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作者：人之初 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
人家世界上最大的民主国家为了这个花瓶可酸了, 哪比得上我们这里粪土世间万物的高人们
A Joke Considering First Man Went Up in 1961
[ MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2003 12:03:47 AM ]
China to launch its manned space mission on Oct 15
It would be better to call it China's Late Creep Forward, given that Beijing is attempting to showcase a four-decade-old technology.
Even if the flight of the much fanfared Shenzhou 5 is successful, it will have merely carried one or more astronauts aloft for a few orbits of Earth lasting the duration of a day. That's almost exactly what the Soviets accomplished when they put Yuri Gagarin in space in 1961.
If this is China's idea of arriving, then it's come at a time when the other two space-faring nations have left it light years behind. That's not all; it could also be argued that China's entire space programme has virtually come piggyback on the shoulders of giants.
The person responsible for the launch of China's first rocket and satellite, for instance, was Qian Xuesen, a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Lab conducting classified rocket research in the United States who was deported after being suspected of being a communist.
Subsequently, not only have Chinese astronauts been trained in Russian space facilities but the Shenzhou's airframe is modelled on a Soyuz spacecraft.
Some people might point to the fact that India seems to be going the same way in its space programme with the latest being an extravagant mission to the Moon. However, there are two essential differences.
Firstly, the Indian effort is vastly home-grown, right from supercomputers to cryogenic engines to geosynchronous launch vehicles. Secondly, and more importantly, in spite of the battering India's democratic image gets from time to time, dissent in the country is still allowed and indeed flourishes.
Not so in China, which is why it can keep on spending upwards of two billion dollars annually on such a project without anyone daring to question it openly. This could have grave consequences in a country where a significant number of its 1.2 billion people subsist on less than one dollar a day. The success of Shenzhou 5 would in that case be a purely PR exercise event-managed from inside.
作者：人之初 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org |
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