its straight up xenophobia at this point, it has been for a while, but this is the most blatant it's gotten.
Remember when they were salivating at the thought of covid killing everyone in China?
Ah. Back in 2019, a substation in Bolivar had a transformer explode, causing rolling blackouts for the region.
Marco Rubio famously retweeted it was a "German Dam" but that turned out to be the name of the reporter writing about it.
I hadn't even heard about the Three Gorges Dam stuff. Thanks for the info.
it landed in the indian ocean and hit no one - as anyone literally could've guessed given the size of the oceans lmao
I wonder if there's betting markets on shit like this, could be an easy way to make money off of indoctrinated Americans
Well it wasn't that unlikely it would hit land, however even if it hit land, humans only make up a tiny percentage of the surface and many don't realize this.
There's this article from a month ago where the exact same thing happened to SpaceX and people barely noticed. Skimming through it I found that the article actually lies about the possibility of debris from a Falcon 9 making it to the surface - the pressure vessels in those things are more than capable of surviving reentry, and in one case a fully intact one landed in Washington state.
Most rocket launches try to plan it out so that reentry is controlled, and I have no doubt that China tries to do that too, but a million things can and do go wrong even during successful launches and every time the Chinese space org fucks that particular thing up the western news descends on the story like a school of piranha. Add to that the fact that they have to launch from inland due to political concerns and the risk goes way up.
Sir, you are doing a
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What do you mean launch from inland due to political concerns? I believe they launch from Hainan island.
There are some inland launch sites that cause problems
(Ignore the scare monger narration, that's just the first one I could find)
The US blew up a teacher in front of her parents and class room lol.
But yeah the Chinese are obviously reckless with their rockets or whatever the fuck this is
love hearing my family talk about how the chinese have no respect for human life and would kill all their orphans if they couldnt sell them to the west for a profit
yeah but millions of people died from covid in china and theyre covering it up!!!! CCP propaganda!!! :wojak-nooo:
Literally everyone in China is dead and everyone you see is a hologram, except for evil Xinnie the Pooh see see peah authoritarian 1984 animal farm, of course
Yeah, this shit is kinda weird honestly. But I guess not a lot of people think about how like, the vast majority of rocket launches have just kinda dropped their shit with a reasonable assumption it won't hit land.
CHINA LAUNCHES ROCKET ATTACK ON INDIA. HINDU NATIONALISTS DEMAND WAR, INDIAN ARMED FORCES PUT IN ORDER FOR BODY BAGS.
I was hoping some would crash near me. Metal is expensive and I would enjoy the souvenirs
i hope a bit thats colored like the flag :china-stars: lands by me that would be lit af lol
Hope you like metal with a side of radiation because... yeah. Space shit.
We all know the asiatic skull shape isn’t capable of designing beautiful successful spacecraft. Leave the space exploration to the superior Anglo race
Had the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere about 15 to 20 minutes earlier on Monday
almost as if... they calculated to make sure that wouldn't happen:thonk: :thonk: :thonk: :thonk:
Have you ever seen Elon Musk and Xi in the same room?
Think about it.
Yeah I'm not really seeing any xenophobia at least in I guess the social and media bubbles I'm in. It's just a fun water cooler ghost story like y2k or 2012.
Check out the reddit thread on it if you'd like to see the xenophobia.
In fairness, that could be said of just about any reddit thread on any topic.
It is very funny how everyone in that thread is suddenly an expert on deorbiting rocket stages and shit because it makes China look worse apparently.
Reddit is already the epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect. It only gets worse once you sprinkle in some racism.
Perhaps the most perfectly succinct description of reddit I've heard.
