China in Space: Threat or Menace?

[james_davis_nicoll]

The answer is "which can we use to scare the USG into funding more space stuff?"

As touted here: Leonard David's "Is China's Space Program Shaping a Celestial Empire?"

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

SF: the genre whose authors, given the choice between a successful democracy and a doctrinaire, brain-sporking autocracy, will go for brain-sporking autocracy...

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Isn't the real menace of Chinese space programs the threat that Stephen Baxter will write another Titan?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

1 Corinthians 15:55

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

A foul concept,indeed. Speaking of the Baxteroid, have you read his recent collaboration with Terry Pratchett?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Tried, failed.

[bruce munro (from livejournal.com)]

My impression was that it was rather more Baxter than Pratchett. But then Pratchett is in increasingly poor shape, and may be willing under the circumstances to lend his name to a project he is only slightly involved in.