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China will ramp up its space exploration plans from 2014, with shiny new kit to probe black holes, study dark matter and search for signs of alien life, according to one of the country’s top astro-boffins. Su Dingqiang, former president of the Chinese Astronomical Society and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, revealed …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    soooo.... when can I start running the Chinese version of SET@home?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Sounds like a great idea! I personally would mandate its use in all their cyber cafes, think of the computing power going spare! (when chinese students are not killing orcs after being awake for 62 hours on illegal stimulants

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Initially, I thought this was about porn.

    3. Psyx

      More to the point: Why not just contribute to international projects?

    4. Pedigree-Pete
      Facepalm

      sooo....you really want the Chinese to poke around your demetic PC, not me.

      1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
        Trollface

        In addition to OBAMA@Phone, why not have MAO@Home?

  2. annodomini2
    Coffee/keyboard

    SKA

    No one mentioned Square Kilometre Array to you?

    Where's the 'Wake up and pay attention' icon when you need one!

    This will be the largest single dish telescope, yes, but the most sensitive, will be taken by SKA when it's finished.

  3. SwedishCodeMaffia
    Black Helicopters

    Obviously there's an ulterior motive

    It is unlikely that the Chinese govt is investing lots of CNY in science that would benefit Humanity. If that was the case, they could start with basic human rights, democratization etc.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Obviously there's an ulterior motive

      Full blown democracy is over-rated, just look at the USA & Europe, the rights of the people often come second to what the leaders want to do...

      Personally I think we need less laws stopping us from doing things, and more rights written in stone allowing us to do things...

      1. SwedishCodeMaffia
        WTF?

        Re: Obviously there's an ulterior motive

        .. and how is that not full blown democracy? Liberalism is the daddy.

  4. frank ly

    " ...at a cost of over 700 million yuan (£69.3m)."

    That sounds quite cheap - or have I become desensitised to big-science project costs?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: " ...at a cost of over 700 million yuan (£69.3m)."

      The parts are "Made in China"

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Foxconn

    Will they be slapping it together? If so, can we expect a big Apple badge on it? Also, I'm not sure I'd completely trust the data coming from it, unless that data is properly open and it's got scientists from around the World working on it. They could claim anything they liked. I mean, DID America really land on the moon?

    (Getting the conspiracy party started...)

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Joke

      Re: Foxconn

      I'm sure I would have heard about a continent crashing into the moon.

      (Getting the pedantry party started...)

      1. Pedigree-Pete
        Pint

        Re: Foxconn

        Conspiracy, pedantry, irony & sarcasm are always welcome here:)

        Beer, it's nearly Friday.

    2. Purlieu

      Re: Foxconn

      It wasn't America that crashed into the moon, it was the USA. America is not one country. It may even be two continients, if you consider the southern bit to be separate sort of.

  6. CHRoNoSS

    oh and that satellite could be turned back on earth to find alllllllll the secret things the usa is doing

    and yes Canadians had this tech designed and hte us disallowed it oging into orbit....

  7. mhenriday
    FAIL

    «Always striving to be the biggest and best on Earth,

    China is also set to complete the world’s largest radio telescope in 2016.» Is that your inferiority complex showing, Phil ? Would you have written about the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in these terms ?...

    Henri

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