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herdarkdeath t1_j1nudlc wrote

Reply to comment by planko13 in China sets out clear and independent long-term vision for space by Gari_305

China has no hope of doing anything. The depth of their innovative ability is far too poor, to surmount all the challenges of space faring. China's government and economic system just doesnt create sufficient incentive or accountability for astronauts to feel safe. All the Chinese astronauts (like the Russian astronauts), know their tech is unreliable and pretty crappy. They just put on a brave face. Then they die horribly.

America definitely has its flaws (Columbia and Challenger), but the American system is far more accountable and open. Also, Xi Jinping will have to go through a roughly 5 year period of alzheimers, and he isn't going to resign. So China's tech is largely stuck during that decade.

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ruferant t1_j1o5xfa wrote

Honestly the best thing I've read today. 'Ministry of truth' level deadpan delivery.

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LittleBirdyLover t1_j1o189g wrote

You know that despite all this baseless rhetoric, China’s crewed space program is the only one out of them that hasn’t lost an astronaut in space despite your claims of “poor accountability” and being “pretty crappy”?

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lobsterhunterer t1_j1pkc4n wrote

I wouldn't bother wasting much time on him. A few hours after he wrote this he proceeded to rant about "shitty asians" and the "shitty things asians do" on another subreddit.

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XFun16 t1_j1xt9n3 wrote

Technically speaking, no astronaut has died in space since Soyuz 11 in 1971

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planko13 t1_j1o5bwp wrote

I don't know if I share your lack of confidence in the Chinese space Agency. While I agree, they are objectively behind the USA right now, but their pace of improvement exceeds ours.

They have their own functioning space station and growing launch capability. If it wasn't for SpaceX the US would be squarely in second place.

All I was saying with my comment is that the engineers at NASA are world class, and if congress would stop dictating the "how" on space exploration and instead stick to a consistent "what" we should be able to maintain our healthy technological lead in space.

We need political incentive for NASA to do something besides just being a jobs program in various representatives districts.

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ovirt001 t1_j1wc7rx wrote

This is what happens when you can use modern consumer technology to do 60 year old things. There's no "miraculous catching up", anyone with enough money and resources can do what China is doing (in fact, Musk is doing better with less).

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