China Launch of Shenzhou-8

China launch of Shenzhou-8 which will attempt to rendezvous and dock with the Tiangong-1 space station module. This is China's first attempt at a docking and rendezvous between its spacecraft.

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• Tiangong-1

[mhenriday]

Perhaps now the United States will finally realise that the absurd policy forced upon it by Frank Rudolph Wolf et al, which has forbjuden NASA to cooperate with the Chinese in space endeavours (to the degree that Chinese journalists were barred from NASA briefings at the last shuttle flight) is not in the country's best interests and is no longer credible. Then, perhaps, humanity can begin to seriously cooperate to overcome the limitations imposed upon it by the Earth's gravity well....

Henri

[WaleedRahman]

Congratulations, China! We are so proud of you! You did it on your own, without you know who, and their cronies. Despite sanctions, you did it! You are the hope of the proletariat! Long live China!

[mhenriday]

WarmongerWW3, your choice of pseudonym indicates a certain penchant for drastic solutions. I don't happen to share it....

Henri

[WarmongerWW3]

@mhenriday It seems reasonable to say that a thermonuclear conflagration will eventually happen. However, this will not cause the human extinction. It's more likely that this will solve the Global Warming & Overpopulation problem.

Robock, Alan, 2010: Nuclear winter. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 1, 418-427.

killing two rabbits with one shot.

[mhenriday]

WarmongerWW3, while Herakleitos did indeed maintain that «dike eris» - «strife is justice». I suggest, however, that today, two and one half millennia later, if we don't learn to cooperate, what we will develop is not space technology, but a thermonuclear conflagration which puts and end to H sapiens sapiens short, happy life on this planet....

Henri

[WarmongerWW3]

@gnkramal33 War is a very productive behavior in terms of technological development (Roland, 2009).

[WarmongerWW3]

@mhenriday I completely disagree with you. History shows us that the best way to develop space technology is through competition and war, not cooperation.

[gnkramal33]

@Gweggwet , I am very happy to see ,That you really,Enjoy ,Appreciated,and Constsantly using the Latest Chinese Technology, Why don't you GOOGLE ( Founder of Youtube ,Yahoo,and Father of Fiber Optical Kao ) All invented by Han CHINESE. With out that, You might have to talk to your self in the basement with a key board . : )

[gnkramal33]

@Gweggwet Just think what a drone can do, To a BLOCK of innocent ppl. happen once every 2 wks.

[gnkramal33]

If usa had spended 25% of its WAR bugets on space programs, They would have owned the FULL MOON totally. Now it's China chance to GRAB IT.

[mhenriday]

@docmordrid

Given that China hasn't engaged in any military adventures abroad since Deng Xiaoping's unfortunate Vietnamese tour in February-March 1979 (supported by the US), which the Chinese government had the good sense to bring to a close in less than 30 days and that under these three decades, the US has continually been engaged in wars of aggression abroad, I'd say that the Chinese record on human rights, while certainly not good, is far better than that of the US.

Henri