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‘America the Beautiful’: China’s Curious Take-off Tune for Tiangong 1 [VIDEO]
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| 09/30/11
Posted on 09/30/2011 7:18:25 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Friday, September 30, 2011 6:01 PM EDT
‘America the Beautiful’: China’s Curious Take-off Tune for Tiangong 1 [VIDEO]
By IBTimes Staff Reporter
The Chinese public gathered to watch the highly-publicized launch of Tiangong-1 space lab on Thursday, and they were treated to a decidedly bizarre musical selection.
To celebrate the launch, the Chinese space agency and China Central Television (CCTV) -- the major state television broadcaster in mainland China -- released a proud animation of the "Heavenly Palace" set to the tune of -- wait for it -- "America the Beautiful."
That's right, the song regarded by many as the unofficial national anthem of the U.S., which features lyrics like "America! America! God shed his grace on thee," underscored one of the most important technological accomplishments in Chinese history.
"America the Beautiful," composed by a New York church organist in 1882, has long been a favorite of U.S. patriots. It has even been proposed several times as a replacement for "The Star Spangled Banner."
Millions tuned in to CCTV to watch the take-off on Thursday which featured an orchestrated version of the oh-so-American song.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americabeautiful; china; tiangong1
This is like playing Prussian anthem at a Polish state ceremony.
To: TigerLikesRooster; Tainan; hedgetrimmer; Unam Sanctam; taxesareforever; Avenger; prion; Iris7; ...
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:19:23 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster; KevinDavis; SunkenCiv
haha... they are SO funny.
I hope a private space venture beats them to the moon
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:26:12 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Giving sardonic thanks for all the American tech that was purchased and stolen to make the thing possible?
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:29:01 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I was getting CCTV on my FiOS for a while there, ech.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:29:07 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: Ronin
I seem to remember Clinton...
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:31:00 PM PDT
by
bannie
("The gov't that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
Surely in tribute to Slick Willie’s efforts to funnel US technology to the ChiComs.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:31:25 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(You can't discuss Camelot without mentioning Squire Ted & the Lady in the Lake.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Is this tune an American original? Or is it borrowed from an earlier song?
But the most important question is who gives a shiite?
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:33:39 PM PDT
by
arrogantsob
(Why do They hate her so much?)
To: TigersEye
Ping.
Now, knock-off music...
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:35:52 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Ronin; bannie; Amagi
Special credits should be given to:
Slick Willie — sell-out-in-chief aka “Our Man in Washington” to Chinese
Bernie Schwartz — nose-cone improvement of Long March rocket
Hazel O’Leary — handing out critical data for nuclear weapons as Sec of DOE. For free.
Diane Feinstein — profiteer from China connection
and many more...
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:40:23 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: arrogantsob
Both lyric and music composed by Americans in 19th Century. CCTV has no way to duck around this incident, claiming that Americans adapted earlier tune which had nothing to do with America.
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posted on
09/30/2011 7:44:45 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The earlier tune was "O Mother Dear, Jerusalem" (1883), inspired by the description of the New Jerusalem in Revelation 21. You can listen to it
here.
To: Army Air Corps
One of the oldest existent cultures in the world with scores of technological firsts is now reduced to plagiarizing nearly everything. All you can do is laugh though when the kid at the drivethrough window says “flies with that?”
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posted on
09/30/2011 8:54:01 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hopefully, this isn’t a ‘heavenly omen.’ In times past, the Taoist soothsayers would have been working overtime.
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posted on
09/30/2011 11:51:41 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(O-voters: wanted Uberman, got Underdog....)
To: tanuki
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posted on
10/01/2011 2:06:44 AM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: GeronL
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posted on
10/01/2011 6:32:06 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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