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Started by Jacob, June 18, 2012, 12:50:41 PM

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What do you think about China's space program?

Space is pointless and the Chinese are wasting their money. Suckers.
2 (6.1%)
It is another sign that the Chinese are catching up to the West and that is a very bad thing.
7 (21.2%)
They have a prestige project. Yeay for them. Whatever worries I may or may not have about China are unrelated to space.
11 (33.3%)
Space is cool! Anything involving space is cool, whether it involves China or not. Whee!
9 (27.3%)
The subject is uninteresting to me, but I like to vote in polls.
4 (12.1%)

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jimmy olsen

#30
June 18, 2012, 11:01:57 PM
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Tonitrus

#31
June 18, 2012, 11:47:28 PM
Quote from: derspiess on June 18, 2012, 10:56:52 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 18, 2012, 09:44:55 PM
Speaking of absent Languish memes....I'd hit the female Chinese astronaut like a Taepodong-2.

Ah, cool.  So the cuter one got the spot?  The other one wasn't so cute.

Hah, I didn't know there were two.  But I think she's cute...[ide]in a stalwart, communist-idealism kinda way[/ide].

For too-lazy-too-read-the-article-and-google-himself Timmah...




Syt

#32
June 19, 2012, 12:53:32 AM
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Martinus

#33
June 19, 2012, 12:55:10 AM Last Edit: June 19, 2012, 12:58:34 AM by Martinus
There is no option: "Space used to be cool but then the Chinks moved in".

Tonitrus

#34
June 19, 2012, 01:13:15 AM
It's not really much different than Soviets in space...except with less Russian-ramshackle and more Chinese hive-mind.

Eddie Teach

#35
June 19, 2012, 01:47:53 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 18, 2012, 05:57:24 PM
I feel like I've missed a new Languish meme somewhere.

Quotes with no added text is a meme that's probably as old as the internet itself.
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MadImmortalMan

#36
June 19, 2012, 02:04:42 AM
I thought it was a Muppet Show thread.
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Sheilbh

#37
June 19, 2012, 02:29:31 AM
I prefer Jews in space.
Let's bomb Russia!

Josquius

#38
June 19, 2012, 02:32:43 AM
She IS pretty cute. Especially for a cosmo/astro/taiko/whateverthehellanaut.
They're generally as a rule unpresentable scientists.
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DGuller

#39
June 19, 2012, 02:50:26 AM
The really impressive space breakthrough would be doing it at costs that aren't astronomical.  Sending a man to the man was impressive.  However, it's already been done, so repeating it just for the sake of it wouldn't prove anything.  Sending a moon to the moon without spending percentage points of GDP on it would be something, however.

Syt

#40
June 19, 2012, 02:52:47 AM
Quote from: DGuller on June 19, 2012, 02:50:26 AM
Sending a man to the man was impressive.  However, it's already been done, so repeating it just for the sake of it wouldn't prove anything.  Sending a moon to the moon without spending percentage points of GDP on it would be something, however.

:unsure:
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Martinus

#41
June 19, 2012, 02:57:39 AM
Quote from: Syt on June 19, 2012, 02:52:47 AM
Quote from: DGuller on June 19, 2012, 02:50:26 AM
Sending a man to the man was impressive.  However, it's already been done, so repeating it just for the sake of it wouldn't prove anything.  Sending a moon to the moon without spending percentage points of GDP on it would be something, however.

:unsure:

What is your problem? I agree with DGuller that sending a moon to the moon would be more impressive than sending a man to the man.

11B4V

#42
June 19, 2012, 03:00:00 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 18, 2012, 11:47:28 PM
Hah, I didn't know there were two.  But I think she's cute...[ide]in a stalwart, communist-idealism kinda way.


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DGuller

#43
June 19, 2012, 03:03:24 AM
 :hmm:  I should not post at 4 am.  Damn insomnia.

Eddie Teach

#44
June 19, 2012, 03:58:23 AM
Quote from: Martinus on June 19, 2012, 02:57:39 AM
What is your problem? I agree with DGuller that sending a moon to the moon would be more impressive than sending a man to the man.

Mooning the moon is less likely to get you arrested than mooning a man, I suspect.
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