China completes Human Spaceflight

[Taro Toporific]

And now that their space program has caught up with the US (minus 25 years), let's hope they go to work on their music industry next.

I have no words for this one.

Dang. We'll need the NAME of the MP3 you want us to hear. Something about "cantoymca" I guess, right?

Hot-linking AprilWinchell.com is a big no-no. I had this same problem a few months ago here on the FG trying to link to the "007 Theme (Tokyo Panorama Mambo Boys) (291.7 K) Shaken, not stir-fried."

1: First you have to point us to http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/
2: Then, we have to search for the MP3 name you give us.
Just giving us < http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/cantoymca%2Emp3 > won't work--- from our side all we get is an error message saying the FG Forum is an evil "Bandwidth Leach".

[Caustic Saint]

Yeah, that happened in the other post I had linking there.

Copy & paste:

tinyurl.com/oxhu

[ramchop]

I am sure he was refering to the Chinese military-the US could and should fight and defeat the Chinese navy and airforce should they try to take democratic Taiwan.

Considering that the whole world is too chickenshit to even recognise Taiwan as an independant country (apart from 27 countries mostly in central America, Africa, and also the Vatican) I doubt very much there'd be too much stepping in to defend its independence.

[AssKissinger]

New link: http://www.yahoo.com/s/118642

A successful manned launch would stand as a testament to China's economic and technical progress, winning Beijing respect abroad and more importantly approval at home. Chinese leaders long ago traded in leftist ideology for economic reform and, battered by corruption scandals, have used such flag-waving appeals to nationalism to bind the nation together

Still, some Chinese complain privately that the program is a waste of money in a society where the average person makes about $700 a year

Like other details, the cost of the military-linked program is secret but is believed to total at least $1 billion; equal to the annual government budget of a smaller Chinese province.

China would still be only the third country capable of manned space flight, vaulting it ahead of Japan and European countries, which have only unmanned programs

[AssKissinger]

The big day is cominhttp://www.yahoo.com/s/119042


Report: China Sends Human in Space Oct. 15

After a decade of preparation, China will launch its first human being into space on Oct. 15 in a 90-minute flight that will orbit the Earth once, a major Chinese Web site reported, quoting a top government rocketry offici

[Gestalt]

The really big news about this event was of course In this article

The Ta Kung Pao report quoted a source who has seen the astronauts saying that they were all "handsome guys."

and

The source said the astronauts wore their spacesuits during practice and that the suits were mainly milky white or cream-colored

[gpvillamil]

No, the really big news is this:

The Shenzhou 5 mission will also mark the debut of authentic Chinese food in space, another website reported.

"They'll be able to eat shredded pork with garlic sauce and kungpao chicken," China.com said. "It will be more tasty than Western food. After the meal, green tea will be available to increase the astronaut's spirits."

From Wired

[AssKissinger]

No, the really big news is this:

The Shenzhou 5 mission will also mark the debut of authentic Chinese food in space, another website reported.

"They'll be able to eat shredded pork with garlic sauce and kungpao chicken," China.com said. "It will be more tasty than Western food. After the meal, green tea will be available to increase the astronaut's spirits."

From Wired

That's funny. Sorry to stereotype, Tina, but it seems so typically Chinese to pack a delicious lunch even if it's only a 90 minute trip! More tasty than Western food? I must concur. But will they have Tang? Is Tang from China? It sounds Chinese. Tang.

[cstaylor]

:: fingers crossed that there's no mistakes :: Let's hope the capsule and occupant get home in one piece.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

:: fingers crossed that there's no mistakes :: Let's hope the capsule and occupant get home in one piece.

I hope they get back in 2 pieces one capsule and one human. Instead of 1 chard ball of human space craft that are inseparable

[ramchop]

[AssKissinger]

China beats Europe into space!

[cstaylor]

Let's hope the pilot gets home safely.

[GomiGirl]

This was all over the BBC this morning.. the snippet that most appealed to me was the fact that the Chinese are promoting that everything was developed and made in China.. they will be promoting the "Made in China" fact as their products slip more and more into global markets!!! hhmmm..

[Taro Toporific]

hhmmm..

China bans coverage of blast-off
Arab Times, Oct 15, 2003
... official announcement that the launch of Shenzhou V (Divine Vessel) ... which brought the memorable revelation last week from the official news agency Xinhua that the remote Gobi desert launch centre was an eco-friendly paradise where the street lamps were shaped like spaceships and "colourful bushes are dotted here and there" has dried up.Now we may never know why, as the Xinhua report cryptically revealed, "more than 60 oases have emerged in the desert since the centre was founded" in 1958.
.... now was a good time to tell the world that "northeast of the launch base are the graves of more than 500 people who contributed to the country's space cause".
... Why don't they spend the money on the development of western China?". Another suggested the cosmonaut should "piss on Japan when you pass it".

[Taro Toporific]

China beats Europe into space!

Some feel threatened by China's launch
Times The Associated Press 10/14/2003, 11:48 p.m. CT
... But in Japan, Miki Kobayashi, 28, said the launch marked a defeat for her country, which has seen its once-mighty economy decline as China's has grown rapidly in recent years.
"I feel like we have lost," said Kobayashi, a dental hygienist in Tokyo. "Japan had worked so hard on its space program. I guess China is rich. I hope Japan can catch up again."
China has explicitly said it opposes the "weaponization" of space. But some worried that the launch was a sign that China's military was becoming more powerful....
"China is more of a threat than ever. Not just for Asia, but for the whole world," said Akira Machida, 54, a white collar worker in Tokyo.
...

[AssKissinger]

Back to Earth! Congratulations China!

http://www.yahoo.com/homer/?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031016/ap_on_sc/china_space&cid=624&ncid=716

China's first astronaut returned safely to Earth on Thursday when his craft touched down on time and as planned after 21 hours in orbit. Beijing's mission control declared the country's landmark debut flight "a success."

[tidbits]

That's funny. Sorry to stereotype, Tina, but it seems so typically Chinese to pack a delicious lunch even if it's only a 90 minute trip! More tasty than Western food? I must concur. But will they have Tang?

I think one of the reasons is because most Chinese need to eat constantly. And good you mentioned about Tang! how nastukashii! I drank that before, it taste like..er..anything but not orange juice. I ever had a hotel guest gave the whole bottle to me after he tasted it only once.

[cstaylor]

...does anyone know if the pilot has a twin brother? IIRC, the Russian dog, Laika, died in space during the first few hours of her ordeal.

[American Oyaji]

Personally, I think Japan's problems with rocket launches have been cases of sabotage.

[Taro Toporific]

Back to Earth! Congratulations China!
http://www.yahoo.com/homer/?http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20031016/ap_on_sc/china_space&cid=624&ncid=716

The Japanese Are Impressed, but They Plan to Leap AheadNY TImes / October 16, 2003The space programs of Asia's two most powerful nations have roughly similar annual budgets: $1.7 billion for Japan and about $2.2 billion for China. But the programs speak volumes about their two worldviews.

...... the Chinese manned space flight left many here [JPN] meditating on
the reality of being No. 2.

"Japan Shocked at Being Placed Way Behind" was the headline in
the daily Tokyo Shimbun this afternoon next to a front-page photo of
the Chinese launching. Others meditated on the incongruity of
Japan's giving $1.2 billion a year in developmental aid to China.[...]

[Big Booger]

Do you honestly believe the chinese could have launched a man into space solely by their own power? Many parties had a hand in that.. and I bet even some American technology was lifted, pardon the pun, to propel them into space.
Again, the above is only conjecture, no proof whatsoever.

[ramchop]

China has outlined plans to land a man on the Moon by 2020, the country's chief space official said in comments broadcast on state television.

[Big Booger]

I think it is doable.. but I also think that the risks are multiplied 1000 fold for a trip to the moon. But it is not like they were doing it blinding like back with the US did it. They have data to go by, a precursor was already set... imagine being the first and having to pioneer it.

I wished the US would kick their asses in high gear and get a man to mars. That or put a colony on the moon, to harvest moon dust

[AssKissinger]

I wished the US would kick their asses in high gear and get a man to mars.

That's the spirit!


http://www.fuckedgaijin.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4371&highlight=mars

[GargoyleTS]

Bah! Moondust? We have enough dust and rocks. The entire Scientific community needs to get together and truly plan WHAT they would do with an colony on the Moon. Then start getting the politicians involved AFTER the plans are made, since its easier to make room for political and military additions than to build a plan around them.

[Big Booger]

Any of you seen Puruto Nashu?

LOL

I would like to travel to the moon on a space tour. That would be nice... Why do these things take so much time? Why because the space race is dead.. we see what competition, or the lack of does to a field of study....

MS anyone?

[Caustic Saint]

Bah! Moondust? We have enough dust and rocks. The entire Scientific community needs to get together and truly plan WHAT they would do with an colony on the Moon. Then start getting the politicians involved AFTER the plans are made, since its easier to make room for political and military additions than to build a plan around them.

Whoever gets a permanent settlement the moon first can call all the shots (for the most part) militarily. Once you're on the moon it's not that big of a deal to start chucking rocks down a gravity well. Fighting back from the bottom of one is a big deal, though.

[tonikoro]

-this is sort of like the Americans getting kicked in the teeth with Yuri Gagarin's man flight to space. You would think there would be more access to technologies for Japan's space agencies form allied developers of space industries. But anyway..

[Alcazar]

I wished the US would kick their asses in high gear and get a man to mars. That or put a colony on the moon, to harvest moon dust

Dude, it's call SPICE. From 'Dune'.