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The headline should be "China claims to successfully land..." Given the government and business tendency in China to make claims that later turn out to be fabri
by dopylitty 8y ago
The headline should be "China claims to successfully land..." Given the government and business tendency in China to make claims that later turn out to be fabricated nothing they announce should be taken as true without independent verification.
- Symmetry 8y agoHow clever of them to have faked a rover failure with Chang'e 3 then, so that we'd believe them now if they report that the rover works. But seriously, we haven't seen any indications of the CNSA faking anything. China isn't a person, it's a whole big country. The fact that Bernie Madoff defrauded a huge number of people doesn't mean that you can't trust NASA.
- Symmetry 8y agoI don't want to sing the praises of CNSA's openness here. They have a history of keeping things secret until they work out, like the Soviets did. And probably there are failures we'll never hear about. But if they say they landed a probe on the far side of the Moon then there isn't reason to doubt them.
- microdrum 8y agoSeconded. That is the proper contextualization for news out of CH.
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y agoSwitzerland?
- philwelch 8y agoThis isn't really impressive enough to be worth the risk of lying about, and anything that was impressive enough would be worth verifying so you couldn't lie about it anyway. If they're going to lie about something, it would be something they would have total information control over in the first place, like, "no, of course we didn't try to launch a rocket on this date".