Something else regarding the disingenuine media and click bait.
Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle about China crashing space junk into the Indian Ocean near Malaysia that was potentially dangerous. A bit of a stoush between NASA and China over whether or not it was safe or not to do so. Mainly hyperbolic no one hurt etc.
On the news yesterday, the news presenters here on Channel 7 decided to try and loosely link these events to space junk crash landing in a paddock near Jindabyne in southern NSW. Thing is, they initially stated on the news that it was from China, went on to describe the fins as one from the Space X rocket (Elon Musk's), only to conclude that they are yet to attribute the space junk to anyone at this point in time, and then cut to some excited space nerds who simply played the ball with a straight bat, stated no one was harmed, then stated that someone could have been harmed.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia...r-AA10adbs
Whats with the stir up of anti Chinese sentiment?
Sure, they cant be trusted politically, but they are a trading partner, last I checked the majority of space junk has been generated by none other than the USA or Russia (pick 1 it would be more accurate) and the Indian Ocean near Malaysia is a far cry from Jindabyne in NSW.
Very irresponsible reporting IMHO. There are plenty of reasons to dislike China, and this is probably not one of them.
Recently there was a bit of a kerfuffle about China crashing space junk into the Indian Ocean near Malaysia that was potentially dangerous. A bit of a stoush between NASA and China over whether or not it was safe or not to do so. Mainly hyperbolic no one hurt etc.
On the news yesterday, the news presenters here on Channel 7 decided to try and loosely link these events to space junk crash landing in a paddock near Jindabyne in southern NSW. Thing is, they initially stated on the news that it was from China, went on to describe the fins as one from the Space X rocket (Elon Musk's), only to conclude that they are yet to attribute the space junk to anyone at this point in time, and then cut to some excited space nerds who simply played the ball with a straight bat, stated no one was harmed, then stated that someone could have been harmed.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia...r-AA10adbs
Whats with the stir up of anti Chinese sentiment?
Sure, they cant be trusted politically, but they are a trading partner, last I checked the majority of space junk has been generated by none other than the USA or Russia (pick 1 it would be more accurate) and the Indian Ocean near Malaysia is a far cry from Jindabyne in NSW.
Very irresponsible reporting IMHO. There are plenty of reasons to dislike China, and this is probably not one of them.
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Paul Hewson
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