Reply With QuoteConsidering the V2 was the first object sent into space or sub orbital flight, I think its a good benchmark to start with.Originally Posted by HardThunder
our media seldom report indepth report about china's economy.
in the dire strait of financial crisis of 2008-2009, we saw china's growth and export delined significantly, together with the rest of the world, but the unnoticed is china's middle provinces(a territory about the size of india, populated by 300 million), they are the real growth engine of world economy in that year with breathtaking growth rate of 15%, china's inner Mongolia province has been the star with a growth 25% annually since 2007.
clearly mid-china is taking over coastline china to put china to next level econ growth, which is non-export oriented, technological integrated, and consumption driven.
remember china still has a vastland of western china. that's why i said in another post that china is the only country comparable to the united states of early 1900s.
Considering the V2 was the first object sent into space or sub orbital flight, I think its a good benchmark to start with.
Nope. They both got their hands on V-2s but it was the weapons aspect they were interested in. The space race didn't start until Sputnik was up.
Ahh, no? They studied V2 and used it as basis of development of own rockets. Along with german scientist that were took along. So ye, V2 is begin of the race.
Nope. The Space Race started with Sputnik. Go look up just about anything on "Space Race" and you'll see that it was Sputnik that got the ball rolling. Everybody knows both sides studied the V-2 but that was for development of long range missiles as WEAPONS. The focus on earth orbit didn't heat up until Russia put up Sputnik.
Russia has brought 2 dogs up to 101km with R-1 that was copied from V-2. Its true that there were developed at weapons first, but scientist that worked on them wished for space travel aswell.
Go read the history. You'll find almost all the work was to develop weapons and was in no way designed from the outset for satellites. Sputnik was launched by Russia's first ICBM. (It was an ICBM that could launch satellites not a space launcher converted into an ICBM.) In the US? Redstone was a battlefield missile, Atlas an ICBM, Titan an ICBM, Thor and Jupiter were IRBMs. Seeing a trend? Once the USSR launched Sputnik (with an ICBM) it started the Space Race. Before 1957 missile work was almost exclusively geared towards weapons, not space flight.
Sergei Korolev wanted to launch things into space. Soviet leadership wanted nuclear-armed missiles. Korolev piggybacked his space program on top of Beria's nuclear program.
Soviet leadership didn't realize the benefits of a space program until Sputnik and Gagarin, but it was Korolev's intention from the start to subvert the ICBM research into a manned space program.
I see a new topic needs to be made Gentlemen! So back to the topic. If China build a good foundation for its core economy, what ramifications can we look forward to?
Last edited by HardThunder; 09-27-2010 at 07:57 PM. Reason: typo
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