Posted on 12/12/2007 2:16:36 AM PST by Flavius
BEIJING - President Hu Jintao congratulated China's military and scientists at a ceremony Wednesday to celebrate the successful launch of a moon probe. ADVERTISEMENT
Hu devoted much of a live nationwide television broadcast to praising the country's socialist system, along with its military and scientific community, for ensuring the success of the Chang'e 1 lunar satellite.
China launched the probe in late October with plans to have it survey the entire surface of the moon over the next year. It began sending photos back to Earth several weeks ago.
"Our deep-space exploration is for peaceful purposes," Hu told an audience of Communist Party officials, schoolchildren and military officers gathered at Beijing's Great Hall of the People.
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1. Sun Tzu said: We may distinguish six kinds of terrain, to wit: (1) Accessible ground; (2) entangling ground; (3) temporizing ground; (4) narrow passes; (5) precipitous heights; (6) positions at a great distance from the enemy.-Tzu Guy
"Our deep-space exploration is for peaceful purposes," Hu
well thats nice, maybe they can bring up a broom next time they fly their cans up there
Their peaceful fruits of labor
A lesson Islamist have yet to learn.
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