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China's New Military Space Stations Coming Soon

Posted by timothy on from the aloha-up-there dept.

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. Re:You know whats ironic? by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    are you being ironic?

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    intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
  2. Re:You know whats ironic? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    At the same time, while China is the evil empire persecuting Tibetans, Israel is "just defending itself".

    The Chinese liberated the Tibetan people from barbaric serfdom. The Tibetan people lived in the stone ages, and were brutally oppressed by the Dali Lama, who was raised from childhood to feel he has what basically amounts to the divine right of kings. Now he goes around the world preaching nihilism while the Chinese bring eduction and social development to the people he used to oppress.

    China was the best thing that could have happened to Tibet.

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    -1 Uncomfortable Truth
  3. Re:You know whats ironic? by ShieldW0lf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Honestly? I agree that the Tibet - China issue is a lot more complicated than evil communist takes over peaceful buddhist community, but I think saying China was the best thing that could have happened to Tibet is going a bit far don't you think?

    Not really.

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    -1 Uncomfortable Truth