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Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk
As_I_Please writes "At 8:40AM (GMT) this morning, Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7. This is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts to the moon."
This announcement brought to you by the freedom-loving Chinese Press at 7:20am.
I read about this last week on an English language Chinese news website.
That's probably why they broadcasted it "live" on TV?
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Since they like to make announcements of upcoming events as if they already occurred it's likely that they really mean that the the space walk is happening tomorrow.
http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/27/chinas-first-spacewalk-a-success-video/
"Zhai lifted himself through the hatch and waved at the camera attached to the service module on the outside of the craft, with Earth looming overhead."
"He then tried to take off the helmet for a 'nicer portrait shot'."
(After the implosion of his body, another astronaut from the 344 person manned spacecraft was sent to replace him.)
Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.
Chinese astronaut Zhang Ziyi successfully spent 18 minutes in a tethered spacewalk outside the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
My first thought, "that's pretty dangerous, in every movie she's been in, her clothes are ripped off suddenly and forcefully."
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Forgive my skepticism, but this is exactly the sort of thing that China commonly lies about.
Finally conspiracy tards will be satisfied, there really will be a faked moon landing.
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Just try not to kill everyone on the planet when you do it, mmmkay?
I think it's something about announcing imminent danger and WMD's, with detailed descriptions and sworn statements, when they don't exist. Sending armies to make war under false pretenses, swearing that enormous threats exist even after zero evidence is found that they exist. Tragically, the list goes on and on.
At some point, distrust and skepticism becomes the norm.
Your point is well taken that all governments lie. Some governments lie a lot about things that then cause a lot of unnecessary death, misery and anguish for others.
Still, their people get to keep driving Hummers, so that makes it OK, right?
The Bush administration did fake the Iraq war to scare Americans into voting Democratic. I am so sick of these liberal ploys to take over the white house.
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china faked a spacewalk and the US faked a moonlanding, US still ahead
Nothing to see here...
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!
and it should be noted that this time there was live video footage. and it would be a pretty stupid thing to try to fake a space mission. i mean, cheating in the olympics, or any other sports, is something that you can get away with (and i have no doubt that plenty of countries have gotten away with on many occasions), but faking a space mission is more along the lines of lying about achieving cold fusion. there's just simply no way you can deceive people about that for more than a few weeks or months at most. so unless they plan on being ridiculed by the world later, it would be a very stupid thing to do.
Oh, so you're one of those people who believe that the US landed on the Moon?
More importantly, because just recently, China announced the exactly same story http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/2145209 [slashdot.org] *before* they had even *launched*...
So you are saying the Chinese pulled a dupe?
Oh, and it's actually not a space walk. He actually use his hands to hold the handles on the ship to move towards the target. So it's really not a walk at all.
"These folks have done in 10 years what has taken over 100 in the US in terms of industrialization and economics."
Are you truly that stupid or are you chinese? Technology has changed by leaps and bounds when the US did it over 30 years ago. Plus the US did it purely from their intelligence and work, not based on stolen technologies and ideas that came from spying scientists sent to foreign countries to steal some more.