Thursday, September 25, 2008

CJ7

I'm going to talk about CJ7. Wait, it's actually Shen Zhou7, I screwed up.

So ShenZhou 7 is launching in a bit. My parents are now watching TV, switching among chanels as waiting to see the launching.

I recieved a funny spam SMS from a ringtone platform. The platform is quite clear, it's not a cheat. Anyway. It is basically asking me to log onto the page and register for that service which they will later send me the sound sent to the ground from ShenZhou 7 after it landed. I am wondering how many Chinese will be this passionate about this. Well, we have 1.3 billion people, a small proportion is a large number.

As the first two spacefight made LiWei YANG and the crew national heroes, the crew is always the media focus. One of the Chinese newpaper wrote an article for the crew of 3 people, Zhai Zhigang, Liu Boming and Jing Haipeng, with the title reading "all from the peasant family, all are honest and frank people". This title makes me laugh. It makes me somehow feel that we are back in the Mao's time when workers, peasants and soldiers the proletariat go hand in hand to build a new China.

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