Posted on 10/20/2008 8:47:43 PM PDT by Flavius
In the wake of China’s recent successful spacewalk and safe return of their three taikonauts, there have been concerns floating around the Internet over the microsatellite that was released at the end of this mission. Called the BX-1 in the official satellite catalog, and also referred to as CompanionSat, it was a very small cube approximately 40 centimeters on a side (16 inches) and weighing around 40 kilograms (90 pounds).
(Excerpt) Read more at thespacereview.com ...
all your technology belong to us!
yeah trading on margin is great
Well, ladies and gentlemen, we’re not here to indulge in fantasy, but in political and economic reality. America, America has become a second-rate power. Its trade deficit and its fiscal deficit are at nightmare proportions. Now, in the days of the free market, when our country was a top industrial power, there was accountability to the stockholder. The Carnegies, the Mellons, the men that built this great industrial empire, made sure of it because it was their money at stake. Today, management has no stake in the company!
It’s only part of the plan to enhance their free trade positions.
Read the article at the link....I’m sure you’ll find it interesting.
the 2nd Amandment garentees our right to keep weapons so I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that chinese wanna have weapons too. Course they don’t have a Bill of Rights, but we do and if we can have weapons I guess so can they. Just so long as ours are bigger.
>Part of the justification for this policy is that the US sees other nations, specifically China, developing capabilities that could be used to attack US space assets. But China also sees the United States developing capabilities to counter its national interests along with military doctrine for space dominance with clear guidelines for offensive counterspace and national policy indicating that the US can and will deny adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests. And so China seeks to develop technologies and doctrine to counter the perceived capabilities of the United States.<
Meanwhile the USAF continues to slash funding to space programs. How much longer before the Chinese catch up?
comrade obamao has said that he intends to cut funding
for the militarization of space.
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