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China Announces Launch-Success Details — Before Launch

Posted by timothy on from the china's-government-!-china dept.

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."

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  1. What's next, a fake moon walk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nothing like a guaranteed success

    1. Re:What's next, a fake moon walk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      They are going to hire Michael Jackson to train their astronauts to avoid that problem.

  2. I can't wait. by darinfp · · Score: 5, Funny

    It looks like we'll be seeing $2 time machines imported from China any day now....

    1. Re:I can't wait. by charlie763 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Expect to see them last week.

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  3. Also leaked by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  4. Timezone thing? by HtR · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, but because of timezones, it's already tomorrow over there, right?

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  5. Re:And tomorrow they'll announce by Bwana+Geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    My memory must be slipping. I could have sworn they announced it next weekend.

  6. Re:Funny stuff. by flyingsquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Yes, but this wasn't a prep piece by OneIfByLan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, and the obituary of every major public figure has already been written as well. Such prep pieces are responsible practice for newspapers that have to be ready on-the-spot.

    This wasn't one of those pieces. This was an entire narrative complete with faked dialogue and details, such as being complete ahead of schedule. This wasn't preparation -- this was deception.

    Unfortunately, lately we seem to have absolutely no room to talk, given the practices of our own "You-have-to-give-me-700-billion-dollars-right-now-no-questions-asked-or-there-will-be-disaster" government.

    1. Re:Yes, but this wasn't a prep piece by level4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Exactly. Any major news company does this kind of thing if there's a big event coming that they know about; it's just part of being prepared.

      You can just imagine how it went down - ask an intern to draft a victorious announcement. Jazz it up with some dialogue, use your imagination, etc. Sure, posting it ahead of time was pretty dumb, but hardly the huge conspiracy of deception that the summary makes it out to be - how exactly could you fake a successful rocket launch, anyway? Or more so - hide an explosive failure?

      Ridiculous. It's much ado about nothing. I bet this happens every day.

      And as for the "fake fireworks", I have another revelation for everyone - did you see that man who ran in the air all around the stadium? See him? Well, prepare to have your mind blown. Are you ready? Sure you're really ready? OK, get this:

      He wasn't really flying!

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  8. Re:WTF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They use rorem ipsum instead.