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gedaliyah Jul 2, 2024

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket - Lemmy.World

The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand “due to a structural failure.” Video of the accidental ascent showed the rocket rising several hundred meters into the sky before it crashed explosively into a mountain 1.5 km away from the test site.

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RecluseRamble Jul 2, 2024

The test stand is only about 5 km away from the city’s downtown and less than a kilometer from a smaller village.

No NIMBY in The People’s Republic ™.

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Liz Jul 2, 2024

I’m pretty sure it’s ridiculously hard to stop government projects in your backyard there. The best you can do is refuse to sell your land.

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verity_kindle

It won’t matter if you do, unless you’re a Party member. Example: the completion of the Three Gorges Dam was accompanied by forcing upwards of 30 million people to move. No compensation or new housing provided…just move somewhere else or you’ll drown. Fascinating book based on his long term reporting (I think New York Times IIRC), “River Town” by Peter Hessler. He was there, he lived it.