Amateurs don't work as engineers at JPL.
What kind of engineer is he? How is he qualified to judge the authenticity of the Chinese space program?
There is no independent film of a Chinese man walking in space. It was all released by China. So if they launched an unmanned Shenzhou, who would know?
There was no independent film of the first US or Russian spacewalks either. This leads me to wonder why you accept the word of NASA and the Russians, but not the Chinese.
If they don't understand spaceflight, (Like many countries don't), then they will have to fake it in order to establish their position in the world of space.
Why is fakery the only option? Isn't it more likely that they would simply learn how to do it for real? If they don't understand space flight they could study it. It's been 50 years since the first manned space flights by Russia and the US... do you think maybe the Chinese have had time to read a book or two about space flight since then? Or maybe enroll some of their children in American universities? I really don't understand why you believe the Chinese are incapable of doing this.
But I'm pretty sure the Chinese have had some understanding of rocketry for quite some time. They did invent the darn things, after all.
It has nothing to do with specifically hating Chinese. It has to do with hypothesizing a mission was faked. That mission just happens to have been a Chinese one.
You don't doubt the Russians. You don't doubt the US. You doubt the Chinese. Why? Explain it to me. Why do you believe the Chinese are incapable of doing something that the Russians and Americans did 50 years ago?
How do you think the first people learned it may be possible to orbit something? They had no textbooks to read. They did the research on their own.
Why are the Chinese incapable of doing this?
Are you saying Kepler was an uneducated amateur just because his research was independent?
You're not Kepler. You're just a kid with delusions of grandeur.
It has nothing to do with wanting to be special. I post under my real name so I can be identified easily across forums.
It's incredibly dangerous to post using your real name. And it could also make it difficult for you to get a job if potential employers Google your name and discover you're a looney conspiracy theorist. You're free to do as you wish, of course, I'm just giving you some friendly advice.
Absolutely ridiculous. China has not had space-age technology for almost 60 years like the US and Russia has. Someone who is new to something might "suck" at it.
Huh? The US and Russia did not have "space-age technology for almost 60 years" when they made their first space flights either. So what are you saying? That no one can do something that hasn't been done before? How does anything new ever get accomplished then?
China has the advantage of being able to study how the US and Russia accomplished their first space flights. They aren't completely in the dark.
If China can't do something yet, but they want to be apart of the game, they can just as easily fake it.
Why do conspiracy theorists always assume that faking something is easier than actually doing it for real?
I believe Shenzhou 5 was likely real. I have seen video of the inside of the cabin in zero g for a few minutes at a time. But sitting in a pressurized cabin and then actually evacuating all the air and relying on nothing but a pressure suit and then getting out to walk around near a bunch of sharp metal is a totally different story. Who knows? Maybe they have faulty pressure suits, don't want to risk man or have simply not mastered the technology yet.
Ridiculous. If having "faulty suits" was the only issue they could very easily just wait until they sort out the problem. And since the suits are pretty much just off the shelf Russian space suits I don't see why they would be faulty to begin with.
And if the suits were faulty... would they be safe in that swimming pool where you think they filmed the spacewalk?
Were you alive in the 60's? If you were, you remember space missions (advanced ones, too!) going up every few months. Apollo missions going up just three months apart or whatever. From testing the LM in LEO in March to landing it on the moon in July. China has so far (apparently) achieved three manned space missions over the last almost ten years.... If they were moving at the rate we were in the 60's, they'd already have landed a man on the moon. But they're not.
I don't see how that proves they are faking it. They're being cautious and/or thrifty. They aren't rushing anything because they aren't in a race to beat anyone.
