Chinese to Launch Manned Spaceflight Next Week

[Agathon]

Apparently he'll be called a "taikonaut" and will be wearing a spiffy cream-coloured spacesuit.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64214-2003Oct8.html

I hope this goes well for the Chinese - perhaps they'll even go to the moon eventually. That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

[Nubclear]

Comrade Tassadar once attached this image, but it didn't work:

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[Agathon]

[Drake Tungsten]

That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

Why? Are we supposed to be thrilled that China has finally made it to the 1960's?

[Nubclear]

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.html

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten

That would be something for everyone to cheer about.

Why? Are we supposed to be thrilled that China has finally made it to the 1960's?

Hopefully China won't fake THEIRS!

[Kirnwaffen]

Fake their sixties? No, you have to go to NK for that.

[Drake Tungsten]

Already seen that, Tass. Every word of it is true.

[Nubclear]

Kanji are letters that were stolen from China. Every time the Japanese invaded China (which was very often) they'd just take a few more letters, so now they have an estimated 400 gazillion of them.

[Sarxis]

I really do hope the Chinese have plans to colonize the moon.

Will make NASA get off their damn asses. >:|

[DarthVeda]

Why buy a ride on the Russian space program when you can just buy the Russian space program? Seriously they buy every component they need and then declare its their space program? Next they'll be wanting the Buran...

[Q Classic]

go china!

[DaShi]

I had one of my students write on China sending a man into space. She said that they are sending a man into space to punish him for being lazy. It was really a clever and amusing story. I should send her a copy of "The Manned Missiles" by Kurt Vonnegut.

[Az]

Kanji each consist of several "strokes", which must be written in a specific order, and convey a specific meaning, like "horse", or "girl". Not only that, but Kanji can combined to form new words. For example, if you combine the Kanji for "small", and "woman", you get the word "carbeurator".

ON TOPIC: I HOPE that this will ignite another space race. But sadly, it won't.

[Drake Tungsten]

Unfortunately for me, that's actually not that far from the truth, Azazel.