News - China picks top 30 songs for moon satellite

China picks top 30 songs for moon satellite

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2535745

Oct 6, 2006 - BEIJING (Reuters) - China marked Friday's Moon Festival
by announcing 30 songs to be broadcast to Earth next year from its
first lunar-probing satellite.

The song that got the most votes was the folk ballad, "My Wonderful
Home Town," followed by "I Love China," "Singing Praises of Motherland"
and 27 others, Xinhua news agency said.

The songs were chosen according to public votes and by a panel of
experts, organized by the Commission of Science, Technology and
Industry for National Defense, China Central Television and the China
Musicians' Association.

"Experts said these songs can express Chinese people's love for the
motherland, for life, peace and their pursuit of truth and nature,
which will showcase the beauty of Chinese culture and its influence,"
Xinhua said.

China's national anthem and "The East is Red," a tribute to Mao Zedong,
which was broadcast in 1970 from the country's first man-made
terrestrial satellite, will also be played.

The lunar satellite is designed to obtain 3D images of the lunar
surface, analyze elements and probe the depth of the lunar soil. It
will orbit the moon for one year.

Last October, two Chinese astronauts rocketed into orbit and promptly
helped themselves to pineapple-filled mooncakes, traditional fare
during the Mid-Autumn, or Moon, Festival.

China puts its first man in orbit in 2003.

On 6 Oct 2006 07:59:35 -0700, "Rusty" wrote:

The song that got the most votes was the folk ballad, "My Wonderful
Home Town," followed by "I Love China," "Singing Praises of Motherland"
and 27 others, Xinhua news agency said.

....Noting the lack of any Wham!, I suspect that George Michael is
still persona non grata over there :-P

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Rusty wrote:

China picks top 30 songs for moon satellite

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2535745

Oct 6, 2006 - BEIJING (Reuters) - China marked Friday's Moon Festival
by announcing 30 songs to be broadcast to Earth next year from its
first lunar-probing satellite.


Comrade! No "China Girl" by Comrade D. Bowie?
No "Chopsticks" by Comrade E. Allen?
No "Bad Moon Rising" by Comrades CCR*?
Is cult of Chinese personality!
Meanwhile, Russia celebrates fiftieth anniversary of Sputnik be
inventing chicken that can walk on all fours!:
http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/nestling-947
Like Soviet Union of Sputnik days, is a bit deformed and unnatural...but
real attention getter!
To hell with New Soviet Man, here comes Nearly Nude Russian Woman!:
http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/show-956/0/
(Patski starts smacking shoe on desk)
Is VERY HOT...don't wait for the translaton..."da" or "nyet"?!
Milla Jovovich exiled to Gorki of beauty by Natasha Koroleva's New
Russian Front! :-)

* Note similarity to "CCCP"...is not coincidence...band are moles to
undermine American morals; real name is "Communists Causing Revolution".

Patski