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Sun Feb-08-09 05:32 PM
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Proof China Faked Their Spacewalk |
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Sun Feb-08-09 06:31 PM
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1. Wow. They really spent some time on that. |
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Sun Feb-08-09 08:01 PM
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Not saying I'm completely convinced, I'm a skeptic by nature, but interesting nonetheless. . . .
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Sun Feb-08-09 09:33 PM
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3. I like the "please no racism" warning at the end |
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As if racists always knuckle under to polite requests.
I think most people know this is only proof of anti totalitarian statism. Well, they might lie & fake a space walk, but at least they seem to value their astronauts' lives enough to not risk it when the engineering isn't there. I have a hard time believing our government & Russia's didn't know already it's been faked; certainly if China's sending up astronauts, the orbiting craft are being tracked from multiple stations
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Sun Feb-08-09 09:36 PM
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4. For what it's worth, the Bad Astronomy blog seems to believe the Chinese |
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Sun Feb-08-09 11:02 PM
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5. The same BS claims were made about Leonov's EVA in 1965 |
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Edited on Sun Feb-08-09 11:09 PM by LastDemocratInSC
The EVA by the Chinese was real ... we have had over 40 years of EVA activity in the US space program and that's plenty of time to learn what a real EVA looks like. Opening an airlock frequently leads to the escape of lightweight materials as the last wisps of air escape. It has happened for decades.
On the moon, during the Apollo era, the opening of the hatch was most often accompanied by an outward rush of the remaining air in the LM and the instant formation of condensation as the pressure approached zero PSI. It was a dramatic event.
I remember in 1965 reading the same claims about Leonov's EVA, which was the first in history. There were claims about it having been faked in a water tank and the appearance of bubbles, etc. Those claims, which were shown to be BS, were made in pulp magazines; these claims of the EVA being faked are no better.
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