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Originally Posted by Fast Freddy 944
China can up its game with all of the copied, Merican designed space craft and launch vehicles all they want. They are good at copying everything we design and produce. Now build quality will be in question, cheaping out on parts for space suits, vehicles etc. will probably leave the astronaughts dead. All of our vehicles were carefully designed, with tight tolerances, and all critical issues have been addressed. Yeup some mistakes were made, but we learned from our mistakes, addressed em' and corrected em. Cheaping out wont fly in space. Merica!
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So you presume the Chinese aren't capable of learning, and designing or producing things with tight tolerances? That that kind of work is beyond their capabilities?
So all those Nuclear reactors they built and improved
the new ones they designed
Their massive dam
the fusion reactor they managed to fire up not to long ago.
their ICBM's and nuclear warheads
The lunar lander they somehow managed to get there , and land on the moon
Fighter jets
You think all of that was done on the cheap? with ill fitting parts?
If that were true they would have had nuclear accidents long ago.
It seems very odd that you in one paragraph go from chest thumping over old glory (Moon landings and shuttle), and at the same time admit own mistakes (apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia) and just say "well we learned" in a smug way that makes it sound like nobody else could possibly ever learn from those things the way the us did.
That they sell cheap crap via AliExpress doesn't mean they can't produce quality engineering when they need it.
They have 1.4 billion people, that's close to a billion more Chinese then Americans.
Even if , out of all their engineering graduates.. they have just 10% capable of High Quality Engineering.. They'll still beat the US in output and cover their needs for Space projects.
And have you ever known Asians to have a bad reputation when it comes to maths?
nope.
Considering the US has had 15 people die in spaceflight , Rooskies had 4
The Chinese sent 11 up, 11 came down, if you want to talk about a good safety record.. they have it covered.
So far they have managed not to kill anybody.. Which isn't bad at all.
Maybe not the highest volume.. but you can't fault em for their safety record at this point.
Even if for some reason their engineers at graduation had a lower percentage of High Output, High Quality.. compared to the US engineers at graduation
They more then cover that in absolute numbers cause there's a billion more of them to begin with, so they have so much more engineering students to pick from.
Their top 1% is bigger then the US or European top 1%....combined.