Tiangong (Chinese: 天宮; pinyin: Tiāngōng; lit. 'Palace in the Sky'),[5][6] officially the Tiangong space station (Chinese: 天宫空间站), is a space station being constructed by China in low Earth orbit between 340 and 450 km (210 and 280 mi) above the surface. Being China's first long-term space station, it is the goal of the "Third Step" of the China Manned Space Program. Once completed, Tiangong will have a mass between 80 and 100 t (180,000 and 220,000 lb), roughly one-fifth the mass of the International Space Station and about the size of the decommissioned Russian Mir space station.
The construction of the station is based on the experience gained from its precursors, Tiangong-1 and Tiangong-2.[7][8][9] The first module, the Tianhe ("Harmony of the Heavens") core module, was launched on 29 April 2021,[5][6] followed by multiple crewed and uncrewed missions and two more modules to be launched in 2022.[7] Chinese leaders have expressed the hope that the research conducted on the station will improve researchers' ability to conduct science experiments in space, beyond the duration and capacity offered by China's existing space laboratories.[10]
China's incentive to build its own space station was amplified after NASA refused Chinese participation in the International Space Station in 2011,[63] although China, Russia and Europe mutually vowed intentions to maintain a cooperative and multilateral approach in space.[64] Cooperation in the field of crewed space flight between the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) was examined in 2011 and participation in the development of China crewed space stations and cooperation with China in the fields such as visiting astronauts, and scientific research was discussed.[65]
An initial cooperative agreement with China National Space Administration and Italian Space Agency was subsequently signed in November 2011, covering areas of collaboration within space transportation, telecommunications, Earth observation, etc.[66] In 2019, an Italian experiment High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) was scheduled on board the Chinese station.[67] Tiangong also involved cooperation from France, Sweden, and Russia.[68]
On 22 February 2017, the CMSA and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) signed an agreement to cooperate on long-term human spaceflight activities.[69] The agreement holds importance due to Italy's leading position in the field of human spaceflight with regards to the creation and exploitation of the International Space Station (Node 2, Node 3, Columbus, Cupola, Leonardo, Raffaello, Donatello, PMM, etc.) and it signified Italy's increased anticipation in China's developing space station programme.[70] The European Space Agency (ESA) started human spaceflight training with CMSEO in 2017, with the ultimate goal of sending ESA astronauts to Tiangong.[71]
International experiments were selected by the CMSA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in a UN session in 2019. 42 applications were submitted and nine experiments were accepted.[72] Some of the experiments are a continuation to the ones on Tiangong-2 such as POLAR-2, an experiment of researching Gamma-ray burst polarimetry, proposed by Switzerland, Poland, Germany and China.[73] Tricia Larose from the University of Oslo of Norway develops a cancer research experiment for the station. The 31-days experiment will test to see if weightlessness has a positive effect in stopping cancer growth.[74] Tiangong is also expected to host experiments from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Netherlands, Peru, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.[73]
Regarding the participation of foreign astronauts, CMSA has repeatedly communicated their support for such proposals. During the press conference of the Shenzhou 12 mission, Zhou Jianping, the chief designer of China Manned Space Program explained that multiple countries had expressed their wish to participate. He told journalists that the future participation of foreign astronauts "will be guaranteed".[75] Ji Qiming, an assistant director at CMSEO told reporters that he believes "in the near future, after the completion of the Chinese space station, we will see Chinese and foreign astronauts fly and work together."[76]
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Which one’s the neurotransmitter that makes you want to accomplish something? Not dopamine, the other one. Cause I need that one
Man one of the best parts about this site is so many different people knowing so many cool and interesting things and sharing their knowledge, like I learn so much I wouldn't otherwise.
This is a long way of saying I had no idea China has a space station. :sankara-salute: OP
I have completed my magnum opus: went to a wedding yesterday and drank continuously for 9 hours straight but thanks to expert pacing and crucial water breaks I did not have a hangover when I woke up
Got to see my bf for the first time in 6 months AND my tea came today and we tried 2 of the flavors together :meow-melt:
Me when I find out a hexbear user is following the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard trial :snipes-hesitation:
The site may evolve
the users may change
but the Amber Bot remains
it remains
I don't know who Amber Heard even is, and I'm disappointed to know that Edward Scissorhands aka Gilbert Grape is probably a douche. (Is he really? Damn :sadness: )
I might be behind the times though.
The whole deal is that Amber Heard accused Johnny Depp of abuse, but then it supposedly turned out that Heard herself is actually the abuser and the allegations might have actually been fake
The case is gaining so much traction because the gamers have finally found a woman who lied about abuse and in their minds, this proves that all women are liars and all their favorite sexual predator gamers were actually innocent all along
This is my understanding of it, I don't know who was actually right and I refuse to consume any content related to it
Ugh, Ok, thanks for the update. What a shitshow, damn. I only hope whoever the real abuser is (are?) faces appropriate justice. But who the fuck knows beyond all the celebrity spectacle.
Edit: I don't know, is that a shitty take? I really know nothing of the situation, I just remember liking Johnny Depp like 2 decades ago. Basically fuck celebrity worship culture. Culture matters, but celebrity shit ime is just distraction. Movements for recognition of suppressed or abused people (example: MeToo) is one thing - good and necessary, but celebrity gossip and trials of the rich and famous? I don't know. Feels like deliberate, even manufactured spectacle to me, but feel free to school me if I'm wrong, I often am.
just went to r/all because im that bored and holy shit, absolutely unusable. it's actually hilarious how bad a website reddit is
Huge whiplash seeing someone tweet about how "Trans ideology denies the material basis of patriarchy and is liberal obfuscation" then clicking on their bio and seeing they sell tarot readings and astrology analysis to people for money.
I stopped taking my post-surgery pain meds after I got back from hospital and just saved them for when I got a headache lol
Post-surgery aches and pains I can handle, migraines are shitty garbage I can't push through.
It all depends on the kind of pain. I've usually had aching pains from surgery, but the worst pain I ever had was a sharp pain in my stomach.
That one physically incapacitated me.
wE CAn’T sTOp LiViNG oUr lIVes bECAusE of CoViD
Yeah, my idea of living isn’t making multiple trips to the supermarket because you don’t know what a roma tomato is
Fucking
No one’s wearing masks anywhere :agony-shivering:
NASA refused Chinese participation in the International Space Station in 2011
:amerikkka:
Makes the anti-china jokes in the Space Force tv show even more infuriating. The US coasted on 80s tech for years but being racist jumpstarted a new space race.
Getting the Tiangong built in 2 years is super impressive, though.
eagerly awaiting china refusing american participation in their mars orbital facility before i die of preventable illnesses in decaying america
American astronauts, as they struggle to breathe in a sealed-off section of the habitat:
"What the fuck is plaid mode? Why the fuck can't I get out of this menu? The airlock won't release from this menu and there's no manual release, fuck fuck!"
Reading through that truscum wrecker’s post was straight up self harm. I thought I was that guy for a long time, considered myself nonbinary but presented as just a copy-pasted tech bro nerd. Now I’m on e and very visibly queer and I still get insecure about that
As a person that’s freshly accepting trying to live my life or at least moving towards living it as not a cisguy, it was pretty laser focused on insecurities I’ve had rolling around lately lol
:trans-heart: I’vr got a lengthy list in my phone of Things Cis People Don’t Do. There are days where I still see a cis guy in the mirror and don’t mind it a ton, but those days are few and far between and I’m pretty sure are more a result of emotional numbness than anything else.
Not to say it's the only way to go about or think of it but it really is a second puberty. That also meant looking weirdly pubescent (again) as my body changed and I learned how to dress/present myself again etc
Idk, shit's awkward at times lol
Yeah I just skipped over a bunch of social stuff during my first puberty because I couldn’t be bothered to figure out how to enjoy dressing like any of my cis guy friends, for example. The most subversive thing they did was wear skinny jeans. I’ll stick the baggiest everything I can find every single day, thank you very much.
What’s up future me? Do you know anywhere that can use like 50 pairs of basketball shorts? No particular reason
I think you mean pajama shorts.
When experimenting with new clothes go thrifting. Shit's cheap so if you mess up it's not a huge loss. Some urban thrift stores are queer friendly too.
TIL my pajama collection is expansive. I’ll have to try thrifting. Buying clothes in general is a process I’m still grasping. I used to run blue tshirts into the ground before buying new ones
It's literally just a process in general. Stores are designed to keep you inside as long as possible. The only thing you'd technically want to buy new is socks and underwear. But everything from dresses to jeans to coats can be thrifted. Keep close track of sizes of things you thrift so when you buy new you don't have to dick around too much. Also, changing rooms are necessary for fem clothes until you get used to a brand's sizing.
I gave up on bras because they're too dang expensive, but if you need one most mainstream stores do free fittings. Then you can go to cheaper shops after you have your size. If you just started E recently you might need to switch sizes periodically for ~5yrs.
I'm cis, but even I cringe at my tech bro nerd phase. Christ, I had the douchey haircut and everything, looked like generic young professional white guy LinkedIn profile picture 563644.
The way I see it, I leaned really hard into playing the part to support my family. There’s a lot of things I regret from back then, but that wasn’t one of them
Currently on a bus where maskless passengers are having audibly productive coughing fits :this-is-fine:
Trying to figure out if I got followed home by the cops last night cause I'm gay, cause I'm butch, or cause I still wear a mask in stores.
Particularly hate having a squad car creep behind me for ten blocks narrating my every move on their radio so loud I can hear it. I've never been to this city before so surely it can't be cause they know im a communist shit stirrer, I wasn't even wearing my :acab-2: shirt
anyway, :luau: :grillman: