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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the greetings-from-the-stars dept.

BBC News reports that the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft with two taikonauts has successfully docked with China's second space station (their first station, Tiangong-1, was also recently in the news, because it is dropping from orbit).

The Shenzhou-11 spacecraft blasted off from northern China on Monday, and docked with Tiangong 2 at 03:24 Beijing time (19:24 GMT Tuesday).

Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong will be spending the next 30 days in space conducting experiments.

It marks the longest space mission by Chinese astronauts.

The docking took place 393km (244 miles) above Earth and the remotely controlled procedure lasted about two hours, according to state media.

The docking took place in the early hours of Wednesday morning Beijing time.

State television on Wednesday morning carried live video of the docking and arrival of the astronauts, or "taikonauts", which saw them floating through a narrow 1m-long, 80cm-wide passageway into the lab.

The pair "extended greetings to all the people of the nation," while onboard the laboratory, according to the Xinhua news agency.

More links:
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/10-19/230722.shtml

I'm curious why they have only 2 crew this time instead of 3. Maybe they needed the extra space for the food experiments?


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:05PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:05PM (#416213)

    You surely also have an explanation of the things that one can sometimes see as clearly visible bright moving spot on the sky which are commonly claimed to be satellites? And can explain why they move exactly as they should move if there was indeed a space where satellites orbit?

    And you probably can also tell us where the TV signals those satellite dishes receive come from when up there nothing could survive the solar radiation, right?

    And about the curvature of earth, what is your explanation that you can see farther is you are higher? And that for approaching ships on the sea, you see the upper parts before you see the lower parts? And why ships (including private ships that cannot be part of some global conspiracy) which use that "wrong" spherical geometry of earth for navigation quite reliably get to where they want to get?

    What is your explanation that the apparent height of the polar star over the horizon changes if you go north or south, and it gets invisible when you cross the equator southwards?

    I think if you want to convince us that the earth is not (approximately) spherical and surrounded by space, you'll have to do a lot of explanations.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @05:46PM (#416244)

    He'll have answers for all that and more. Numbnuts is completely hopeless. Just mod him to -1, and don't reply to him.

    Well… unless numbnuts is trying to do something about the low comment counts on space stories. I'm just not sure that's a healthy solution.

    • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:39PM

      by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:39PM (#416277)

      Meta: I don't have to browse at -1 to know what you two are talking about. But i'm curious when that copypasta can be marked as -1 spam? At what point does it go from bad trolling to spam?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @06:54PM (#416285)

        The admins review every spam mod. Why waste their time? And AFAICT it isn't a copypasta.

        • (Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday October 19 2016, @08:08PM

          by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday October 19 2016, @08:08PM (#416316)

          Because at some point wasting X user mod points is more than wasting an admin's time. That was my question, what is the value of X? When does it go from wasting a bunch of people's time to actual spam.

          Just like this comment has probably pushed too far into the OT and risking a negative mod there : P

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @03:19AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @03:19AM (#416460)

            I had thought that saying it isn't a copypasta was enough of an answer. If it were, I would have used the spam mod.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @09:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @09:34PM (#416354)

    Love the irony of Science Deniers using the products of science to post their opinions.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @09:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @09:43PM (#416359)

    Robert Anton Wilson was only joking!