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

Re: Groan

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I think just after the attacks there was a very high degree of uncertainty about just what size of operation we were dealing with. Maybe al Qaeda had a sleeper cell preparing to strike in every city!

(At one point on the day itself I counted up the total number of hijacked planes that I'd heard of from various news stories, and came up with 8, plus a (nonexistent) car bombing at the State Department in DC. It's actually kind of remarkable that the amplification over reality was only a factor of 2 and change.)