We gave up on manned exploration, in fact NASA is has cut back a lot with manned exploration because of the risk/cost/practicalities, but it is till a much more romantic notion that someone is up there instead of a probe or drone. It costs more, but damn, it is a much more impressive feat.
Kudos to China for doing something with advanced spaced travel, since NASA has lost the "passion" and "romance" of manned exploration, its nice to know someone still believes in it. It's like the difference between a Corolla and a Ferrari 612, one is more efficient at what it does, but there's still something to be said for doing something just because it appeals to your emotional instincts and it makes sense, they're after the world's largest hydroelectric dam, 2nd tallest skyscraper(2008) and everything else.
Besides it's not like I'm paying for it.
Kudos to China for doing something with advanced spaced travel, since NASA has lost the "passion" and "romance" of manned exploration, its nice to know someone still believes in it. It's like the difference between a Corolla and a Ferrari 612, one is more efficient at what it does, but there's still something to be said for doing something just because it appeals to your emotional instincts and it makes sense, they're after the world's largest hydroelectric dam, 2nd tallest skyscraper(2008) and everything else.
Besides it's not like I'm paying for it.
Didn't the West steal & improved papermaking, printing, and the 2 biggies are compass & gunpowder roughly a thousand year after China invented it?
Not long ago the Japanese were called copycats, but their automobile & electronic are now leaders in the industry.
Some patient & time the copycat Chinese may become the technology leader for others to follow.
Money talks, people will not stop looking for ways to get the best value for their dollar.
And one giant leap for the copycat Commies.
So when will I be able to place an order for The General Tsao's chicken with Pork Fried rice from my nifty space cruiser while in orbit around the moon?
Originally blackpowder were use for entertainment, such as beautiful displays of fireworks that still in use presently. However, some brilliant Westerners find a better use for it as an effective killing tool.Originally posted by: ElFenix
china may have invented it, but it took us crackers to figure out what to use it for.
and you'd think with a name like gunpowder it would have been obvious.
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Is this correct?Originally posted by: NoShangriLa
Originally blackpowder were use for entertainment, such as beautiful displays of fireworks that still in use presently. However, some brilliant Westerners find a better use for it as an effective killing tool.Originally posted by: ElFenix
china may have invented it, but it took us crackers to figure out what to use it for.
and you'd think with a name like gunpowder it would have been obvious.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/war/gunpowder.htm
My mind is a bit rusty since I last read this subject (circa late 80s). Chinese inverters did us blackpower for rocketries in warfare, however it wasn't meant to us as a killing weapon but as a power display of the Chinese against their enemy (Mongols). Similar technology that we use to day to make bang stick for festivals & to scare/drive wild animals/birds way.Originally posted by: her209
Is this correct?Originally posted by: NoShangriLa
Originally blackpowder were use for entertainment, such as beautiful displays of fireworks that still in use presently. However, some brilliant Westerners find a better use for it as an effective killing tool.Originally posted by: ElFenix
china may have invented it, but it took us crackers to figure out what to use it for.
and you'd think with a name like gunpowder it would have been obvious.
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/war/gunpowder.htm
Since we got there first the moon is ours right.... so then we should bomb china and stop them from taking our land and making it into one gigantic sweatshop. J/K
This isn't that big of a deal especially since all they had to do is copy a 40 year old design and then have their cheap laborers put it together, and also we not only have rovers on mars but probes out past jupiter taking pictures and doing scientific stuff.
This isn't that big of a deal especially since all they had to do is copy a 40 year old design and then have their cheap laborers put it together, and also we not only have rovers on mars but probes out past jupiter taking pictures and doing scientific stuff.
Not sure why the interest in the moon. It may have some natural resources we could use, but our technology far off from being able to harvest it in any useable fashion.
it might not put china on par with the US in terms of space exploration, but they're doing something, and they've got big plans...same can't be said for most other countries....
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Originally posted by: NoShangriLa
Originally blackpowder were use for entertainment, such as beautiful displays of fireworks that still in use presently. However, some brilliant Westerners find a better use for it as an effective killing tool.Originally posted by: ElFenix
china may have invented it, but it took us crackers to figure out what to use it for.
and you'd think with a name like gunpowder it would have been obvious.
westerners didn't call it black powder until new and improved gun powder came out in the 1800s. then black powder was used to refer to the old smoky stuff.
so, ha!
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