I suppose if you really wanted to stretch a point, you could say that crashing is a form of landing.
I also can't help but notice that they never tried again.
It's kinda adorable in a way. Like watching 2 retarded kids thrashing around in a ball pit and each declaring themselves the winner.
And it still doesn't address the most salient point. Neither china nor india has ANY history of blue water naval operations. You don't just wish that into existence. You have to put in a couple of generations of hard work to make it happen. And they haven't. You can steal, or buy or build the hardware, but you can't buy or steal the human capital and institutionalized knowledge it takes to make it work.
BulletStopper 1 points 7 months ago
55 years after we'd already done it with live humans, and with technology they'd stolen from us that was 2 generations more advanced than 1969.
Uh-huh. For certain values of the word "land".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr3F95p-Zc
I suppose if you really wanted to stretch a point, you could say that crashing is a form of landing.
I also can't help but notice that they never tried again.
It's kinda adorable in a way. Like watching 2 retarded kids thrashing around in a ball pit and each declaring themselves the winner.
And it still doesn't address the most salient point. Neither china nor india has ANY history of blue water naval operations. You don't just wish that into existence. You have to put in a couple of generations of hard work to make it happen. And they haven't. You can steal, or buy or build the hardware, but you can't buy or steal the human capital and institutionalized knowledge it takes to make it work.
You can't "speed run" a coral reef.