Shenzhou 16 launch was a complete success! "Ordinary people" can also go to space! Foreign netizens frying the pan?

Hello everyone, I am the president of the Electric Vehicle Commune.

I usually talk about running on the ground, but today I will talk to you about flying.

First of all, a warm celebration! On May 30, the launch of the mainland Shenzhou 16 manned spacecraft was a complete success!

Shenzhou 16, which carried three astronauts, has successfully docked with the Chinese space station Tiangong after a 6.5-hour flight, and successfully met with the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 15 flight crew.

Inside the Chinese space station, the famous scene of six astronauts gathering in space is reproduced!

In addition, China announced the day before the launch of Shenzhou 16 that it planned to achieve the first Chinese landing on the moon by 2030.

Of course, this kind of exciting moment, in addition to our family's proud rush to tell each other, is also indispensable for the attention of foreigners.

The news of the launch of Shenzhou 16 appeared on the homepage of many foreign portals on the same day, such as CNN:

Musk, who has been surfing the Internet with high intensity for many years, also left his own comment under a Canadian astronaut's Twitter:

"China's space achievements are far more advanced than most people realize."

There is a saying, Musk's mouth although it is quite a lot

It's as damaging as turning on the light, but occasionally it's very pertinent, like this time.

Not to mention that SpaceX itself is the top enterprise in the global aviation field, as the CEO of SpaceX, Musk's evaluation of China's aerospace is also higher than when he is usually unobtrusive.

However, Musk's likes suddenly blew up on Twitter.

Under the Canadian astronaut's tweet and Musk's reply, it was packed with netizens who came to express their opinions.

Some expressed shock:

(The text in the picture is a machine translation, and the text in the following Twitter screenshot is the same)

The implication: China can actually land on the moon before 2030, everyone still believes this?!

In response to this netizen who does not know about China's aerospace, someone is enthusiastic about popular science under his reply (although he obviously carried a lot of private goods in the comments):

This kind of 2G speech similar to the "village network" is relatively friendly, and many netizens directly attribute China's aerospace achievements to "American help".

For example, the technology is "freely provided by the United States" and "stolen by China":

It is also said that because the Americans bought Chinese goods, it was "the United States that funded Chinese aviation technology":

Although very absurd, similar statements are indeed common on the overseas Internet.

Fortunately, there are also some sane people:

Of course, Twitter is not all about this purely disparaging and cathartic statement about China.

Just as Chinese surf the Internet, Americans like to compare the achievements of other countries with those of their own countries.

In response to Musk's positive evaluation of China's aerospace achievements, some American netizens turned to think that someone landed on the moon in the United States in 1969, thinking that the United States is more technologically advanced!

Then immediately a more "understanding" brother came out to remind, "Don't dream buddy, the technology is lost!" ”

Then, unsurprisingly, it triggered a wave of nostalgia for the "golden age" and dissatisfaction with the current state of American society.

As he spoke, some people began to wonder whether their country really landed on the moon, and whether politicians specially made it up to deceive the people?

After all, Americans born after the US-Soviet space race in the 60s and 70s are relatively unfamiliar with the memory of the US government's "doing practical things", and they are very impressed by politicians' votes full of trains.

Therefore, it seems reasonable to question whether the glorious achievements propagated by politicians are true.

What's more, the Americans themselves are well aware of their own ability to create public opinion, washing powder can be said to be a biological weapon, and fake nature can also be said to be "undoubted" under the sneaky work of the media.

As a result, there are now people who blindly listen to government propaganda, and in turn have to accept the ridicule of some "independent thinking" young people:

When the discussion returns to China's space achievements themselves, it is natural that there are voices of praise, which then trigger a wave of Chinese familiar reflections on the state system:

Good fellow, the myth of "Western democracy" blindly touted by an entire generation in China was stunned by the locals themselves where the myth is located.

When the president went to school, he never thought that the "one-party dictatorship" that the Western world has always been unable to see, and today there will be Americans who sincerely say yes.

It seems that some Americans have indeed "struggled between the two parties for a long time", and the radical ones have already shouted that they want to find someone to replace politicians:

Since they have all risen to the level of institutional issues, conspiracy theories are certainly indispensable, and it is not surprising that there are statements against Chinese stereotypes:

As if anything China does will harm the whole world, it is necessary to use the evil dragon in Western culture to refer to the "descendants of the dragon" in Eastern culture.

But the most interesting thing is that Middle Eastern netizens are completely different from other people:

They are also thinking that "after China is strong, it will definitely do something", but the feelings of Middle Eastern netizens are completely different from those of American netizens.

It is probably the difference between a country that feels that its country is threatened and a country that feels that it is "bullying" its own country is threatened.

In short, no matter what people in other countries say, China's space science and technology will advance step by step according to its own plan.

It is no wonder that many foreigners are so defensive, in recent years, there are not many countries that can steadily achieve each stage goal without a moth.

The United States itself released the "Artemis" lunar landing plan, preparing to return to the moon, and the lunar landing schedule has been postponed from 2024 to 2025, but experts say that 2026 is enough to choke, and it is not possible to continue to postpone it later.

Russia, which inherited most of the Soviet "legacy", also said that it would resume the lunar landing plan and launch the "Luna 25", "Luna 26" and "Luna 27" probes by 2025, and as a result, the launch time of the "Luna 25" probe, which was supposed to be launched in October 2021, has been postponed again and again, and the latest news is that the launch has been postponed from June this year to August.

(Russian "Luna 25")

The European Space Agency plans to land on the moon and establish a base in 2025, but the plan includes cooperation with the American "Artemis" program, and since "Artemis" is delayed, Europe will naturally have to postpone.

In addition, India, Japan and other countries have proposed their own lunar landing plans.

However, everyone's lunar landing plan has its own ups and downs, and the progress is not smooth, and they have been postponed.

So don't look at the lunar landing schedules of the United States and Europe earlier than China, but the delay is postponed, maybe China's 2030 moon landing plan will be the first to be realized.

SpaceX, which undertook NASA's launch project, is well aware of NASA's budget cuts and limited internal project funds, so Musk will give a high evaluation of China's aerospace in a step-by-step manner.

What is called "everyone is doing PPT, only China takes it seriously" ah!

On the other hand, unlike the European Space Agency, India, Japan and other countries that can cooperate in the "circle of friends", the development of China's space science and technology has almost grown up alone.

China has always been open, but the third world countries that cooperate with China frequently provide markets rather than technology, and a group of developed countries that can provide technical cooperation have long blocked China.

(The cooperation between China and Brazil to jointly develop satellites is now an international story)

NASA, which has the largest blockade of Chinese science and technology, should understand this best, but in order to "ask for money" and get the US Congress to approve a huge research and development budget, NASA director not only played up the threat of Chinese space technology to the United States, but also claimed that China's space technology "is all plagiarizing the United States".

In fact, slandering China for stealing U.S. space technology is a cliché that the United States has often used since the last century, even though the United States itself has banned technology leakage to China.

The only period of cooperation between China and the United States in the field of space science and technology was when China's commercial launch projects for rockets began in the 80s and 90s.

(The first cooperation between China and the United States in the field of commercial launches: "Long Two Bundle" launches O-Star)

The United States places orders for China, and Chinese rockets launch American satellites.

It was originally a win-win situation for the United States to save costs and China to open the international market and earn funds.

However, the cooperation conditions offered by the United States are extremely harsh, not only the satellites arriving in China must be monitored by US security personnel 24 hours a day (to avoid any technical details leaking), but also do not pay any fees in advance, but also pay the United States $1 million for launch failure.

It is conceivable that this kind of cooperation, which was unequal in the beginning, cannot be sustained for long.

In 1999, the U.S. Congress issued the Cox Report, openly accusing China of "endangering U.S. national security by stealing U.S. satellite, missile, and rocket technology by taking advantage of commercial satellite launches, especially malfunction investigations." ”

Subsequently, in the Commercial Authorization Act, the United States legally prohibited the launch of American satellites in China and comprehensively blocked relevant technologies.

The Wolf Clause of 2011 extended its hand from commercial launch cooperation to scientific research cooperation and academic exchanges.

Because of this provision, some Chinese scientists have been arrested for slandering and stealing technology, and some Chinese scholars have been banned from participating in academic conferences.

(NASA is blocking while complaining that China does not disclose information data)

With such an arrogant and impudent encirclement and interception, how can we talk about China plagiarizing American space technology?

Many Americans have not paid attention to the development process of other countries, casually "spraying" a few words, but actually thinking about their own technology is the best.

Although this practice is inappropriate, the idea is not incomprehensible.

But if Chinese also follow the trend and ridicule the space achievements of their country from poverty to the forefront of the world, it is unconscionable.

You know, South Korea, which has just successfully launched its self-developed launch vehicle for the third time, the president has declared that "South Korea is already a space power", why should we be too critical of our own big rockets?

Write at the end

In fact, no matter from which point of view, the development of China's space technology is inseparable from the influence of changes in the international situation.

During the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States chose to cooperate with China in order to contain the Soviet Union;

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, China's space technology developed steadily, and the United States regarded China as a threat and repeatedly obstructed it;

China's scientific and technological strength has gradually become stronger and its international status has been continuously improved, and the United States has resumed cooperation with China as appropriate based on specific fields and projects.

Today, China is facing a trade war started by the United States, but unlike in the past, the United States also faces a fierce clash of ideas, as in the series of tweets shown at the beginning of this article.

For us, this is a good thing.

As long as someone is open-minded, we are willing to show more possibilities of cooperation with an honest attitude.

As mainland Foreign Ministry spokesman Mao Ning said about Musk's visit to China, "China has always welcomed people from business circles from all over the world, including Mr. Musk, to visit China to better understand China and promote mutually beneficial cooperation." ”

Space is not the airspace of a single country, but a new world that requires the cooperation of all mankind to explore.

Our goal is the sea of stars!