Kulture: Kurt Vonnegut’s Chinese
move to space in the Long March II F rocket code-named Shenzhou VI. Is this part of their next 5-year plan? One of the primary factors behind the mostly Russian technology based mission is a space station the chinese plan after their unmanned moon shot set for 2010. Launched today, tychonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng became members of the third nation in world history to send a human into orbit. (Chimpanzees don’t count) . It’s only hoped that this focus on space by China wont contribute to the Green Menace or the Albanian Flu gaining a foothold here on Earth. Also of note: the Chinese Communist Army’s Long March of 1934 was primarily a military retreat. Its all about getting that flesh out there in the cold frozen zone of deep space. Not to be confused with Deep Stuff or Deep Thought. But its important to note that kulture in general needs to absorb more of these kind of pioneering impulses. After all, do we really want to be stuck on the same planet with our 9 billion in-laws for the rest of eternity? Please, wont more people in positions of cultural power try to get our governments to push to find us another planet, soon?
