China Announces 60 Ton Space Station, To Be Completed By 2020 - Polidicks

[QUOTE=humpalump;29494265]There's a chink in the hull! [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Racism" - Swebonny))[/highlight][/QUOTE] Fucking beautiful.

Looks like China just copied Space Station designs from other countries. I was hoping China would try something new.

[QUOTE=superdinoman;29495672]NASA openly shares most, if not all, of their experiment information. Thats kind of the point of scientific research.[/QUOTE] Who rated this funny? [url]http://ntrs.nasa.gov/[/url] Here are the blueprints and CFD data of everything all the way up to 'how to build your own space shuttle'. Go nuts*. *I take no responsibility for ITAR violations.

[QUOTE=Shoe Phone;29499795]Looks like China just copied Space Station designs from other countries. I was hoping China would try something new.[/QUOTE] Space stations lack almost no rocket science. If a previous design worked, use it and then improve on it. Also, this is China. They are known for copying everything.

There's really no reason to care, just like the rest of the Chinese space program the entire thing will be built and operated in total secrecy.

Rather small but I can't say I expected something big from the Chinese.

thats outta this world

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;29500414]There's really no reason to care, just like the rest of the Chinese space program the entire thing will be built and operated in total secrecy.[/QUOTE] And all milestones will have been done by the USSR and the US decades ago.

[QUOTE=Contag;29500537]And all milestones will have been done by the USSR and the US decades ago.[/QUOTE] Come to think of it, most of the USSR's space activities were carried out in total secrecy too, and didn't come to light until after the collapse.

Eudoxia is our local awesome scientist :3:

[QUOTE=Swebonny;29495092]Yeah, but most the people that have been caught doing that stuff has been executed. Quite harsh, but then it's China we're talking about. I mean it's not like the government likes that the people are doing that. It harms people and only adds up to the already bad image that China got. Some examples (not a flattering list): [URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China[/URL][/QUOTE] I appreciate you providing me this list. It certainly added many incidents I didn't have a clue about because I only heard about the widely publicized ones. Now when someone tries to claim China isn't that bad with corruption and regulations, I can point to this list. Don't know of any other country that has to [B]execute[/B] company executives to prevent them from deliberately poisoning food and toys but this is China we're talking about.

What's Chinese for Mir 2.0?

[QUOTE=Ridge;29501321]What's Chinese for Mir 2.0?[/QUOTE] Sum Ting Wong

[QUOTE=RBM11;29501432]Sum Ting Wong[/QUOTE] :v: So original

HOORAY, our entire species is saved! Everyone climb aboard!

Less space stations more colonisation of the moon\mars. or make the space stations self-sustainable.

[QUOTE=superdinoman;29501437]:v: So original[/QUOTE] Yeah I wasn't really going for originality lol

I lol'd at this for some reason

[QUOTE=Swebonny;29493627]Would be really cool if they looked towards the private space corporations.[/QUOTE] No we need to keep capitalism out of orbit.

At least some countries actually care about space exploration, unlike America with it's shutting down of the shuttle program and cutting NASA's funding.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;29493627]Would be really cool if they looked towards the private space corporations.[/QUOTE] Its China, 99.9% chance it will be state-owned.

I'm glad someone other than America is doing it. If we did, the schedule would go from "by 2020", to "by 2040", to "by 2100", to "fuck it, let's spend the budget on missiles".

[QUOTE=Tyrannosaur;29512158]At least some countries actually care about space exploration, unlike America with it's shutting down of the shuttle program and cutting NASA's funding.[/QUOTE] [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2010]Its budget is rising.[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/420990main_FY_201_%20Budget_Overview_1_Feb_2010.pdf]Here it is from NASA if you don't believe me.[/url] That increase is because NASA needs it to work on manned deep-space travel and contracting to private companies because of [url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-15/politics/obama.space_1_space-investments-constellation-program-international-space-station?_s=PM:POLITICS]what President Obama mandated[/url] instead of Former President Bush's quite frankly stupid, useless, and over-budget moon mission. Furthermore, the space shuttles are old (they were supposed to be replaced around a decade ago) and unreliable. It's about time we replace them and it's about time a private company *cough*SpaceX*cough* took up the reigns.

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;29514206][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2010]Its budget is rising.[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/420990main_FY_201_%20Budget_Overview_1_Feb_2010.pdf]Here it is from NASA if you don't believe me.[/url] That increase is because NASA needs it to work on manned deep-space travel and contracting to private companies because of [url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-15/politics/obama.space_1_space-investments-constellation-program-international-space-station?_s=PM:POLITICS]what President Obama mandated[/url] instead of Former President Bush's quite frankly stupid, useless, and over-budget moon mission. Furthermore, the space shuttles are old (they were supposed to be replaced around a decade ago) and unreliable. It's about time we replace them and it's about time a private company *cough*SpaceX*cough* took up the reigns.[/QUOTE] To further support this, the Space Shuttle was supposed to be decommissioned *two* decades ago, not just one.

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;29514206][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2010]Its budget is rising.[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/420990main_FY_201_%20Budget_Overview_1_Feb_2010.pdf]Here it is from NASA if you don't believe me.[/url] That increase is because NASA needs it to work on manned deep-space travel and contracting to private companies because of [url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-15/politics/obama.space_1_space-investments-constellation-program-international-space-station?_s=PM:POLITICS]what President Obama mandated[/url] instead of Former President Bush's quite frankly stupid, useless, and over-budget moon mission. Furthermore, the space shuttles are old (they were supposed to be replaced around a decade ago) and unreliable. It's about time we replace them and it's about time a private company *cough*SpaceX*cough* took up the reigns.[/QUOTE] If I get that internship, I am going to be the happiest motherfucker on the block.

[QUOTE=Contag;29494318]"I'm sorry, but SpaceX had one of the best proposals of all time," Mars, man. Get investing China![/QUOTE] you realize china already has long term plans to use the moon as both a mine and a construction area to put men on not only mars but the asteroid belt. China considers the belt the next gold rush in a manner of speaking. [editline]30th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;29514206][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Budget#Annual_budget.2C_1958-2010]Its budget is rising.[/url] [url=http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/420990main_FY_201_%20Budget_Overview_1_Feb_2010.pdf]Here it is from NASA if you don't believe me.[/url] That increase is because NASA needs it to work on manned deep-space travel and contracting to private companies because of [url=http://articles.cnn.com/2010-04-15/politics/obama.space_1_space-investments-constellation-program-international-space-station?_s=PM:POLITICS]what President Obama mandated[/url] instead of Former President Bush's quite frankly stupid, useless, and over-budget moon mission. Furthermore, the space shuttles are old (they were supposed to be replaced around a decade ago) and unreliable. It's about time we replace them and it's about time a private company *cough*SpaceX*cough* took up the reigns.[/QUOTE] SpaceX maybe but we need corporations to look to space as a way to become very profitable from a mining outlook.

[QUOTE=MIPS;29496389]I can already smell the formaldehyde.[/QUOTE] You should probably move your PC to a different room then

[QUOTE=ewitwins;29515836]If I get that internship, I am going to be the happiest motherfucker on the block.[/QUOTE] And then you'll smuggle me in. RIGHT?

One question: How are they going to get that much lead in orbit?

60 Tons... How many Stones is that?