Chinese to Launch Manned Spaceflight Next Week

[Agathon]

Apparently he'll be called a "taikonaut" and will be wearing a spiffy cream-coloured spacesuit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Oct8.html

I hope this goes well for the Chinese - perhaps they'll even go to the moon eventually. That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

[Nubclear]

Comrade Tassadar once attached this image, but it didn't work:

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[Agathon]

[Drake Tungsten]

That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

Why? Are we supposed to be thrilled that China has finally made it to the 1960's?

[Nubclear]

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

Quote:

That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

Why? Are we supposed to be thrilled that China has finally made it to the 1960's?

Hopefully China won't fake THEIRS!

[Kirnwaffen]

Fake their sixties? No, you have to go to NK for that.

[Drake Tungsten]

Already seen that, Tass. Every word of it is true.

[Nubclear]

Kanji are letters that were stolen from China. Every time the Japanese invaded China (which was very often) they'd just take a few more letters, so now they have an estimated 400 gazillion of them.

[Sarxis]

I really do hope the Chinese have plans to colonize the moon.

Will make NASA get off their damn asses. >:|

[DarthVeda]

Why buy a ride on the Russian space program when you can just buy the Russian space program? Seriously they buy every component they need and then declare its their space program? Next they'll be wanting the Buran...

[Q Classic]

go china!

[DaShi]

I had one of my students write on China sending a man into space. She said that they are sending a man into space to punish him for being lazy. It was really a clever and amusing story. I should send her a copy of "The Manned Missiles" by Kurt Vonnegut.

[Az]

Kanji each consist of several "strokes", which must be written in a specific order, and convey a specific meaning, like "horse", or "girl". Not only that, but Kanji can combined to form new words. For example, if you combine the Kanji for "small", and "woman", you get the word "carbeurator".

ON TOPIC: I HOPE that this will ignite another space race. But sadly, it won't.

[Drake Tungsten]

Unfortunately for me, that's actually not that far from the truth, Azazel.

[Az]

That's what you get for choosing such a minor.

[Drake Tungsten]

****, I long for the days when it was just a minor and not an infuriating part of my daily life.

[Az]

Well, honestly, I think this kind of line of education can be very interesting, unlike mine. ( Which does, however, offer a steady job for life )

[Alinestra Covelia]

The Economist magazine and BBC website put it quite well. They said that America had reached the Moon in the 1960s, found little of interest there, and never gone back.

Now, China and India have both declared equal and opposite interest in the Moon and are racing to get there. What America can make of this interest in something it abandoned so long ago is anybody's guess.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Alinestra Covelia
The Economist magazine and BBC website put it quite well. They said that America had reached the Moon in the 1960s, found little of interest there, and never gone back.

That's because the Soviets never made it there.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

It will end in failure... and China will say it was successful. They have already filmed the return with the taikonaut's. The whole thing is a scam. They are not capable of space flight with humans.

[Oerdin]

The BBC has an interresting article on this. According to the spokesman from the Chinese government the manned space program has two main goals. 1) To build patriotism with in China and to build prestige abroad. 2) to help improve China's military capabilities.

Launching a man into space was a big deal back in the 1950's but the Chinese are a half century late to the party. At least a half dozen nations (Japan, Germany, UK, France, to name a few) could do it if they wanted to but it's really just a waste of money so they haven't. China would be much wiser to spend the money improving the lives of it's poor people.

[My Wife Hates CIV]

"China would be much wiser to spend the money improving the lives of it's poor people."

why?

[Ned]

I applaud this. We really need competition to spur our own space program. The Russians no longer have the resources. The Europeans seem to be disorganized and irresolute. The Chinese can be formidable competitors. Go China!

[Snotty]

Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV
It will end in failure... and China will say it was successful. They have already filmed the return with the taikonaut's. The whole thing is a scam. They are not capable of space flight with humans.

Tinfoil hats at dawn?

How much space tech sharing is there to China? It would be a shame if their science efforts were retreading the ground that was already covered by others.

I hope it goes well.

[Oerdin]

Originally posted by My Wife Hates CIV
"China would be much wiser to spend the money improving the lives of it's poor people."

why?

According to the BBC China was recently ranked 96th amoung nations in terms of living conditions and quality of life. That's pretty close to rock bottom. Maybe they should worry less about what foreigners think about them and worry more about how the people in their own country live.

[Az]

That would be very un-Chinese.

[Theben]

English Sentence:
Jane went to the school.

Same Sentence In Japanese:
School Jane To Went Monkey Apple Carbeurator.

Japanese grammer is not for the faint of heart or weak of mind. What's more, the Japanese also do not have any words for "me", "them", "him, or "her" that anyone could use without being incredibly insulting (the Japanese word for "you", for example, when written in kanji, translates to"I hope a monkey scratches your face off"). Because of this, the sentence "He just killed her!" and "I just killed her!" sound exactly the same, meaning that most people in Japan have no idea what is going on around them at any given moment. You are supposed to figure these things out from the "context", which is a German word meaning "you're screwed".

The Anime Freak is probably the most common, and one of the most annoying. You can usually spot a few warning signs to let you identify them before it's too late: they wear the same exact Evangelion shirt every day, they have more than one anime key chain on their person, they wear glasses, they say phrases in Japanese that hey obviously don't understand (such as "Yes! I will never forgive you!"), they refer to you as "-chan", make obscure Japanese culture references during class, and usually fail class. You have to be extremely careful not to let them smell pity or fear on you, because if they do they will immeadiately latch onto you and suck up both your time and patience, leaving only a lifeless husk. Desperate for human companionship, they will invite you to club meetings, anime showings, conventions, and all other sorts of various things you don't care about.

I think I was "deer caught in headlights".

[Chemical Ollie]

Forget about little green men. Here come the little yellow men !

[My Wife Hates CIV]

"Maybe they should worry less about what foreigners think about them and worry more about how the people in their own country live."

again, why? why should they care about the poor? if you take care of them they just end up living longer... you'll need even more resources in the long run.