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Chinese Eyes Territorial Claim Of Outer Space
spacedaily.com ^
| 21 Jan 02
| Wei Long
Posted on 01/20/2002 7:59:42 PM PST by RightWhale
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China has a plan. Their plan does not include NASA or America.
To: RightWhale
We should claim the moon and mars for America now and start developing space weapons systems.
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posted on
01/20/2002 8:04:01 PM PST
by
weikel
To: weikel
I got dibs on Uranus!
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww. Not enough sunlight for it to ever be habitable even with terraforming the moon is critical asa future base to mine the asteroid belt.
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posted on
01/20/2002 8:07:21 PM PST
by
weikel
To: RightWhale
China has a plan. Their plan does not include NASA or America. I think their plan is called "taking the high ground"....
This could lead to a very interesting war.... if WE don't capitulate before it starts.
To: weikel
The 1967 United Nations "Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space This treaty is meaningless, just some nice-sounding words. America should serve notice and withdraw from the treaty.
To: weikel
To: RightWhale
Of course it does. Without Nasa or America they couldn't even send a rocket over the ocean. There can be no doubt that any space plan of the Chinese would heavily depend on American technology in order to have any chance of success.
To: longshadow
The US Air Force talks about the high ground, America must take it and hold it. Sounds like a direct challenge from China, but it's just words so far. When they finally get their taikonauts in orbit, that challenge will be hard to ignore, even in Congress. A space war is more than possible.
To: RedBloodedAmerican
I got dibs on... Whose???
To: RightWhale
Bla Bla Bla......they cant even take over Tiwan and its 90 miles away. Im not too worried.
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01/20/2002 8:14:00 PM PST
by
Husker24
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Awesome picture, RBA....who did it???
To: Tennessee_Bob
Don't know. I found it actually.
To: Husker24
LOL!!
To: Tennessee_Bob
Venus Williams?
To: Tennessee_Bob
What's odd is that the image properties say it resides on the FR server:
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/caption/297/image
To: HaveGunWillTravel
any space plan of the Chinese would heavily depend on American technology What technology? America doesn't have a moon rocket anymore. America doesn't even have a plan. That's what we have been harping on for the past couple of years. NASA is dead in the water, or marooned in space, more appropriately. America is going nowhere in space.
To: Cultural Jihad
Gosh. You got me. I am the owner of the server. Pics are hosted for $5 /month. Freepmail me for payment info ;)
To: RightWhale
The Chinese space agency has a tenth of the funding of Nasa and is about 40 years behind, but at least they have a grand goal in mind. Whereas Nasa with all its resources can't do anything better than a bunch of garbage cans floating in orbit. I say a good old fashioned space race between 2 determined nations can be far more productive than an international consortium effort.
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posted on
01/20/2002 8:25:01 PM PST
by
borghead
To: RightWhale
oh well. What do I know? Made sense when I wrote it.
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