RE: While the US is fighting over the debt, China is planning to go to the moon
January 4, 2012 at 2:17 pm
(January 4, 2012 at 1:02 pm)Chuck Wrote:(January 4, 2012 at 12:16 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Break new ground? Much of China's technology to put men in space came from the Russians (their capsule is a Russian design). And their computer technology came from the United States.
That's not the point. Any late comer stupid enough to try to reinvent the wheel is probably too stupid to successfully reinvent anything. Their capsule is not quite a Russian design. It uses the highly effficient Soyuz layout, but is larger in every dimension, and betrays every internal difference that is possible to observe from the outside.
Incidentally, we would have done better to copy the efficient Soyuz layout than repeat the louzy apollo layout. thanks to the separation of orbital working module from the heat shielded crew return module in the Soyuz, the basic Soyuz design offer more working and living space and more instrument capacity at much less weight than Apollo.
I don't disagree with you about the Apollo part II being a bad idea. I've said it from the first day they rolled it out.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
