my profile | directory login | search | faq | forum home

» Flare Sci-Fi Forums » Community » Officers' Lounge » Chinaaaaaaa In Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!!!!!!!!! (Page 1)

This topic comprises 5 pages: 1  2  3  4  5

Author Topic: Chinaaaaaaa In Spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!!!!!!!!! Styrofoaman Active Member Member # 706 posted                       Ok, following the trend here in America of laying off thousands of workers and sending thier jobs over to China do you think NASA will follow and outsource all space flight operations to China? Discuss. -------------------- Like A Bat Out Of Hell... Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Treknophyle Senior Member Member # 509 posted                       I don't know about that - but congratulations to them - for joining the Space Community - which in the final analysis is much more significant that joining the Nuclear Club. -------------------- 'One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.' - Lazarus Long Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged First of Two Better than you Member # 16 posted                       Where's Blofeld and his secret volcano lair when you need him? Grab that capsule, it's payback time! -------------------- "The best defense is not a good offense. The best defense is a terrifyingly accurate and devastatingly powerful offense, with multiply-overlapping kill zones and time-on-target artillery strikes." -- Laurence, Archangel of the Sword Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged MinutiaeMan Living the Geeky Dream Member # 444 posted                       Outsourcing to China -- interesting idea. I somehow doubt that China can do the same jobs much cheaper, though. At least, not any time within the next decade or two. The best idea would be something equivalent if ISA/IASA or whatever you want to call it. But China's entry into the manned space age doesn't add much hope for that, considering their characteristic extreme paranoia. IIRC, even the Soviets didn't have their space program permanently under the command of the military, right? After quoting the brief mention last night, CNN published an entire article about Wan Hu, the first Chinese taikonaut (in the 1500's). Although common wisdom suggests that the gunpowder rockets simply obliterated Mr. Wan, it's also possible, IMO, that the explosion formed some sort of Kerr loop of superstring material, creating a temporal rift that sent Wan and his primitive spacecraft into another time... -------------------- “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” — Isaac Asimov Star Trek Minutiae | Memory Alpha Registered: Nov 2000  |  IP: Logged Styrofoaman Active Member Member # 706 posted                       This is intresting. Being that USA and USSR have done most of the pioneer work, how soon do you think until they put up a small space-station? -------------------- Like A Bat Out Of Hell... Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged ubermetroid Member Member # 729 posted                       I hope that the space race starts up again... :-) -------------------- "That's the problem with nature. Something is always stinging you or oozing mucous on you. lets go watch tv." - Calvin & Hobbes Registered: Nov 2001  |  IP: Logged Mark Nguyen I'm a daddy now! Member # 469 posted                       Shenzhou 5 has landed safely. Yay for them. There are articles online already for and against a renewed space race - check space.com and CNN.com. Personally I'm in favor of it, for a lot of good can come from it. But the days of the cold war are far behind us, and diplomacy has pretty well ensured that a US/China encounter will not happen. I hope that at the least, we get some definitive cooperation in space. The Chinese seem intent on a space station and then a moon landing within fifteen years. I certainly hope so - and then after that, a cooperative mission to Mars with the rest of the space community. Hopefully some of us will still be around to appreciate it. Mark -------------------- "This is my timey-wimey detector. Goes ding when there's stuff." - Doctor Who The 404s - Improv Comedy | Mark's Starship Bridge Designs | Anime Alberta Registered: Dec 2000  |  IP: Logged Masao doesn't like you either Member # 232 posted                       If the Chinese know what's good for them, they'll stay away from Europa! Seriously, congrats to Yang Liwei and the Chinese space program! By the way, has any seen any good closeups of those mission patches? -------------------- When you're in the Sol system, come visit the Starfleet Museum Registered: Oct 1999  |  IP: Logged Masao doesn't like you either Member # 232 posted                       Here's China's space agency patch. I wonder if there are Trek fans in China. -------------------- When you're in the Sol system, come visit the Starfleet Museum Registered: Oct 1999  |  IP: Logged Siegfried Fullmetal Pompatus Member # 29 posted                       I hope Viacom's lawyers don't learn about this... -------------------- The philosopher's stone. Those who possess it are no longer bound by the laws of equivalent exchange in alchemy. They gain without sacrifice and create without equal exchange. We searched for it, and we found it. Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged TSN I'm... from Earth. Member # 31 posted                       Or Pontiac's. Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Cartman just made by the Presbyterian Church Member # 256 posted                       Or the UN's. Registered: Nov 1999  |  IP: Logged Phoenix Active Member Member # 966 posted                       Is there any particular reason why the letters aren't Chinese? And presumably they stand for Chinese National Space Agency, which makes even less sense... Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Wraith Zen Riot Activist Member # 779 posted                       So, anyone want to guess what direction China will take with her space program? A space station? The moon? How about the US; will this spur a new space race? -------------------- "I am an almost extinct breed, an old-fashioned gentleman, which means I can be a cast-iron son-of-a-bitch when it suits me." --Jubal Harshaw Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged Nim The Aardvark asked for a dagger Member # 205 posted                       Here's a thought. While starting projects with the other countries to build a better space station and generally cooperating, they could get rid of their oppressive, counterproductive communist regime. Still, one out of two would be enough. -------------------- "I'm nigh-invulnerable when I'm blasting!" Mel Gibson, X-Men Registered: Aug 1999  |  IP: Logged

This topic comprises 5 pages: 1  2  3  4  5

Quick Reply Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. Instant Graemlins

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum:   Category: Administration -------------------- Incoming Hail   Category: Star Trek -------------------- General Trek Starships & Technology New Trek   Category: Sci-Fi -------------------- Designs, Artwork, & Creativity General Sci-Fi Star Wars   Category: Community -------------------- Other Television Shows Officers' Lounge The Flameboard Forum Competitions   Category: These Don't Exist -------------------- Moderator's Corner

© 1999-2024 Charles Capps

Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3