China's secret space base not where thought

DarkPhenyx

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:39 AM
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China's secret space base not where thought

THe Chinese version of Area 51?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/10/09/china.secret.base.reut/index.html

If all goes according to plan, China will become the third country to send a man into space. But the government was maintaining its veil of secrecy on Thursday with a spokeswoman denying knowledge of any launch plan.

Is it me or, with the fall of Saddam, has China become the only government worse at lying than the Bush Administration? I swear they announced his officially last week.

Still, I find it interesting that we sill soon have another space power involved in the game. Personally I think it's going to be a good thing. Maybe it'll push teh US and Russia to actually do something new and inovative in space exploration.

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mhr

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Fri Oct-10-03 07:49 AM
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1. See the Story on Intel Chairman Andy Grove

saying the US is losing its tech edge due to outsourcing.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=159320

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6042-2003Oct9.html

This fits right in. The republicans complained that Clinton sold secrets to the Chinese; yet the republicans are selling our good high-tech jobs to the lowest bidder.

Hypocrisy, go figure!

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