Huge out-of-control Chinese space station is crashing to Earth and could hit Europe

Posted by $ nickursis 6 years, 2 months ago to Science
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Hmmm... does this mean they are liable for damages? There are a lot of people in Europe....
SOURCE URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-control-chinese-space-station-crashing-earth-hit-europe-172633830.html


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  • Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 2 months ago
    Me dino hopes that tribute to Chinese technology fails to hurt anyone but my dangerous dino mind has just contemplated the irony of a Chinese restaurant being flattened in, say, Copenhagen.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 6 years, 2 months ago
    And people want to claim that the Chinese are engineers. No. They are intellectual property thieves. If it does hit anywhere populated, it's going to give the entire world the excuse to take a hard stance against them.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years, 2 months ago
      They are indeed, although once they steal a technology, they generally can duplicate it. However, their rise has been based solely on intellectual theft, many, many of their weapons are direct knockoffs from spying.
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      • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 2 months ago
        Am I a dreamer or paranoid to think (hope) that there are “fail safes” and other Trojan horses hidden in software and hardware that can be activated when necessary to destroy the technology when in the wrong hands; or just use the tech to monitor us all.
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        • Posted by $ 6 years, 2 months ago
          I think there may be some in some things, it is the fact the activation is the issue without trashing everyone. I saw a program where they were talking about a dutch company that sold wind generator controllers, very high tech and efficient, and within 1 year, there was a Chinese knock off on the world market. Despite their complaints, 3 years later, they had not gotten one country to either certify they were knockoffs and illegal, or force a licensing fee from the Chinese company.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 6 years, 2 months ago
    Where is SuperMan when you need him?!

    Might be a job for Space X...snare that bugger in a net and hurl it at North Korea.

    So much for Chinese technological prowess.

    I actually think that this kind of event will happen more and more. Our weakened shields will lay bare any protection from CME's and Cosmic radiation on our satellites.
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    • Posted by $ 6 years, 2 months ago
      Seems like it, there was also an article about China wanting to use a large laser to scour out space junk, but I am pretty sure this would defeat whatever they had in mind....
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