Comments on: We Have Contact: Chinese Spacecraft Docks With Orbiting Module http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/20/we-have-contact-chinese-spacecraft-docks-with-orbiting-module/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: floodmouse http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/20/we-have-contact-chinese-spacecraft-docks-with-orbiting-module/#comment-33399 floodmouse Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:49:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=37886#comment-33399 LOL - If "capitalism" is really what is at stake, aren't we going in the right direction by letting private firms take over? ;) LOL – If “capitalism” is really what is at stake, aren’t we going in the right direction by letting private firms take over? ;)

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/20/we-have-contact-chinese-spacecraft-docks-with-orbiting-module/#comment-33398 Brian Too Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:19:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=37886#comment-33398 No, we've been advancing the cooperation message during the entire ISS experience. If we want different results we need a different approach. I suggest the following. Start beating the war drums about the "space station gap"! It worked for bombers, it worked for missiles, it worked for satellites and it worked for the lunar space race. Ignore the fact that it's nonsense, political pandering and/or tribalism. In fact, those are it's key advantages! You heard it here first. The Chinese are opening up a space station gap and Capitalism is threatened! Democracy is at stake! Our women could suffer a fate worse than death!! No, we’ve been advancing the cooperation message during the entire ISS experience. If we want different results we need a different approach.

I suggest the following. Start beating the war drums about the “space station gap”! It worked for bombers, it worked for missiles, it worked for satellites and it worked for the lunar space race. Ignore the fact that it’s nonsense, political pandering and/or tribalism. In fact, those are it’s key advantages!

You heard it here first. The Chinese are opening up a space station gap and Capitalism is threatened! Democracy is at stake! Our women could suffer a fate worse than death!!

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