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China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon

WindBourne writes "China will be launching 2 new space stations this next year. One is for their civil program (as run by the military), while the second is openly for the military. It appears that there will be multiples of the military version to be launched in 2010, and that they are developing the same US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) that was canceled in 1969. In addition, it appears that China is accelerating their timelines on a number of the earlier space announcements."

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  1. less red tape? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    isn't all their tape red?

  2. Re:You know whats ironic? by saintm · · Score: 5, Funny

    That isn't an example of irony at all, unless you are following the "Alanis Morissette" theory whereby anything can be called ironic without consideration of it's actual relevence to irony.

  3. China is calling it the Mobile Space Garrison by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or MSG.

  4. Re:Soviet space battlestations by nothing2seehere · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nonetheless, it's interesting to speculate about what might have happened in the end-stages of the Cold War if the Soviets had gained control of the high ground in this fashion.

    If quality control was so low that they couldn't even rotate it correctly, it probably wasn't anything to worry about. Besides, it had a well-known small thermal exhaust port, right below the main port...

  5. Re:You know whats ironic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Chinese government announced that over 7% of all domestic companies went out of business over the last year

    Of course, those are just the failed companies due to a crackdown by Blizzard. LOL

  6. Re:You know whats ironic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    if you can refute it with something besides "you're a brainwashed sheep," I'd be interested to hear your argument.

    Your a brainwashed duck!

  7. Re:China Copying US, Including Mistakes Made and N by Chris+Burke · · Score: 3, Funny

    And what happens when a) you get hacked or b) someone from the manned station next door comes over for a visit and unplugs a few things.

    a) Explode the space station.
    b) Explode the space station.

    And you didn't ask this, but the answer to what happens when c) you get bored of your stupid unmanned space station
    is

    c) Explode the space station.

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