Freitag, 24. Oktober 2008

Chinese bubbles in space

The Chinese are a very proud race. Actually they're so proud that their pride sometimes stands in their way. This can either end in tears, but that's not what I want to show you. I want to make you laugh.
About a month ago the Chinese sent a couple of Taikonauts (Chinese for astronaut) into space. The Chinese were very proud of that, as it was their second mission where they sent men into space. In fact they were so very proud that they even published a news-story including the detailed dialogue between the Taikonauts - hours before the spaceship even left the ground. Read the AP-story about this.
Now, it seems that this wasn't the only goof in Chinese publicity for this mission. Watch the video below: Right at the beginning - in the first one or two seconds - you can see an air bubble rising from the exit for the Taikonaut. This phenomenom appears again at minutes 5.52, 6.44 and 7.19. I havent't been in space myself yet - and probably never will - but this is the first time I've seen something like this.



I want to make something clear: I don't doubt that the Chinese actually were in space. Several nations are watching the skies, they would have told the Chinese not to tell lies. But to me it seems like the space-walk was re-performed (or pre-performed?) in a water tank. Maybe something happened to the original video - or there wasn't any? Or the Taikonauts never really left their space ship? The last possibility is, that the Chinese have filmed a phenomenon that no-one has ever seen before. Questions and questions... We will probably never know the answer.

1 Kommentar:

Unknown hat gesagt…

Very odd video! I don't know about the bubbles either.. I'd say snoop around on forums!