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Old October 11th 03, 05:10 PM
Andrew Yee
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IKONOS IMAGE OF THE WEEK: October 5, 2003

Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China
[http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm]

Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter resolution
satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwestern
China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The image
shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the
map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581,
longitude 100.2912. According to news reports and the Chinese News Agency, China
is set to launch their first astronaut into space next week making them only the
third nation to launch a manned-spacecraft into orbit.

Credit: Space Imaging

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Old October 12th 03, 06:57 AM
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"Andrew Yee" wrote in message
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Space Imaging
Thornton, Colorado

IKONOS IMAGE OF THE WEEK: October 5, 2003

Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China
[http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm]

Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled one-meter

resolution
satellite image of China's expansive Jiuquan Space Launch Center in

northwestern
China about 100 kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The

image
shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates taken from the
map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be located at latitude 40.9581,
longitude 100.2912. According to news reports and the Chinese News Agency,

China
is set to launch their first astronaut into space next week making them

only the
third nation to launch a manned-spacecraft into orbit.

Credit: Space Imaging

Nice launch pad... (no LV visible and feeling cynical).
Nice tribute to a dictatorship that's killed hundreds of thousands of
people - when does GWB start bombing this one? Or does he only have enough
guts to take on countries with no capability to defend themselves?

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Old October 12th 03, 05:09 PM
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Andrew Yee wrote

Jiuquan Space Launch Center, China
[http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/...-05/index.htm]


Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite collected this resampled
one-meter resolution satellite image of China's expansive
Jiuquan Space Launch Center in northwestern China about 100
kilometers north of the city of Jiuquan Oct. 4, 2003. The image
shows the vehicle assembly area and launch pad. Coordinates
taken from the map-accurate image shows the launch pad to be
located at latitude 40.9581, longitude 100.2912.



Interestingly, the present coverage shows that the "Jiuquan"
center isn't particularly near Jiuquan, and it's actually in
Inner Mongolia, not the commonly-cited Gansu Province. The
support base, for you with China maps, is in a small town
called Huxi Xincun (or Hexixincun). See the www.globalsecurity.org
picture gallery for details.

Apparently Huxi Xincun is to Jiuquan as Leninsk was to Baikonur.
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Old October 12th 03, 05:15 PM
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Alan Erskine wrote:

Nice launch pad... (no LV visible and feeling cynical).
Nice tribute to a dictatorship that's killed hundreds of thousands of
people - when does GWB start bombing this one? Or does he only have enough
guts to take on countries with no capability to defend themselves?


Lenin said that you may always count upon a capitalist to sell you the
rope you are going to hang him with- the rope is on sale for $2.98 this
week at Walmart; along with lots of other Chinese-made products.

Pat

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Old October 12th 03, 10:39 PM
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:15:29 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Alan Erskine wrote:


....Dunno if he's the real one or not, but at least he's killfiled.

Lenin said that you may always count upon a capitalist to sell you the
rope you are going to hang him with- the rope is on sale for $2.98 this
week at Walmart; along with lots of other Chinese-made products.


....The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated
the same way Stalin did in Trotsky.


OM

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Old October 12th 03, 11:17 PM
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OM wrote:

...The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated
the same way Stalin did in Trotsky.


OM



His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have
probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red
had been standing.

Pat

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Old October 13th 03, 12:29 AM
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On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:17:58 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have
probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red
had been standing.



Maybe YOU should write to Scientific American, you might have just
explained what that big thing on Jupiter is! G
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Old October 13th 03, 05:11 AM
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"Rick DeNatale" wrote in message
news
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:17:58 -0500, Pat Flannery wrote:

His dad would have known how to deal with Comrade L.- it would have
probably involved the Cossacks, and left only a red spot where the Red
had been standing.



Maybe YOU should write to Scientific American, you might have just
explained what that big thing on Jupiter is! G


NO!!! I mean, pllleeeze don't give Pat the idea of writing to a magazine
with his ideas - he'll eventually tell the rest of the world about us and
our credibility will be shot to hell! ;-)


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peculiar position of toppling foreign
governments in the name of democracy.

Oh, how democractic!



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Old October 13th 03, 05:29 AM
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In article ,
OM om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_researc h_facility.org wrote:
...The biggest mistake the Tsar made was not having Lenin assasinated
the same way Stalin did in Trotsky.


Never mind the Tsar -- the biggest mistake the *Russian Communist Party*
made was not having Lenin assassinated.

(Lenin got a very chilly reception from the local party leaders when he
arrived in Moscow after years in exile, calling for immediate violent
revolution. They were trying to work something out with the rest of the
fumbling factions then struggling to create a workable post-Tsar
government. Only Lenin and his immediate followers, who were initially
not very numerous and not very convincing, were totally opposed to deals
and power-sharing. Had the more moderate Communists realized what was
coming, inconspicuously murdering Lenin would have looked very attractive.)
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