[BenLurkin]

Give us a hint.

[SeniorMoment]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4340102.stm

[SeniorMoment]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4340102.stm

[SeniorMoment]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4340102.stm

[BenLurkin]

Here goes:

China's Shenzhou VI spacecraft is not orbiting exactly as planned and will have to be restored to its original trajectory, state-run media say.
The "orbit maintenance operation" would take place early on Friday morning, said official news agency Xinhua.

Gravity has drawn Shenzhou VI too close to earth, the agency said.

Shenzhou VI, which has two astronauts on board, is in a low enough orbit to be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull.

It spent a second day in orbit on Thursday, making it China's longest manned space flight.

Xinhua quoted experts as saying the procedure to fix craft's orbit would be a "normal technical operation".

Nonetheless, the agency said, experts were urging all scientific and technological staff to be "cautious".


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4340102.stm

[pipecorp]

The skylab is falling! The skylab is falling!

[Right Wing Assault]

Shenzhou VI, which has two astronauts on board, is in a low enough orbit to be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull.

If this is how China 'understands' orbital mechanics, they will never reach the moon. Maybe this is just a bad translation or a popularized version. Or maybe it is the morons at the BBC interjecting their typical errors.

Even the moon, a quarter million miles away, "is in a low enough orbit to be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull".

What they should have said is that the satellite is being affected too much by the earth's thin atmosphere.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Last year the US graduated 73,000 engineers, China graduated over 370,000. I would not become to complacent in your smugness.

I can recall when all the talk was about Japs couldn't see, they could never fly planes, wouldn't and couldn't fight, etc, etc, etc et al. Took Pearl Harbor and four years of hard fighting to dispel that little myth.

I can recall talk that Japs could only build cheap toys and cameras from C-rat cans. How many cars in the US are built in Jap owned plants, how many Jap vehicles are sold in the US?

It is better to overestimate, than underestimate your adversary.

[dr_who_2]

From the BBC story:

Shenzhou VI, which has two astronauts on board, is in a low enough orbit to be affected by the Earth's gravitational pull.

I'm no fan of NASA these days, but our rocket scientists are no doubt better than Chinese rocket scientists or British journalists. And I mean it.

[Petey139]

I hope the shuttle crashes in mecca, With pig sperm in the shuttle imagine it being spilled on the soil soiling mecca with sacred substances.