🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 16:52:49 +1100, Laplace <laplace@hotkey.net.au>
wrote:

>Good question.
>They goals have already been set very seriously.
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>It's all about money and national security.
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>Their primary goal is technological break through in medical,
>agriculture, military information warfare, material engineering and long
>term establishment in outer space to conduct experiments no possible on
>earth. These researchs are crucial for the areas of high technologies
>which will contribute immersely to economic competitiveness. Economic is
>all about transfering technology into products you can sell on the
>market.
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>Their primary goal for next century is the Moon and Mars landing. Manned
>or unmanned is not sure at this stage. Given the economic might China
>will posses, overtaking US in GDP (ppp) by 2008, there is no reason to

Do you have anything to back this up?  I for one don't particularly
like the idea of a Communist country becoming the richest.  WWIII here
we come....

>doubt China cannot do what Americans have done.
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>Michael P. Walsh wrote:
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>> I will just post that I have been very skeptical of the
>> Chinese claims at being close to a manned flight and
>> it appears that once  more I have been wrong.
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>> Of course, one of the reasons for my skepticism was
>> the lack of a test flight of this sort.  However, another
>> reason was wondering just what kind of goal they
>> had in mind.
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>> Perhaps all will become clearer in the future.  If I read
>> the newspapers correctly they intend at least one more
>> unmanned test flight.  If that is successfully there seems
>> no reason why they can't orbit and recover one or
>> more humans.  ( I am not sure if they have female pilots ).
>>
>> Mike Walsh
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