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2008-09-29 China-Japan-Koreas

China space heroes return after great leap upward

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Posted by Fred 2008-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 So are they really back or is this just another whatchamacallit pre-announcement?

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-29 01:34|| 2008-09-29 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not so quick to bust their chops. At least they are out there doing it. What has NASA done lately? How are those beans sprouts and fruit fly experiments paying off on the ISS?

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-09-29 10:42|| 2008-09-29 10:42|| Front Page Top

#3 What do you mean? They are all Important Scientific steps to finding out the Origins of Our Universe. They say so for every mission.

They wouldn't be... inflating the importance of each girder to the ISS? Would they?

Posted by Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-09-29 11:50|| 2008-09-29 11:50|| Front Page Top

#4 It is an impressive technical achievement. I was mocking the hyper-efficient ChiCom Official Party Spin Machine(tm). At least NASA only lies to itself (see the Challenger disaster and Feynman's "Nature cannot be fooled").

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-29 13:20|| 2008-09-29 13:20|| Front Page Top

#5 How are those beans sprouts and fruit fly experiments paying off on the ISS?
Posted by: Yosemite Sam

YS: "Soylent Orange is fruit flies!!1!"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-09-29 21:46|| 2008-09-29 21:46|| Front Page Top

#6 ION CHINA > REDDIT - WHAT CHINA DESCRIBED [Pre-Olympics] AS A SEPARATIST ATTACK [Uighur Militants] MAY HAD BEEN SONETHING DIFFERENT [Paramilitary Police attack agz Same].

Also, TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA WANTS TO SET UP REFUGE CENTRES [Thailand, Mongolia, Russia] FOR NORTH KOREANS IN CASE OF POST-KIM COLLAPSE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-29 23:28|| 2008-09-29 23:28|| Front Page Top

#7 ION TOPIX > RAND STUDY: CHINESE FIGHTERS CAN OUTGUN US F-22's OVER TAIWAN [72+ Chin:6 US F22 Numbers [12:1 Odds] + anti-US Area/Base Denial = Surviv US F22's cannot land after dogfight].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-09-29 23:35|| 2008-09-29 23:35|| Front Page Top

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