China Wants to Build Fake Moon
The CCP comes up with all sorts of great ideas, but this one takes the cake.
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Hey chris, I've done some research on Falun Gong. It turns out that the FLG magazines written in Chinese claim to be able to cure cancer and the disease that created ice bucket. Can you give some explanation.
btw, I am chinese and I don't like our party
Aren't they worried about the fake moon disrupting real, functional satellite traffic out there. I understand satellites that actually do stuff knock into one another sometimes. Isn't it kind of a waste to do all that math, engineering and rocket science just to do something that's more efficiently handled here on Earth? Street lights aren't that difficult to integrate into a town's infrastructure. I think as a species, we've mastered the streetlight.
Shelley, what is your favorite flavor of tea?
Why not just drop nuclear bombs into volcanos and harness the energy that comes out?
Chris, you often mention "Chinese state run media". Can you dig into exactly what the relationship is between the media and the communist party? What level of autonomy does the media have? are they mostly just towing the party line, or to they receive regular directives from the CCP?
I'd like an answer to this too. It seems like their homegrown news, and the foreign press from Europe and the U.S. self-censor. Maybe it's not said they can't write what they want but at least the foreign press all know if they write something the CCP views as politically incorrect, they'll lose their press visas and their cushy overseas gigs. Expense accounts, cost of living allowances and you're now the "exotic foreigner" and people are interested in talking to you when you're not even working. You're just hanging out in a bar and everyone is curious about you and you have all these friends. To quote the Scottsman: "You're the man now, dog!" It's probably all very seductive and there's a tacit understanding among everyone that you report what officials say happened but...don't rock the boat too hard. Follow-up questions are so inconvenient.
It will be an interesting balance they will have to maintain to keep that moon up and in roughly the same spot. That amount of reflected sunlight must after all make a notable push.
to keep an object in geosynchronous orbit, you have to be 22200 miles above the earth. it's impossible at 300 miles up. I'm really confused as to what the actual plan is, unless it's just to launch a space weapon while everyone scratches their heads about it.
holy shit the intro graphics look AMAZING
Good idea, if it works.