China’s first “post-90s” astronauts to fulfill their space dreams #SpaceChina https://t.co/n2f3B94FGI pic.twitter.com/fmaIcB4eqR

— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) October 29, 2024

Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze will carry out the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceflight mission, and Cai will be the commander, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced at a press conference on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/ardsKLqZVz

— China Perspective (@China_Fact) October 29, 2024

China launched the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship on Wednesday, sending three astronauts — including the country’s first female space engineer — to its orbiting space station for a six-month mission. #GLOBALink pic.twitter.com/zpKnGVTKij

— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) October 29, 2024

China will have a city on the Moon while you’re stuck paying to feed infinity niggers.

This is the reality that has been created.

Reuters:

China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats.

The spacecraft Shenzhou-19 and its three crew lifted off atop a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 4:27 a.m. (2027 GMT), according to state media.

“During the Shenzhou-19 flight … 86 space sci-tech experiments will be carried out in the fields of space life sciences, microgravity physics, materials, medicine, new technologies,” Lin Xiqiang, deputy director of the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), said in a press conference on Tuesday.

Astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze.

One of these experiments is expected to involve exposing bricks made from simulated lunar soil to conditions in space.

Should the tests prove successful, the bricks could be a key material used in the construction of a permanent lunar research station, which China hopes to complete by 2035, as it would in theory be more convenient than transporting building materials from Earth.

The bricks will be sent in a separate uncrewed cargo spaceflight to the Shenzhou-19 crew next month.

The Shenzhou crewed spaceflights have been a regular fixture of China’s space program for the past two decades and have increased in frequency in recent years as China built and began operating its “Tiangong” space station, officially completed in November 2022.

The fast development of China’s manned and unmanned space program has alarmed the United States, which has encountered issues with its own crewed spaceflights.

Two NASA astronauts brought to the International Space Station by Boeing’s Starliner capsule in June have been stranded there since due to unforeseen issues with the spacecraft’s propulsion system. They are expected to return in February 2025 on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.

This is the story of the world.

China is dominating in all areas while the US fades away.

Chinese researchers develop lunar-soil bricks for future lunar base construction. pic.twitter.com/oJOAZGlIp0

— Consulat général de Chine à Montréal (@ChinaCGMTL) October 29, 2024

The only thing the US has left is its military which has not really been tested in any meaningful way in a long time.

This is the stupidest thing.

Why did the UN not order China to blow this up? They should have forced them to hit it with a space rocket.

Sure, the chances of it actually killing someone might be low – but the fact remains, the entire world is now forced to sit here wondering if they’re going to get hit with this damn thing.

Space:

The crash is imminent: The Chinese experimental space station Tiangong-1 will fall uncontrolled to Earth on Sunday (April 1), give or take a day and a half.

With a weight of 9.4 tons (8.5 metric tons) at launch, which occurred in September 2011, the craft will be one of the heftiest chunks of space debris to re-enter our planet’s atmosphere, according to the European Space Agency(ESA). Does that mean you’re in danger of being struck?

In two words? Not really.

“The odds of being hit are very small,” Marco Langbroek, a consultant with the Space Security Center of the Royal Dutch Air Force and Leiden Observatory, told Space.com. [China’s Tiangong-1 Space Lab in Pictures]

Langbroek, who tracks spy satellites and writes the blog SatTrackCam, has been posting re-entry predictions for Tiangong-1 since March 13, 2017. “We should not overdramatize the dangers,” he said.

No one is “overdramatizing” anything.

We have a situation where we know for a fact this is going to hit somewhere on earth and cause a gigantic fiery/explody mess. And we all live on earth.

I’m not sitting around worrying about it, but I assume everyone who is literate and knows this is coming down has at least paused for a moment and pictured what it would be like to be hit by it.

Why are they allowed to do this?

Are they going to be sanctioned for it?

I hate the United Nations and think it is a completely pointless, useless group – but this is like one situation where it’s like “okay, I guess this is what the UN exists to deal with” and they do absolutely nothing about it?

But I guess this could do something good.

It could kill Jews.

And like, if it hit the black rock in Mecca, wouldn’t that mean that their religion no longer is valid?

I’m pretty sure that if that rock is destroyed, it means Allah is fake.

So maybe that will happen.

I just hope I don’t get hit, and also not my friends and family.