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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 is an important step in China's goal of building an orbiting space station and sending astronauts to the moon
Yeah, right. You've got a couple more steps before you can move into the Moon Base, speedy.
The same way the fireworks at the opening ceremonies of the Olympics were broadcast "live" ?
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
When they do something like this, they aren't thinking of the next quarter's profits or even the next year's.
Instead, they are thinking about the propaganda benefits. It's something they must do to remain in power, so in a way they are also thinking short-term. Their primary motivation is not the advancement of humanity but maintaining the iron grip on the peoples' minds. Soviets have been there before.
PS: I think this was not faked, because propaganda has not to lie at least sometimes to work.
Those who would give up liberty to obtain working drivers, deserve neither liberty nor working drivers.
The Chinese deserve due credit for their achievements, in space. However, their government lacks any kind of credibility and that diminishes what has been accomplished.
It took them 40 years to catch up with the other superpowers in accomplishing this spacewalk, which should serve to amplify the effects of their oppressive regime and communist philosophy overall.
The Chinese news agency will fabricate whatever suits them, so any narrative going along with this accomplishment should be ignored. Their Olympics wowed us with their faked opening ceremony, underage athletes supported with government-supplied cover stories, biased judging and who knows what else that went undetected.
How much slave labor is used in their space program is unknown. How much stolen and misappropriated technology they've used is unknown. How many people that were sickened, injured or killed by the hazardous materials and working conditions prevalent in their space program is unknown. But we already know that the authoritarian state of China would forbid dissemination of this information, and we know that there's no reason to believe that these kinds of sufferings of their people have not ceased. This is what tempers our enthusiasm for their achievement.
While perusing the conspiracy theories from the murkiest part of the deep end, I came across these two items. . . Please don't mod them down just yet; these ones I don't buy into completely, (well, not completely) and I present them more in the form of an interesting sociological "Hmmm". (Have you ever tried cataloging this stuff?)
Okay. So two items. . .
1. The U.S. is the largest experimental society today; can you control an entire people through technology and brain washing rather than force? How is it done and what are the advantages, if any?
2. Regardless of the outcome, the idea is that all Semitic and Caucasian people are just not suitable for the New World. They'll make good fodder and they can be used to run the meat-grinder, but when all the dust settles and the blood is hosed off the streets, the preferred genetic strain is what we see to have been bred in China and countries of similar genetic stock. Why? Get ready for it, and this is where your mod-muscles will twitch: "The Asian gene type is more suitable for population control. They're more obedient."
Just think: there are people in positions of power who live by these kinds of ideas. I've met some of them.
Here's a riddle: "How many elitists does it take to put a whack-job conspiracy theory into practical application?"
Answer: "None. They create an economic reality where the peasantry must obey or starve and then hire them to do it on their behalf."
On a totally unrelated note, Fallout 3 is coming out this October.
-FL