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

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

A long-period comet [...] it's fantastically improbable compared to NEO impact.

Really? I would have thought "one or two orders of magnitude less probable than NEO impact." Maybe I need to do more homework.

Re: Groan

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Well, a near-Earth object will often have hundreds of close encounters with Earth, and fresh long-period comets are much less numerous to begin with.

On the other hand, the hits could be more devastating because of the much larger relative velocity.