Associate
Repeat a landing or repeat faking it ??
Chinas space walks faked
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Soldato
Cost.
Man of Honour
You'd never see "wobble". That at the very least requires friction, which there isn't much of in near vacuum. Most craft 'steer' using jets of gas. These don't impart much force because the last thing you want is a craft spinning off uncontrollably (it's much easier to start moving than it is to stop).
In fact, it's possible to propel spacecraft using very little force. Consider supporting a single sheet of A4 on your hand - that's the same force some spacecraft use.
Which China couldn't give a damn about. Look how much they spent on the Olympics. Their goal is simply to do whatever it takes to become a space-faring nation. The same was true of the US in the 60s, for much the same reason - politics.
huh? there have been loads of televised/filmed space walks from America/Russia in the last few years.
If you're saying thier faked you're going to have to explain how they fix/upgrade Hubble.
Man of Honour
Or convince us all that Hubble itself is a fake. 
Man of Honour
It's a good job that satellites go at exactly the same speed as the Earth or else I wouldn't be able to pick up SKY, Astra, Hotbird or Thor.
It's called a geostationary orbit.
Anyway, 1000s upon 1000s of NASA professionals must have followed, tracked, watched and analysed this walk but some 15 year old cries FAKE.
Man of Honour
That's Geostationary satellites. They operate at a far higher altitude than any current manned spacecraft (which orbit the earth approximately once every 90 minutes).
Man of Honour
So there's no chance that the craft was in a geostationary orbit?
If so that's buggered that explanation then.
Associate
It’s quite obvious to me that the Americans faked it. If they really went to the moon wouldn’t they have opened a McDonalds, Kentucky Fried Chicken or a Wall Mart by now? It was forty years ago and they haven't been back lately? I doubt if they have the technology to do it now. After all, even with all their technology they still can't get their hands on one infamous earthling. On my travel to Africa some people even suggested that the Americans had invented Osama Bin Laden too. (I don't hold with their views on that one).
If they had been there wouldn’t their film industry be there today making "Movies" (films to the rest of us) with Good Guys on moon buggies being chased by Bad Guys etc.
They didn’t go there because there is no one there they could subjugate, no one to hate or alienate.
They faked it!
If they had been there wouldn’t their film industry be there today making "Movies" (films to the rest of us) with Good Guys on moon buggies being chased by Bad Guys etc.
They didn’t go there because there is no one there they could subjugate, no one to hate or alienate.
They faked it!
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary
"The satellite orbits in the direction of the Earth's rotation, at an altitude of 35,786 km (22,236 mi) above ground"
from http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971115b.html
"The altitude at which the shuttle orbits depends on its mission. When the Shuttle docks with Mir, it goes up to 390 km (242 statute miles). Columbia, the oldest and heaviest shuttle in the fleet, can't reach that orbit. "
Yea, so there is no chance it was geostaionary
Although I have quoted you this is more aimed at others...
Since when did bubbles not go straight up? This is the most compelling evidence I have seen for them not being bubbles in water, and although I don't know the person who did the article it appears to be pretty objective and easy to copy. Bubbles in water go straight up, due to gravity, these on the other hand float from different locations at different angles, nothing like bubbles in water. Unless of course they were rotating the entire water tank during the filming...
I read it as him taking the pee out of the amount of times NASA have grounded and delayed the shuttle in the last few years, not that anything was faked?
Because of course if China, the most populous and one of the most powerful countries in the world, were looking to fake it, they would definitely forget that there are stars in space.
I think you've got them there.
Soldato
Thats a satellite that needs to be geostationary though. AFAIK, this mission didn't need to be, so to get it exactly geostationary would be a hell of a coincidence..
Soldato
It was made in china, it is to be expected
just about everything electrical you buy today is made there
so that remark is a fail
Spacecraft are usually stabilised by gas jets or gyroscopes, satellites would be next to useless if they couldn't maintain a stable orbit! The nature of an orbit means it travels in either a circular or elliptical path (ignoring the pull of the sun and moon which are relatively minor), if it's a circular orbit and they're using gyros the relative position of earth wouldn't change.
I'm suprised how many people think it's fake, probably 50%+ of replies! Hell it got me for a couple of mins, if you look at the evidence critically though there's nothing to say this is a fake.
Man of Honour
Rather old source there - given that Mir and Columbia both no longer exist. I think the ISS, and probably the Chinese, operate at a lower altitude, but you're absolutely right - nothing like Geostationary.