I gotta say, I’m surprised and not surprised at the same time. First I’m surprised I didn’t find articles about the faked spacewalk sooner, and second, I suppose I should’ve seen it coming.
For an in-depth and indisputable fact-by-fact analysis of how the spacewalk was faked, check this link of an interview with a Dr. Qu Zheng, a Chinese expert who worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In regards to others questioning Dr. Qu Zheng on the plausibility of the CCP actually faking something of this enormity and so badly, he responds “they actually understand that my points are reasonable, but they cannot emotionally accept it,” and I think he’s right. People will grit their teeth and fight to the death to defend something that’s been analyzed and proven fake.
China will eventually make it up there and truly spacewalk one day, but it doesn’t look like they’re there yet.
End with a quote off a YouTube:
they didn’t fake it! traces of melamine were found floating in space.
I finally got smart and started using Google Reader to keep up with all my friend’s blogs, and now that I’m using it, I think I must’ve been insane to have brushed it off as another stupid Google tool. Seriously, this is so easy. With everyone using different blog tools or sites, it’s difficult to keep a list and visit each site to read up on the content. Google Reader allows me to read it all on one page. Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger, WordPress or whatever—I can add each individual RSS to a gReader and spare myself the frustration of making sure I’m read on all my friend’s sites.
After reading that first paragraph to myself, I realized that this has always been possible with RSS/Atom feeds, but I never really thought to use them in this way before. It’s always taking a feed and plugging it in somewhere else for me, never taking feeds and putting it in one place to read like a newspaper.
Anyways, it’s still good to have made the discovery for myself.
» Age
At first it was, “oh hey, I Love Lucy and Dick Van Dyke reruns!”
Then it was, “cool! Taxi reruns!”
Which was followed by, “I think I’ve seen this episode of SNL before…”
And now it’s, “Roseanne? Fresh Prince? GEORGE LOPEZ?!?!” and “WHEN DID SNL GET THIS BAD o_O?”
Needless to say, I no longer feel young, which is sad because I know I am. But when most of the new people I meet are at least a few years younger than I am, it’s hard to feel otherwise. Maybe it’s just my luck, or maybe this is what I should expect since I’m still running around college/universities, but one of my newest friends was born in 1990. I didn’t even know that was possible.
Anyways, this entry wasn’t meant to be a gripe about growing old. I just wanted to state some of my observations, and now that I have, I feel old. Which is sad because I know I’m not. (I think.)
» Obama's first weekly youtube address
Weekly addresses to explain his policies and plans to the people. Such a great idea, and yet it took 70+ years for someone to mimic Roosevelt’s fireside chats.
» BBC NEWS | UK | Wife murdered for Facebook status
Estranged psychopathic lovers—yet another reason we should stop using social networks.
