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There are instances of copying. That doesn't mean all successful technologies are copied. Some technologies are harder to independently develop. Supposedly adva
by FooBarWidget 5y ago
There are instances of copying. That doesn't mean all successful technologies are copied. Some technologies are harder to independently develop. Supposedly advanced jet engines are really really hard, but space technology strangely less so, because of lower safety requirements.
In other words: for the claim "their space technology is stolen", more proof is needed. Just because they copied some other area is not enough proof to say they copied this area.
- mike_d 5y agoThe burden of proof is not on a random person on the internet to investigate their space program. I can't prove the technology is stolen, just as much as you can't prove that it isn't. We are not nation-states and don't have the access or resources. But a reasonable person can look at a pattern of behavior and extrapolate. If China in this case was a CS academic that had plagiarized a few papers, HN wouldn't be falling over themselves to give them the benefit of the doubt on their latest work.