Oh, Dear China
Written by Ryan Andrew at 8:03 AM
China, you humor me. Immensely. NASA may think it has some huge victory, or minor confidence boost, in their recently successful Deep Impact.
Yet, NASA - maybe an entire decade or two - relies on the one and only upcoming Discovery shuttle mission. Nonetheless, China who is number three in the line of getting things up into space seems to have some rather heightly ambitions. They are currently "focused" on a moon probe, yet some people are taking time already having planned their own Deep Impact mission.
Well no, their mission they like to say is more about preventing a comet or asteroid moreso from hitting Earth. Star Wars anyone? O wait, that never happened.
Nonetheless, despite any initial to blow it out of the "sky", China says their mission would be to soft land a vessel and merely use a huge ass engine to thrust the meteor off course. Okay.
Oh but wait, they aren't even sure yet if their radio signals are working. Does anyone else agree that China needs to split up the first 4 or 5 decades of space technology into multiple missions? The next thing they will say is they have a Mars probe that will detach and wildly send itself off halfway to the comet. Grow up China, you already have a bigger military - I think someone is scared of the celestial space above as an attack ground.
Yet, NASA - maybe an entire decade or two - relies on the one and only upcoming Discovery shuttle mission. Nonetheless, China who is number three in the line of getting things up into space seems to have some rather heightly ambitions. They are currently "focused" on a moon probe, yet some people are taking time already having planned their own Deep Impact mission.Well no, their mission they like to say is more about preventing a comet or asteroid moreso from hitting Earth. Star Wars anyone? O wait, that never happened.
Nonetheless, despite any initial to blow it out of the "sky", China says their mission would be to soft land a vessel and merely use a huge ass engine to thrust the meteor off course. Okay.
Oh but wait, they aren't even sure yet if their radio signals are working. Does anyone else agree that China needs to split up the first 4 or 5 decades of space technology into multiple missions? The next thing they will say is they have a Mars probe that will detach and wildly send itself off halfway to the comet. Grow up China, you already have a bigger military - I think someone is scared of the celestial space above as an attack ground.
2 Notes -
I don't know. I believe it. The Chinese can do anything. "Slapstick," anyone?
Just for perspective's sake, while China's space ambitions may be laughable in some ways, if the U.S. pisses them off too much, forget the military, all they have to do is push a few economic and financial buttons (which their government is very capable of doing) and they've immensely screwed the U.S. And who knows, at the rate they're developing in other areas, they might very well be the first to use space as a battleground possibility. Bush's space race is certainly nothing to brag about. More like the man running the marathon in the dinosaur suit and passing out after mile 2. Or maybe that was a bad analogy.
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