Congratulations China:
 

The lift off to the space station looked great. Stunning would be a better description.

O.P.

Yes. Fantastic. Only 45 yrs late. And meanwhile on a street corner in Beijing, the air is about as breathable as the air in the Ruhr valley.... 30 years ago.
Anyone up for a spot of internet censoring ?

Agreed, splendid achievement.

Why are they building their own space station, not cooperating with the international one already up there?

Very good.

Pedagogy:
 

Globocnik:
I don't have the faintest idea about where those figures come from but what is apparent is that you are not very well informed about China. 3o to 45 years in their scheme of things is nothing. You have possibly never heard of the large billboard on the main highway leading into the space centre city of Jiuquan (九泉）which is located on the edge of the Gobi desert. Just for you, this is what it simply and starkly says in both Chinese and English ---- "Without haste, Without fear we Conquer the world".
You can add to this by speculating that after 5000 years of patient waiting. watching and learning this is at last China's appointed time. (Simon Winchester 2008).

O.P.

What's the old saying? Americans have all the watches but Chinese have all the time.

Correct, I'm not that well versed with the last 2000 years of Chinese history, other than the exploits of Mao, and indeed much of that is redacted; much of the rest of it has been about wallowing in buffaloe ****. I prefer the slightly more interesting period of mid 20c. Western history, however each to their own. It would appear, however, that Western influence is on the wane. If it is China's appointed time, God help us all. Thankfully I'll be long underground before they can f@ck up too much more of the planet and bring their own brand of autocratic venal pseudo Marxism to the rest of us.
Chairman Mao. ? Yes let's look up to him whilst we're at shall we ? Made the Fuhrer and Uncle Joe look like rank amateurs in the genocide stakes.
Anyway, good luck in space. Perhaps they could encourage space tourism, for their own people of course. Stop the rest of them ****ting in the street, defacing hieroglyphics, aborting unborn female foetuses, and behaving like peasants around the rest of the world.
Good luck with conquering the World. Hopefully the Rest of the World doesn't f@cking want it.

The biggest surviving Dictatorship - beware of China. They are a law unto themselves and big enough to not care a damn what you think of it.
They are clever and good at business. Been to Africa lately?? Quiet takeover going on and all that mineral wealth will be stripped whilst the ruling classes are organising their corrupt millions, the Chinese are organising asset stripping Billions - believe me!!

OP, maybe lay off the cool aid a little......

Im sure they will find some Martian and abuse his human right too!🤔

jolihokistix:
Give me one good reason why China should even consider co-operating in space when Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State is on record as saying "we will ring China with missiles".

Arfur:
I'm sure you will be pleased to note as I am that the DC3/C47 recently supplied by Australia to the Flying Tigers Historical Organization in Guilin has crossed the hump and is now on Chinese soil in Kunming.

airdualbleedfault:
I always thought cool aid was exclusively and infamously an American thing.

O.P.

The single reason they don't let the Chinese play with the other kids on the International Space Station is....

By the time the Chinese get back to Earth, you would be able to buy a genuine International Space Station in Shenzhen.

I love a bit of comedy !
Anyone who thinks China is going to rule the world has clearly never been to China.

How is that ARJ21 going, launched in 2002 and .....

Or that Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier that even the Russkis condemned. ?
One belt, one road, one who gives a f@ck.

Someone seems not happy to anything, simply pathetic!

Someone asked why they didn't just join the ISS already there?

Bloody simple answer, they don't want anyone knowing what they are up to in space.

Yeah maybe they have nuclear weapons up there already. Maybe. Maybe not. The more likely answer is that they don't want to have to share their Space Station (or a Flightdeck) with any Ozstranauts. Who does?

@Globocnik #8

Thx mate. Saved me all that typing. Owe you at least a pint or two just for that one. F_ukc... I'm already bored with this g*damned board after only 2 minutes. Ima go sit outside a 7-11 and hurl empty beer bottles at passing cars..... cheers.

The docking with the space lab was faultless or if you wish perfect.

O.P.

Whatever you say.......

Docking:
 

ACMS:

The actual instrument indications of the docking were shown in close up detail on Beijing TV. It was like flying an ILS with both the G/S and LOC running on rails. What a shame you didn't see it.

O.P.

Congratulations! Everyone is definitely going to follow your lead!! Oh, wait....

box

I guess everyone else besides the soviets should've just called it a day and stayed home after Yuri did his lap in 61 - After all, someone else did it first already, why bother even trying?

OP

So you're a patriot. Mazeltov.

China's achievements in orbital sciences is impressive, albeit a few decades late.

Do you want to hear accolades for China's achievements? I'd be the first to stand and applaud when the Chinese geriocracy...

Withdraws from Tibet.
Acknowledges human rights
Quits its policy of paranoid internet censorship.
Withdraws support for North Korea.
Stops state sponsored DDOS and hacking of state institutions and defence contractors.
And finally...
STOPS USING 121.5 AS A CHAT FREQUENCY FFS!

What has the launch got to do with FH anyway?

Cpt. Underpants;

Appreciate the congratulations, thank you.
The rest of your post is a reflection of political interference by you know who. Any comment from me to you regarding what you have said is thus a waste of time.

O.P.

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better mate.

As we say here in Aus, "good on ya mate"

NOTAM: Ocean Person is a Beijing stooge who routinely comes here to sing the praises of his beloved leaders from the party.

Not that I mean to diminish the achievements of China's space endeavors - I think they're doing cool stuff - but I just can't stand a bloke who can't think for himself and blindly idolizes self-serving politicians he didn't even elect...

I think you will find OP lives far away from the great wall, in his retirement.

He enjoys the comforts a democracy affords, but thrives on poking sticks into the ant's nest for the cheap entertainment it provides.

Wrong forum....mods please remove.

Love the hypocrisy.
So when will the west-
Withdraw from the middle east?
Close Gitmo?
Exhonorate Snowden?
Withdraws support from the Saudis?
Who do you think has got more evesdropping assets - Beijing or the CIA?
121.5. Do you actually understand the chatter or might you actually be interfering with official usage with your guard policing?
Future launches will be off Hainan island - should be a hell of a show.

Re:
The space station; they needed more time to hack & copy everyone else's space station technology before they could build their own !
Funny story re the ARJ21; I was walking down Nathan road and when directly in front of Chungking mansions a guy approached me wearing a trench coat and when he grabbed the lapels and flashed open the jacket he asked me "copy DC9 ??"

Mr. Fox

Yes, I do understand the chatter. Why it can't be relegated to 123.45 like EVERYONE ELSE is beyond me. 121.5 is sacrosanct. It's meant to save lives. My reaction now to the mindless blathering in Chinese airspace is to mute it. Good luck when someone really needs help.

I won't be drawn into an argument over Gitmo or the ME as I fail to see the relationship between China's imperialism, paranoia and the raving loonies that threaten very idea of educated women, freedom of speech, culture, and the thought that anything other than their "religion of peace" has a place in the world.

In case you haven't figured it out, welcome to the new crusades. Stop them dead or or live (and very likely, die) under the heel of radical Islam.

Yes please mods. Please remove.

Unfortuantely there are no Germans to copy this time around.
So did you take up his offer to grab his "copy DC9"?
Did it grow into a "stretched" -88 afterwards?

I'm guessing you are the culprit behind all those cathay lost comm incidents then? Good job!
http://youtu.be/Y4Zdx97A63s
Good luck crusader.

Where's that "ignore" button?
Ah, that feels better!

Yes the space race was won before most of us were born:

C'mon, space is perfect for the chinese manufacturing industry! they have it perfected to make something that lasts only once! "Brave" boys strapping themselves to a Chinese rocket. :8

Well, it's been five years since anyone in the west has had the capability of launching a human into earth orbit (and likely to be at least two more years before we have the capability again) In comparison, it was eight years from Alan Shepard's sub-orbital flight to Neil Armstrong's 'one small step' on the moon :eek:
Kudo's to China - at least for the near future they are capable of doing something impressive that the West threw away...:ugh: