Funny First Paragraph. I think that the Chinese people will eventually reach a standard of living the same as the United States, and they will probably surpass us technologically and militarily. I just hope that our government still understands how to bargain when your not the biggest kid on the block or our people may get screwed on a global stage. It may take 50 or 100 years for this to happen, but it will.
(of course barring natural disaster like a gigantic meteorite shower hitting only the far east) or tensions igniting a nuclear war in the far east that remains regional and does not go global.
Wasn't this very idea used in the book Contact by Carl Sagan. The aliens sent their message in three parts. They used Amplitude, Frequency, and Polarization.
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Funny First Paragraph. I think that the Chinese people will eventually reach a standard of living the same as the United States, and they will probably surpass us technologically and militarily. I just hope that our government still understands how to bargain when your not the biggest kid on the block or our people may get screwed on a global stage. It may take 50 or 100 years for this to happen, but it will. (of course barring natural disaster like a gigantic meteorite shower hitting only the far east) or tensions igniting a nuclear war in the far east that remains regional and does not go global.
I've got a wireless one built in China, but I don't know where my laptop keyboard im typing this on was built.
20 dollar nikes, where do you live?
WE didn't have to go through this, our great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents did.
Wasn't this very idea used in the book Contact by Carl Sagan. The aliens sent their message in three parts. They used Amplitude, Frequency, and Polarization.
Why not just use metal sheath for the cables. I know they do it for power cables in homes, so why not for data cables in server rooms.