“Misdirection is the key to survival, never attack what your enemy defends, never behave as your enemy expects, and never reveal your true strength. If knowledge is power then to be unknown is to be unconquerable.”
Medical engineer in Thailand with chronic headache from west-worshipping libs here.
…and, of course, paywalled.
Good? Not sure. Completely justified in their counteroffensive against Super Earth? Absolutely.
I mean, I could think of this as an extension of existing space infrastructure, allow using the spaceport as hub for extra-fast delivery.
The problem is this require said spaceport to existed in the first place, which we still have exactly zero of it.
Chinese commercial launch sector is very, very competitive area, where at least a dozen company still fighting over each other to find their own niche to fulfill. Land launch, sea launch, solid fuel, Lox/LH2 rocket, Lox/Methane rocket, expendable, reusable, Falcon 9 clone, mini-falcon 9, small payload rocket, gigantic rocket, and more. And this is only the commercial sector. I haven’t even touch what the CASC and other state-own agencies are probably working on. (probably, because a lot of what they are working on is dual civilian-military program, which came with fuck tons of secrecy as a result). My guess is this is their attempt to gain investors and find their own place, nothing more.
Curiously, compare to more prominent players like Deep Blue Aerospace, LandSpace, Galactic Energy, or iSpace (seriously?), I don’t think the name Space Epoch came up very often. Like with almost ALL Chinese commercial launch companies, what they will produce, if it went anywere, remain to be seen.
“I wondered how many people who talked about the novel so glibly had ever read it; or if they had, whether they remembered it at all.” - Issac Asimov
The sheer confident, ignorant, evilness, or combinations of three that one must have to write that…
Ramakien (wikipedia link)
It’s the only one I remembered, thanks to secondary school. I remember that they are other mythology, mostly in the form of children stories, but I can’t remember the name or even the plot.
[warning : incoming rant]
Frankly, literatures is one of my least favorite subject in my entire school years, partly thanks to many local literatures that was so terribly written I have no idea why people still talk about them fondly. For heck sake, one of the first story we learn in primary school is a few step away from being a porn. Compare to these, at least Ramakien is somewhat enjoyable.
[end rant]
I’m Thai, so, thanks to the Buddhism-with-Hinduism-characteristic over here, I’m a bit familiar with a few of localized version of Hindu mythology, including Ramayana. I agree, it’s weird when you really think about it.
Big reveal at the end is definitely that you are the bad guy right?
Not sure about the second game, since I’m still not, and will not consider buying it until the server issue is resolved (and even then…), but the first game doesn’t really leave it ambiguous that you are the bad guy to begin with.
And, let me guess, despite that last statement, “I think I need higher pay. I said I want higher pay. I work harder hoping for higher pay.” doesn’t count.
This have the same energy as if something like this appear in 1941 :
To put it mildly…
As describe by one Reuter report :
Imagine taking a chunk of rotting corpse from a stagnant sewer, placing it in a blender and spraying the filthy liquid in your face. Your gag reflex goes off the charts and you can’t escape, because the nauseating stench persists for days.
If they tried to get there again, I hope they didn’t neglected to put toilet facilities onto their spacecraft this time.
VERY.
Clickbaity-patterned video title got such negative stereotype since majority of video with such title tend to be made with minimal efford. Doing so pretty much advertise your vid as “CLICK ME PLZ I NEED VIEW” kind of video, whether that’s your intention or not.
Probably those company management/tycoon/profit min-maxing game. Played a few, does help radicalize a bit.
Just play OpenTTD if you really want to try this genre.
And other generic coping argument.
Hell, some people to this day still held the believe that American won the Vietnam war, for some reason. Not simply “didn’t loss” or “stalemate”, but outright win. So, likely, some of them might never move to the next stage.
I’ll go for “USian” instead, becaus for whatever reasons it seem to pissed them off more.