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The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."

Video of the accidental ascent showed the rocket rising several hundred meters into the sky before it crashed explosively into a mountain 1.5 km away from the test site.

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[–] rsh@lemmy.world 105 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I feel slightly better knowing that the Chinese suffer from Chinesium-based products as much as we do.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I suspect it's actually worse there. This guy has a series called "China fakes everything" which is worth watching

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I watched a couple videos from this channel and done a bit of research and:

  1. This guy never cites or show any sources and
  2. based on his video on the Falun Gong he actively twist the Truth

I would recommend not to listen to a random guy who claims to be an "insider"

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think what he's saying about Falun Gong is so far fetched to be outside the realm of plausibility.

There's been enough reports of similar treatment of other groups, like the Uyghurs and Tibetans, from reputable sources that I believe something is going on there.

As for sources, if the CCP is half as bad as he makes them out to be, it would be irresponsible of him to give sources.

I don't know enough to refute anything you've said, but frankly you're less credible than him right now. I mean no offense but you have a single comment on your account and you've offered nothing to support your claim of twisted truth.

Too much smoke to conclude there's no fire

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not saying that the persecution against Falung Gong is fake, actually I believe is true, violence against minorities is another Wednesday for the CCP, but he specifically say that, and I quote: "Falun Gong is a meditation practice that started in 1992 in China. At the core of the Falun Gong are values of truthfulness, compassion and tolerance." But the omits the fact that that group is anti gay, anti feminism, anti evolution, is anti medicine and is leader is worshipped as a deity. I wouldn't consider someone who spread such lies as a good source, because at that point he could be lying about anything, that's Alex Jones level of manipulation of the Truth. And you're right, the CCP is a terrible dictatorship, b8t all the info that I have said are freely accessible by an internet search, or even on Wikipedia, they're not some hidden secret that need protection from the CCP such that he have the right to just say things without having to prove them.

And yes, I only have this comments, I prefer to just lurk usually, but this doesn't invalidate my points.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

Lurk less. You're making a good contribution here.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I’m not saying that the persecution against Falung Gong is fake, actually I believe is true, violence against minorities is another Wednesday for the CCP

The Falun Gong was originally an ally of the CCP as recently as 1993. They had a falling out when some of their chief leadership got caught in a string of financial scandals and abuse allegations. Attempts by the state to begin prosecuting church leaders triggered an outcry from the membership, which prompted more arrests and more efforts hide the organizations money, and finally a wholesale exodus from the country by its most devoted members.

Falun Gong leadership arrived in the US and immediately began churning out anti-China spin, with the help of the Epoch Times - an originally Chinese-only paper primarily distributed in Chinese ex-pat communities by church refugees. If you get into the history of the Epoch Times, you should very quickly discover that it is not a reliable source of information.

Which isn't to say China's been great wrt religious freedom or free association. But the modern incarnation of Falun Gong has more in common with Scientology than, say, Mormonism or Baháʼí. You're going to fall down some really QAnon-themed rabbit holes if you take everything their community is saying at face value.

[–] WildPalmTree@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That is some fine tuned measuring, my friend. Scientology Vs Mormonism. I appreciate you and your eye for detail.

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

And here's the person who know their shit.

From the 15 minutes on the toilet-grade research that I've done I got the feeling it was a Scientology kind of cult, but I had no idea that they were once affiliated with the CCP.

But now I have looked a bit deeper into them and holy shit they are so much worse then I though. They are so much similar to Scientology in level of infiltration and disinformation about their practices it's a bit scary.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.run 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, none of that was in your original post. Not knowing all of that, I think it was a safe assumption you meant the allegations of mistreatment by the CCP, rather than the Falun Gong claims of benevolence.

Obviously you didn't though, and a quick Google search suggests you might have some valid points. I didn't know any of that!

However, I do want to point out that you could say most of the same things about fundamental Christians, and while I'd personally take the same view of those types ( I do believe they're a dangerous cult) I wouldn't say anyone calling them peaceful religious types was engaging in "Alex Jones level of manipulation of the truth" and wouldn't discount them entirely for holding that view. Particularly when, as you say, it's very likely they are actually being persecuted

But hey, if nothing else I think you've shown that I have no idea what I'm talking about here. Maybe that comparison doesn't actually hold. Also, for all I know he's a bought and paid for propagandist. Honestly, nothing surprises me these days

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 months ago

You're right, I didn't made a good argument in my first comment. I can see how I could have come out as one of "those" CCP defender.

And I also agree about fundamental Christians being basically a coult; when I said "Alex Jones level of manipulation of the truth" I was talking about how Alwx usually takes disreputable sources or missrapresent good ones when making his arguments (like when he said that Putin was a good guy and cited only Russian propaganda outlets, or during the Trump campaign screamed about that the head of the American secret services said that they were going to kill Trump when the guy actually ment that the GOP was (metaphorically) going to kill Trump for the thing he was sayings and that reminded me a bit like how David Than is saying about the Falun Gong, but without the propaganda sources, I could have explained myself better tho).

And don't worry, I have no idea what I'm talking about too, I just Google shit. He gives me bad vibes tho (Vibes, very scientific method of judgment as we all know), he reminds me of some right wing propagandist.

[–] Clear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

Hey I just found out that that guy is very much probably a paid propagandists, I don't have any direct sources to prove it but I can point to this video on why I think it is the case:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JaPzJKycxc

This is just the part 2, if you want the part 1 here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mQ8plzWl9g

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[–] remotelove@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 months ago

I feel better knowing that Chinese military partners get to feel the joy as well. (Curbs can be a bitch sometimes....)

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They suffer far more than anyone else from it. I mean just last week another rocket malfunctioned, lost a fuel tank that crashed close to a nearby village, enveloping homes in toxic gas. And spacecraft catastrophes are only the tiny tip if the tip of the iceberg.

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 90 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Real life Kerbal Space Program accident.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Someone messed up their staging... again.

Lives were lost, equipment destroyed, lessons has been learned-ish.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

But at least they already figured out how to land on the Mun and come back. They just need to go back to a previous save.

[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except the test facility was dangerously close to city resulting at minimum in an enormous amount of broken windows (clearly heard in the recorded videos) and no doubt damage to people associated with large volumes of windows breaking.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sounds pretty Kerbal to me.

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[–] RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 4 months ago (4 children)

The test stand is only about 5 km away from the city's downtown and less than a kilometer from a smaller village.

No NIMBY in The People's Republic (tm).

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago

None anymore at least

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I'm pretty sure it's ridiculously hard to stop government projects in your backyard there. The best you can do is refuse to sell your land.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

It won't matter if you do, unless you're a Party member. Example: the completion of the Three Gorges Dam was accompanied by forcing upwards of 30 million people to move. No compensation or new housing provided...just move somewhere else or you'll drown. Fascinating book based on his long term reporting (I think New York Times IIRC), "River Town" by Peter Hessler. He was there, he lived it.

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Chinese don't own the land, the government is. And even if they own it, local officials can always call in the bulldozers midnight.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago

To paraphrase Scott Manley; they got the rocket science down but need to work on their bolt science

(Fly safe)

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

oopsy doodle

-rocket clamper guy

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago

I think we've all been there

[–] Pappabosley@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hear Boeing ordered 6 of these rockets all ready

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Getting all my aerospace technology on Temu.

[–] ours@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Uh, I guess that's why many of the more reasonable static test rigs have the rocket flat on the ground with a hill on the pointy side just in case.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

That's for testing engines alone. Static fire is separate yes way further down the line when you have the rocket built and ready to fly

[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

That's a different type of test for a different type of rocket.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Plus some bay or gulf, relatively quiet, very close by the site helps. It's too bad the Chinese don't have any of those.

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[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unintended catastrophic disassembly due to structural failure.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Gotta admire the rocket's enthusiasm.

[–] bobc7@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Somebody just lost their job..

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 13 points 4 months ago

I saw this movie. Did it involve bringing kids to outer space and an AI robot that just wanted to help?

[–] rem26_art@fedia.io 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

well at least they know the rocket works now

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Until that mountain got in its way anyways

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Maoist rocket says, "Fuck your imperialist and capitalist clamps" and commits revolutionary suicide.

[–] scrion@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is anyone speaking Chinese able to tell me what the guy in the first scene of the video is crying out? The one where the rocket falls horizontally. I mean, I have a general idea what is being said there conceptually, but I'd love to get an actual, accurate translation.

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Basically it's two people saying "Is it falling? Wouldn't it explode? I'm recording it. Fuck the rocket is falling!"

From 5-8 seconds, the person seems to be saying争着争着中火大了, which doesn't mean anything to me, but it may be something of the local dialect.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Damn that rocket told everyone “fuck you” when it launched and then said “no seriously…fuck you” and then decided to meet its fiery demise.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."

Video of the accidental ascent showed the rocket rising several hundred meters into the sky before it crashed explosively into a mountain 1.5 km away from the test site.

The statement from Space Pioneer sought to downplay the incident, saying it had implemented safety measures before the test, and there were no casualties as a result of the accident.

Located in the Henan province in eastern China, alongside the Yellow River, Gongyi has a population of about 800,000 people.

Typically, during a static fire test, the mass of propellant on board a vehicle combined with strong clamps hold a rocket down.

This was a notable achievement, but the rocket's engines were provided by a Chinese state-operated firm, the Academy of Aerospace Liquid Propulsion Technology, rather than the private company.


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