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Seven minutes of terror for China: Beijing attempts maiden Mars rover landing on Friday
India Today ^
| 05/13/2021
| Sibu Tripathi
Posted on 05/13/2021 8:34:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
05/13/2021 8:34:59 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
If the China Mars mission is a failure the people in China will hear reports about how awesomely successful it was and how it proved Sino supremacy over evil capitalist Americans.
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posted on
05/13/2021 8:41:30 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: BenLurkin
Commies on the RED planet. What took them so long? Maybe... Communism ?
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posted on
05/13/2021 8:42:17 AM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
To: BenLurkin
it will become only the third country to land a rover on another planet after the United States and Russia I don't think this is correct. The Russians attempted twice to land a rover on Mars back in the 1970's, but both missions crashed. They've landed on Venus, but those weren't rovers. They have a Mars mission in the works with the Europeans, but it won't launch until 2022.
(I'm not counting moon rovers; both the Chinese and Russians have landed unmanned moon rovers.)
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posted on
05/13/2021 8:48:00 AM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: BenLurkin
China aims to achieve orbiting, landing, and roving on the Red Planet in a single mission. This is backwards. It's technically much harder to land on Mars without going into Martian orbit first, the way the US has been doing. The tradeoff is that you also save a lot on spacecraft weight by not needing an orbiter stage.
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posted on
05/13/2021 8:50:54 AM PDT
by
Campion
(What part of "shall not be infringed" don't they understand?)
To: BenLurkin
They’ll be wanting to do it again an hour later...
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:11:04 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: BenLurkin
What a beautiful culture! They name their space equipment after what...God and Godesses? *rolls eyes*
Whereas Americans and Canadians have more utilitarian names, like Challenger, The Canadian Arm (not sure what it’s called in English but it helped the space shuttle get repaired, I think), Rover, etc.
Even the Soviets had Sputnik, though I have no idea what it means.
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:17:53 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
To: JRios1968
LOL! Just like McDonald’s. Tasty food but ultimately not fulfilling.
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:19:18 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
To: BenLurkin
Technically, the Chinese will not be successful in landing a rover on Mars given that they stole the technology from us.
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:23:41 AM PDT
by
fhayek
To: BenLurkin
So is the rover going to take out the American rover? /s
Jokes aside, the whole reason they parked it in orbit for over a month was so that national coverage of the US rover would die down...assuming that theirs doesn’t do a ‘ Schiaparelli‘...
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:29:11 AM PDT
by
logi_cal869
(-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
To: proud American in Canada
The Canada arm 2 is on the iss, I believe the one on the shuttle was just the Canada arm
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:31:07 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: logi_cal869
Well the chinks are not doing a good job of that, I really hope it fails to land
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:32:34 AM PDT
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: proud American in Canada
‘Sputnik’ means ‘satellite’ in Russian, iirc.
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:34:12 AM PDT
by
Joe Brower
("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
To: BenLurkin
I wonder what they’ll name the crater.
To: proud American in Canada
What a beautiful culture! They name their space equipment after what...God and Godesses? *rolls eyes*
Whereas Americans and Canadians have more utilitarian names, like Challenger, The Canadian Arm (not sure what it’s called in English but it helped the space shuttle get repaired, I think), Rover, etc. The name for the Canadian robot arm of the space shuttle was "Fisto Roboto"
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posted on
05/13/2021 9:46:33 AM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
To: Flag_This
I wonder what they’ll name the crater.Bam Ding Ow
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posted on
05/13/2021 10:03:42 AM PDT
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: Tell It Right
If the China Mars mission is a SUCCESS, the people in China will hear reports about how awesomely successful it was and how it proved Sino supremacy over evil capitalist Americans and that will be the last they hear about it.
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posted on
05/13/2021 10:06:14 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: BenLurkin
Our next Rover needs to be armed to deal with Red invaders.
To: proud American in Canada
We started off that way. Our first three programs were...
Mercury
Gemini
Apollo
Our rocket names carry on that way.
Thor
Minotaur
Titan
Atlas
etc...
Nothing wrong with the Chicoms doing that from my perspective. It’s better than the old Soviet way of Soyuz (Union), Foton (Photon), Luna (moon), etc. Pretty dry naming convention.
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posted on
05/13/2021 11:52:24 AM PDT
by
Textide
(Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
To: Textide
Thank you so much! I suppose you’re right. Every country should give names to their space equipment as it sees fit.
If those names are important to them, well, it’s “none of my beeswax.”
Thanks again for your post. Just so tired of having to face the one existential threat after another.
I think President Trump was one of the only presidents who didn’t age dramatically in office. Says a lot about his love for America and his stamina/work ethic.
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posted on
05/13/2021 1:16:46 PM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(As Patrick Henry once said, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death!" Especially now.)
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