Diogenes’ Middle Finger
A startling rumor has surfaced that earlier this year the People’s Republic of China, the most innovative nation on the planet of stolen technology, that has made such amazing technological advances as high-speed trains that sometimes don’t need rails, high-rise buildings that autonomously destroy themselves to create more open spaces in cities, self-driving, self-exploding EVs, and self-cleaning sewer systems which also explode and spew human feces over city streets has now created the world’s first autonomous self-sinking nuclear attack submarine. more
Copying is easy. Understanding is harder. Godless communists don’t need no stinkin’ understanding. They’ll tell you even unasked.
Communism/Socialism/and every ism in between removes the incentive to produce quality. The collectivist/totalitarian system ALWAYS comes back to bite the central planners in the ass. This is just the latest example of “who gives a shit, I no ride submarine”.
China was my area of responsibility when I was an imagery interpreter with the USAF back in the late 70’s. This is the kind of thing we looked for after we surveilled our list of established targets. We used the KH-8, KH-9 and KH-11 satellites. We would scan the coastline and countryside looking for whatever was of significant intelligence value. The resolution of the KH-8 satellite was much better than what you see in this article. It still holds the world record for photographic resolution from a space-based platform. We became very good at understanding what we were looking at on the imagery. It was very rewarding work during the Cold War. The Chicoms are evil beyond most people’s understanding. The fact that Tim Walz is so friendly with them is disturbing.
My dad told me a story long, long ago about Rolls-Royce buying a new Buick, taking the engine completely apart and buffing every single piece smooth, the idea being that the result would be superior. It wouldn’t start. Apparently at least one part needed the roughness.
Always good to know exactly how and why something works if you’re going to try to replicate it.
What? No mention of how they made us the laughingstock with their ultra high-tech surveillance balloon? Oh, and I almost forgot to mention their spies working for members of congress. Oh, and all that farmland they are buying up around our military bases. Oh, and………..
The chinks have a lot of chinks in their armor so that they have to steal western technology because they cannot produce anything good that works on their own. And when they do steal it, they manage to bungle it and build an inferior product because of communism. Communists of all stripes can’t build shit that works like it’s supposed to, and the Russians are just as bad as the chicoms.
Given whonis running our country and the disasters they’ve creates, can we really laugh at the communizts?
@Dr. Hambone: Did you get a portrait of Walz in any of those pics?
@Left Coast Dan FRIDAY, 4 OCTOBER 2024, 13:23 AT 1:23 PM
Years ago, something similar happened with one of our bearings (Allison). Rolls replicated it and created an artistic triumph, polished, gleaming and superior in every way… except it didn’t work. There was something about metallurgy that we understood that they didn’t.
^^^ maybe that related to tolerance?
most things don’t work too well when they ‘run out of tolerance’
the thing lots of people are running out of