Chinese media is predictive

2008-09-29 18:29:32

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FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6830|'Murka

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7826249

BEIJING (AP) - A news story describing a successful launch of China's long-awaited space mission and including detailed dialogue between astronauts launched on the Internet Thursday, hours before the rocket had even left the ground.

And people say Fox News is bad...

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2008-09-29 18:31:14

#2

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6948|Global Command

I Bet they never even launched.

2008-09-29 18:31:35

#3

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7051|949

I bet our government drafts press releases too. At least we don't have an "official" news agency though.

2008-09-29 18:33:05

#4

ATG: Banned; +5,233|6948|Global Command

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I bet our government drafts press releases too. At least we don't have an "official" news agency though.

A guy could post a report from the launching pad from his Blackberry.

The only reason to precreate news is if you are selling a lie.

2008-09-29 18:35:18

#5

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7051|949

You're right, only the Chinese government would do such a thing. How incredibly naive of me.

2008-09-29 18:37:20

#6

Hurricane2k9: Pendulous Sweaty Balls; +1,538|6121|College Park, MD

We do precreate some stuff. Obituaries for one. There was some incident a month ago where Steve Jobs' obituary was accidentally published online. They make them before death for celebrities and large public figures.

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2008-09-29 18:38:38

#7

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6830|'Murka

But precreating a conversation between ground control and the crew? Seriously?

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2008-09-29 18:41:56

#8

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7051|949

FEOS wrote:
But precreating a conversation between ground control and the crew? Seriously?

They are trying desperately to maintain control of an exploding urban population.

Here was the real conversation (or was it )

Colonel Zhai Zhigang, radioed these calming words to President Hu Jintao and the Chinese people once he had finished his mission: "The space-walk mission has been accomplished smoothly. Please set your mind at ease, chairman Hu and the people of China. In the vastness of space, I felt proud of our motherland."

2008-09-30 04:49:30

#9

M.O.A.B: 'Light 'em up!'; +1,220|6642|Escea

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Colonel Zhai Zhigang, radioed these calming words to President Hu Jintao and the Chinese people once he had finished his mission: "The space-walk mission has been accomplished smoothly. Please set your mind at ease, chairman Hu and the people of China. In the vastness of space, I felt proud of our motherland."

Whoa, can that statement get any more communist lol?

I hear they're going to build their own orbital weapons platform space station as well.

2008-09-30 05:29:08

#10

imortal: Member; +240|7084|Austin, TX

ATG wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
I bet our government drafts press releases too. At least we don't have an "official" news agency though.
A guy could post a report from the launching pad from his Blackberry.

The only reason to precreate news is if you are selling a lie.

Didn't a newspaper accidentally publish a story about Kerry narrowly losing the '04 election about 6 weeks before the election happened?

2008-09-30 05:48:12

#11

Dilbert_X: The X stands for; +1,822|6525|eXtreme to the maX

But precreating a conversation between ground control and the crew? Seriously?

Its almost like going before the UN and putting forward 'evidence' you know to be total bullshit.
And claiming you're going to find WMD when you know there are none.

'Precreating' a conversation about complete trivia? Meh.

Fuck Israel

2008-09-30 05:57:46

#12

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7040|London, England

They didn't even need to do that. The whole thing seemed to have gone as planned. All it does is take away from the success. Now it makes people think if it even happened. It probably did, but y'know...

silly chicoms

2008-09-30 06:13:00

#13

Braddock: Agitator; +916|6709|Éire

My mate used to work for TV3 news in Ireland and they prerecorded the news of the last Pope dying so they could go home early and aired the footage accidentally before he actually croaked it... they got in a bit of trouble for that!

2008-09-30 06:25:21

#14

Kuffar: Member; +11|6132

lmao

2008-09-30 07:34:39

#15

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6944|South Florida

Kuffar wrote:
lmao

15 more years! 15 more years!

2008-09-30 16:37:11

#16

FEOS: Bellicose Yankee Air Pirate; +1,182|6830|'Murka

Dilbert_X wrote:
But precreating a conversation between ground control and the crew? Seriously?
Its almost like going before the UN and putting forward 'evidence' you know to be total bullshit.
And claiming you're going to find WMD when you know there are none.

'Precreating' a conversation about complete trivia? Meh.

Wow. I'm shocked. You managed to get in an Iraq war dig in a thread that has nothing to do with it. And a clumsy dig at that.

I'm not even going to address the inanity (again) of your ridiculous posts. You're as bad as your brother rammunition.

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular

2008-09-30 16:58:48

#17

CameronPoe: Member; +2,925|6974

When I visited Beijing to find the national museum on Tiananmen Square had been temporarily closed 'in preparation for the Olympics' (i.e., embarrassment-avoidance history revision) I kind of got the picture as to how they rolled... they just placed a massive Olympics countdown clock in front of what would normally be the front door...

Last edited by CameronPoe (2008-09-30 16:59:13)

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