China's Tiangong 1 space station unveiled for tiny Taikonauts
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Jan 26th 2009 7:21AM
posted Jan 26th 2009 7:21AM
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Next stop, Orbital Chinese Takeaway.
As a China man, I say to you: "Bastard!"
Made me chuckle though :)
+1
What is this? A station for ants?
TimStevens: Did you not read the first 6 words of the article?
@Manny did you not see Zulander?
RTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFA
emphasis on the F
Wow, Manny, Cube, you suck.
The station needs to be at least... three times this size!
He's absolutely right.
How can we be expected to send them into space if they can't even fit in the capsule!?
@absinthe party
Well, I guess we can always chop our astronauts into pieces with a chinese cleaver, stuff them into the capsule, and send them into space. and then we bring them back, pull them out, sew them back together piece by piece.
@ittybittytittykitty
They already do what you just described.......to dissidents :P
take it there aren't a lot of Zoolander fans on Engadget... sorry OP.
Yeah, this is ridic. Do you people even watch movies?
How are they even going to fit the files in there, let alone the computer?
hahahaha.
Epic lulz were had by all .. Except Manny, cause he lives in a hole.
Its a umpa lumpa station. They are going to build a death star and get back at all of us for humiliating them.
HAHAHAHA !
well its a good thing the pentagon just admitted it has satelites that can take out other sateites/chinese space thingys
http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/26/pentagon-admits-to-having-spy-satellites
thats not my site and not my article....didnt think engadget wanted me linking to the giz since they wont post it :)
I hope they give it orbital death lasers.
Otherwise what's the point?
This is fantastic news. Just imagine what the Chinese will produce once America start repaying their debts.
They need to start Inter-planetary missions!*
*Carl Sagan agrees.
In 6 years, they will have a new year in space.
C'mon.
The thing will need to be at least...twice as big.
Yea, size matters. And now we know why so many Chinese women in the US choose to date black or white guys :)
canis..... you just dont get it.
@Canis:
Wow, Hollywood has really rot your brain.
@ Penis_minor:
"Yea, size matters. And now we know why so many Chinese women in the US choose to date black or white guys :)"
For the same reasons that Japanese and Korean women do, right? As well as all asian women, right? Stupid fucktard.
penis_minor:
go kill yourself, and do not breed before you do you've wasted enough air and food already.
Why don't we just give 'em a good deal on the "International" Space Station?
w00t!
It really irritates me that things that are labelled as "international" generally are in fact nowhere near.
When will people realise that the whole concept of nationality became rediculous when international business and travel became widely accessable. We are all human beings, why not share and so speed up our development?
Conclusion: We need some kind of global event to highlight how insignificant our differences and quarrels really are. Our whole planet could be wiped out tomorrow by a freak gamma burst or meteorite and on a universal scale no one would care.
Also, I might as well say it. There is no god and the religious' pitiful need to justify their own existence is laughable.
@Kabadisha
John Lennon said exactly the same thing as you did, and look at how he ended up!
Use caution, my friend....
thats cause they wont let china join. so we have to build our own shit.
"Heavenly palace", not "heavenly place."
Either way, sounds like a massaga parlour. :)
Nice Skylab there.
What is old is new again.
That's what I was thinking...
Anyone care to place a bet on if this thing will have weapons on it in some form or another?
Its a little more difficult to do on the IIS since its an international coalition when it comes to the module design. I mean several were designed by Russia , several by the US, one by Japan, several by the EU. Kinda hard to design a nuke payload into the thing when so many fingers are in the pie.
Whats the point of putting a nuke payload on it when you have ICBMs anyway ?
I mean it would propably just vaporate and explode while entering the athmosphere rendering it useless as a weapon to attack the ground.
Unless you want to declare war on the moon-people, in that case thumbs up.
Orbital nukes take way less time to reach a target then ones being launch from mainland. Plus you have the fact that its a foregone conclusion that the US and every other superpower out there has satellites aimed at each other to detect any launches. More difficult on a space station that requires only moderate power to realign itself. Retasking a satellite is difficult. As for re entering the atmosphere. materials, trajectory, and the fact that a missile has less surface that can heat.....basic gist...it could be done. The question is would it.
However, attacking the moon people is very possible with this device.
You were right, and we need more swiss cheese...
Great, More Chinese space junk floating around.
Great, More Chinese space junk floating around.
Great, another anti-China bigot. I'm blaming you when China one day owns our ass in everything.
Good, to you morons arguing about why ain't they supporting the international station... if they can afford their own, why not? competition gives extra incentive to speed things up. I think its a step forward to have more than once place in space.
Competition for what? They aren't exactly running out of room up there. And we beat them in to space by what 45 years? Now, the asteroid belt, that's something we should be competing to get to. Tons of resources and no one to complain about the dead little green men we'll be chopping up in the process.
I don't think they chose to not be a part of the international station - the club didn't want them to join.
We are to stupid to realize that working together for the benefit of all humanity is the only solution.Race is on because of the greed,nothing else.
I hope it doesn't explode like 99% of other Chinese space missions, i am absolutely not anti-China but look at their track record of failed space missions (that have resulted in the death of hundreds of people may i add) it just seems disappointing that they are focusing on this when they have much more important issues to be working out within their own government.
@Tom,
I am not sure you are "not anti-China", but I am very sure that you know nothing about China.
Looking back at their track record of space missions, there is no single failure during the past 12 years. They send their men onto orbit three times during the past 5 years and last year, they made their first trial of space walk and first moon probe vehicle.
Talking about carrier rocket success rate based on the data collected from the past 30 years, Chinese owns the 2nd place just next to Europe, better than USA and Russia, much better than Japan, much much better than India.
Unfortunately in this country, we have too many arrogant and ignorant people who are just like Tom. And because of this we see our technology and economic advantage is vanishing day by day....
Tom G, you really made a fool of yourself. 99% failure rate! Where is the citation backing this claim? AFAIK, China enjoyed a far better track record than United States in terms of casualties, partly due to their not as powerful rockets and their extremely low tolerance for risks, I presume.
You can go ahead, view Chinese space station as "space junk", like JerseyBricklayer up there, because you have your every right to do so, as long as you are not providing fabricated statistics.
ok, i apologise, obviously (really, obviously) i was joking when i said 99% and don't assume i am anti-China because i think they should spend money on helping the people of China and fixing the government before space missions like this, space exploration is great and i defended China when people where saying their space walk was fake. My friends are Chinese (real Chinese, born in China) and they agree, i am not American so although i did wrongly make statements about the failure of Chinese space programs, don't assume i am American >_
Hahaha Tom you just added fuel to the fire with the anti - american respond.