27 Replies to “Uh. Yeah.”

  1. Ya gotta hand it to Chinese capitalist marxism…it has created some wonderful technologies…like this one. This is the best photoshop image manipualtion I have ever seen 😉

  2. Ummm… Are we supposed to ignore the fact that it is utterly wasteful to ship the fuel into space to slow the descent via rocket? There are REASONS the Americans splashed down, you know.
    And how about the lack of any sort of landing legs or skids (as far as I can see)? I think you’d want those if you were going to set down like that.
    What a load of CRAP! Science fiction cover artists in the 30s had more realistic images!

  3. “This is the best photoshop image manipualtion I have ever seen 😉 ”
    I saw this picture yesterday, and wondered what Xbox game it was…
    Is a government really trying to say it’s real? I still doubt it. Like a reentry-capsule is gonna land backwards to the laws of aerodynamics. I guess the Chinese April fools day is in October.
    What’s the catch?

  4. I think the Marxist Maderins that rule China are so used to a cowed and subjugated population who accepts everything the government feeds them, that they forgot people in the west are free to be sceptics, question and demand answers when they smell fraud……what is interesting about this scenario is how the western MSM will handle it. The globalist invetment cartels have control of the Canadian federal government and the big push with globalists these days is to monopolize on China’s slave labor bonanza that drives their industrial boom….Just Sunday Martin was beaking off about dumping the US for China as a trade partener and selling them Alberta’s oil…….you will know who each MSM publication is working for by either their acceptance or silence on this obvious Chinese technical prowess fraud.
    BTW I’ve seen no international areonautical authority confirm having tracked the reentry or orbit of this Chi-com technological miracle. I think it was invisible to defense radar screens and just showed up in Chinese news print. 😉

  5. When I saw this picture, I thought it was something out of a new Hayao Miyazaki movie . . . that’s what a spaceship would look like if it were made by hobbits out of clay.
    What is up with the retro rockets??? You all are right. I think the Chinese watched too many sci-fi movies, not enough films of our splashdowns (and the Russkis’, if they could get ahold of them). You want to use a capsule in Earth’s atmosphere, there are some physical laws you’re going to have to deal with. Mr. Mackenzie is also right in that it will be interesting to see the reactions of the outside world.
    Maybe it’s just supposed to be the shots from a computer simulation of the landing? (Not that I want to give the ChiComs the benefit of the doubt, but still . . .) You know, like NASA’s animations of whatever spacecraft orbiting Jupiter, etc.? I’m sure they’re not passing them off as actual photographs. And we’ll see the real photographs soon – maybe when O.J. finds the “real killer”?

  6. Why is China doing the space thing? this is a game for the rich. Don’t get me wrong I am all for space exploration and all that leading edge science stuff but I just cant accpet it in this case. Feed your masses and then think about it maybe.

  7. Remember the faked photo of Chairman Mao swimming the Yangtze River? One would think that the Chinese would have gained more skill in photo fakery over the years. More sheng fooey is needed.

  8. I noticed a bunch of obvious artist renderings on that site I think there is probably something lost in translation if this is being considered an �official photo�.

  9. In the actual article, this picture is credited as an artist’s rendering only — the picture on the main page is actually a cropped version of a larger image that shows some rendered terrain all around it.
    Still, the image isn’t of a quality one would expect from a well-funded government bureau…one would hope that the Chinese government could afford decent graphic artists.
    The rockets firing are probably accurate, though — a little bit of research on Wikipedia shows that the Shenzhou module, like the Soyuz, uses a combination parachute/landing booster system to touch down on land.

  11. Pursuant to my last, if you look at the official pictures of the astronauts landing, you will notice that the landing module is facing upright as the 3D rendering depicts.
    As to why the artist didn’t render the landing gear…that’s anyone’s guess. Maybe mechanical legs just don’t make for “sexy” propaganda?

  12. On the Xinhua site there are a number of photos of the actual craft; the one Kate shows here is an artist’s rendering. The actual craft is a silvery-metallic and showed evidence of a lot of burn marks from the reentry.
    http://tinyurl.com/8zfab
    My guess (and bear in mind, I’m only a rocket scientist) is that the craft had a heat shield for the reentry, then shed that and used a parachute for the descent through the thickest part of the atmosphere, and would only use the retrorockets for the last few meters to cushion the landing.
    And yes, Knight, the reentry capsule lands “backwards”. That’s pretty standard, the blunt part carries the heat shield. Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Soyuz all reentered this way.
    The reason that no landing gear is evident on the artist’s conception or in the official picture is that the craft does not have any landing gear (neither does Soyuz nor the proposed CEV return vehicle).
    Momorider, any country capable of putting a man in space is also capable of delivering a ballistic missile to any target on the earth. Chew on that for a while.
    Note also that China is not a signatory to the Moon Treaty (1979), so if they manage to put a man there they might just claim the moon for themselves. Think “giant strip mine”.

  13. Nowhere does it claim that this obvious artist rendering, which is from a series of 4 such pictures, is a photo of the actual event. Clearly Drudge has led you to once again take leave of your senses–which obviously isn’t difficult.

  14. Well, to be fair, Bob, the main page to which Kate’s article links simply says “Shenzhou 6 spacecraft lands safely” beneath the cropped (and zoomed) image, which is somewhat ambiguous.
    It is only once you’re in the main article that the uncropped image is credited as an artist’s rendering.

  18. I’ve got a friend that’s still trying to get someone to pick up the lawn chair he paid $40 for when he bought a ticket to see the fabled “da Vinci project” rocket launch in Kindersley last October.
    Comparing the official Chinese picture with the da Vinci’s artist renderings…I think I recognize the same “Thunderbirds” style. Could it be the same guy??? Nahhhhh….well….could it?

  21. Now that I’ve had a second look at it, I imagine this is what one of those subwoovers look like. The kind I hear thumping past the house every night in those souped up rice rockets barreling around the curve in front of my house. Wish I had a spike belt. (or a rocket launcher!)

  24. Out of this world! Trust they are not heading for Hans Island…. do not tell Willy Graham, Def/Min/Can, or PP Pettigrew/Bruno, Freign Ministers, about this international incident. Canader has a phony “softwood” battle on with USA.: Librano$ cannot afford a second front/behind. All hans on the deck, Willy.>>>>
    Russian trawler captain ups stakes in scandal with Norway [Elektron may ram Norwegian Coast Guard]
    Posted by HAL9000
    On 10/18/2005 1:21:00 AM PDT � 6 replies � 73+ views
    RIA Novosti ^ | October 18, 2005
    MURMANSK, October 18 (RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Kozlova) – The captain of a Russian trawler at the center of a scandal in the Barents Sea said Tuesday that he could not rule out a collision with a Norwegian Coast Guard patrol boat. “I reserve the right to set on a collision course since I no longer hope for any help,” the captain of the trawler, the Elektron, said. “The crew will be rescued, if necessary, by the Grigory Arloshkin, that is moving on a parallel course.” Norwegian Coast Guards detained the Elektron on Saturday off the Spitsbergen archipelago for allegedly… >>>>

  25. Are we sure this is a Chinese space programme and not an Indian one?
    That looks suspiciously like an oven for cooking Tandoori chicken to me…

  26. Hey, I really like “subwoover”. Sounds to me like a word whose time has come. I think I’ll go over to Mr. Submarine and order one woovered.
    And frankly, that ostensible spacecraft looks like it would do the woovering nicely. Do you suppose it’s a woovercraft?

  27. The producers of the old Buck Rogers tv series should sue- all the Chinese have done, is blanked out the wire that it hangs from, and the sparklers at the other end.

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