Yao Ming was awarded the title of China's top ten young people

great news. thanks windandsea. just out of curiosity, who are these ten, besides yang and yao?

 

Lieutenant Colonel Yang Liwei is the No. 1. He is the first astronaut of China who went to the space.

 

good. i was afraid they might give it to amare stodamire instead.

 

The astronaunt guy is almost 40 years old. He's considered a young person? He's getting close to collecting social security.

 

My vote goes to Yang Liwei #1, Yao Ming #2.
China's ability to put a man into space is proof that Chinese technology is not crap anymore and it is getting a lot better...
Chinese superior version of the DVD called EVD(5 times the resolution of DVD) will kick a$$. and not very long a Chinese made stealth fighter will be realizable.
Those who think Made in China is a joke and the Chinese are incapable of advanced tech are in for a shock and get their a$$ kicked

anyways Yao Ming will be the best center hopefully

 

Where to buy this EVD thing? I want to use it to tape Rox games.

 

Too bad for him that there is no social security in China

 

Maybe they should start a "top ten people fighting for the freedom of the chinese people as compared to the chinese socialist government who wants to crush freedom of expression or anything they don't agree with" list . Would Yao be on it? Just wondering !

 

We already have American government fighting for us already.

But...Thanks but no thanks.

 

Yeah, good thing the American government doesn't do stuff like that, right? Unless, of course, you disagree with the policies of the current administration, in which case you're branded as non-patriotic and a traitor.

 

"Maybe they should start a "top ten people fighting for the freedom of the chinese people as compared to the chinese socialist government who wants to crush freedom of expression or anything they don't agree with" list . Would Yao be on it? Just wondering !"

Westerners love to open their mouth about human rights. Weren't these guys the same ones that colonized everyone and treated everybody like garbage and thought they were superior to everyone with their superior values and had to the right to colonize, civilize and enlighten the world?
You talk like China is so closed or know nothing about Hollywood and world(ho hum they all watched Yao, kobe, iverson etc...and watch hollywood video and american actors and stuff on their tvs)
....hey there are way worse human rights abusers than china.....why don't you open your mouth about U.S. ally Saudi Arabia where they chop ppl head off in front of the public or Afghanistan where the public still get treated like crap. or the american colonization of Iraq?

Anyways, the american media of china is kinda biased...everything is neutral or negative, don't tell two sides of the story. Maybe a powerful authoritarian government is better for china for now....a temporary thing though...it is a waste of time to keep talking and arguing and do nothing you know what i mean. Taiwan and South Korea was like that before they got to vote. TW and SK were third world....now they are modern and pretty advanced.

China might to be heading to democracy slowly though...overnight democracy could be chaotic and democracy needs time to be implemented. i bet the western media didn't really tell you that elections are held at village level huh? or chinese president Hu Jintao wants a better more efficient government to serve the interests of the ppl.
i bet you didn't know that.

 

No offense. Not sure about that. From what I read, the Chinese were borrowing much of their space age technology from the Russian. Even the space capsule this time looks very similar to that of the Russian.

 

Nationalistic propoganda.

 

I think you are referring to the American media prior to the Iraqi war?

 

Maybe the Russians borrowed their space age tech from the USA as well, like borrowing a book or something? Also, the return capsule is 2.5 meters wide, in contrary to Russian's 2.2 meters.

 

Can we please get this thread back to Yao and not China's space program and nationalistic propaganda?

 

OOP! Sorry. Didnt know the Chinese copied the older version of the Russian.

 

"OOP! Sorry. Didnt know the Chinese copied the older version of the Russian."

stupid

The Chinese Shenzhou spacecraft is superior to the Rusian Soyuz dork. it is not a copy....it might be based on it but it is not even close to being a copy. shenzhou has 4 solar panels and 3 times the electrical power, soyuz only 2. shenzhou orbital module stays in orbit for 6 months with independnt manuerability, russan orbital module burns up. shenzhou has escape capabiltity during initial rocketflight, soyuz does not. there are more features i can name. the shenzhou was launched on an indigenous homemade rocket too and carried advanced reconiasance equipment with a resolution of 1.6meters.

quit your prejudice that the chinese are incapable of technology, just like the western world thought about the "inferior Japanese technology" back then until they proved them wrong. china might be behind and the technology might of been crap back then, but that is due to being closed to the world, not lack of scientific thought.

oh yeah your computer keyboard, mouse, maybe monitor is probably made in china with chinese made microchips, RAMs, harddrive, and motherboard from Taiwan.

 

Put this in another non-basketball forum. Who cares about the Chinese space program. He was up in space for 21 hours. I've taken airplane flights longer than that.