announced the success of their manned space mission before liftoff even occured, complete with dialogue."
Nothing like a guaranteed success
It looks like we'll be seeing $2 time machines imported from China any day now....
Also leaked was a transcipt for their prospective moon landing...
Shenzhou 11: Base this is Shenzhou 11. Shenzhou has landed. Jesus H. Christ Base, We're on the fucking moon. Over.
Base: Roger, Shenzhou, we copy you. We cannot believe you are on the fucking moon. Repeat: Cannot fucking believe it. Over.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Yeah, but because of timezones, it's already tomorrow over there, right?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
You didn't get the memo?
That announcement was yesterday.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Don't they celebrate the new year before that happens too?
I figure that's what's happening here.
My memory must be slipping. I could have sworn they announced it next weekend.
I'm not sure I believe the video either.
Personally, I'm not all that impressed by this incident. The Chinese lied about putting people in orbit? Please. Our government faked an entire moon landing. They have a long way to go before they'll catch up with us.
..and they have the ability to launch them within 45 minutes.
Everything.
This is a PR stunt for the US's eyes and ears. Look out! We're not longer the big dogs on the block! We're fat and slow and the Chinese Food eating Astronauts are going to catch up!
But not to worry! Because they can never pack enough food! An hour of eating their space food, they'll be hungry again!
Ron Paul!
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
But we've always been at war with East Asia!
Pilot: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Ground Control: We get signal.
Pilot: What !
Ground Control: Main screen turn on.
Pilot: It's you !!
Technician: How are you gentlemen !!
Technician: All your base are belong to us.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
No, no, you should have said "Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter"
With made in china on the bottom...
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
There's really not much to see. The video of the spaceflight was pieced together from Thunderbirds stock footage. But I will give them credit for photoshopping the strings out.
Take off every Sig. For great justice.
It fell. Pretty obvious really, moon is up there, we are down here. That's how gravity works. The moon's pretty unstable - look at how it keeps changing shape. Amazing anything really stays up there. I believe they tried to throw it back but it just fell again.
They use rorem ipsum instead.
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No - the breakdown was real, and it will has been fixed in 9 months time.
-- Dr Dan Streetmentioner
The difference between dummy text and "deception" is that the dummy text is not supposed to end up published. It seems likely that this article was published by accident, which makes it likely that this is in fact dummy text. I did not read any part of the parent's post that defended the publishing of propaganda.
Perhaps you wrote your reply in advance, not reading what you replied to, and accidentally posted it.