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China: The Next Space Superpower
the_newsbeagle writes "'As 2014 dawns, China has the most active and ambitious space program in the world,' says this article. While it's true that the Chinese space agency is just now reaching milestones that the U.S. and Russia reached 40 years ago (its first lunar rover landed in December), the Chinese government's strong support for space exploration means that it's catching up fast. On the agenda for the next decade: A space station to rival the ISS, a new spaceport, new heavy-lift rockets, a global satellite navigation system to rival GPS, and China's first space science satellites."
Hardly. There weren't any Asian characters and they only used Chinese swear words because the frelling smegheads were too lazy to make up some fake swear words.
China blew up one of their own satellites 7 years ago.
Tic-Tac-Toe, Global Thermonuclear War, and relationships all have the same winning move.
Until someone blows up a satellite, there's no "power" in space.
Both the US and China have blown up satellites in space from the ground within the past few years using missiles. I'm quite sure Russia could manage the trick as well if they felt like it.
Nope, just laziness and complacency from the rest of the world.
http://rhk111smilitaryandarmspage.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/unrestricted-access-to-the-pacific-ocean-what-china-wants-part-one/
As someone who normally tries to counterbalance the inaccuracies regarding China i think you might be mistaken.
I was in china a few years ago and went out of my way to visit Rural areas and they are literally "dirt poor". Granted i have never been in the southeast but its hard to imagine anyone still living like that in north america.
Next time you are in China drive a few hours out of any city and stop by to visit the locals in the area.
From Wikipedia:
USA NASA annual budget: $17.7 billion, and that is just the NASA budget, the US Air Force Space budget is another $8 billion.
China CNSA annual budget: $1.3 billion.
Total pending by all national space agencies: $40.6 billion.
So the NASA budget is over 10 times that of CNSA and almost as much as all the other nations' programs put together. Considering that the US GDP is only about twice that of China's, then the NASA budget is a far larger percentage of the US GDP than the proportion that CNSA is of China's.
Citation on "dont even have a postal address system" or were you just to lazy to even look it up?
You mean like the US Zip, or enhanced zip+4 system?
Seems they use a similar system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes_in_China
PSS :
The postal service in China can be dated back to the Shang Dynasty ( 1766 BC to 1122 BC)
Seems they may have addressed their "postal address system" in that time.
The beauty of using the U.S., Russian, and Chinese GPS systems simultaneously is that your accuracy increases quite a bit. Imagine GPS being accurate to a few centimeters.