The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could, in theory, lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound.
At this velocity, even the longest intercontinental flights could take just one or two hours while consuming less fuel compared with conventional jet engines.
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You need to draw the line between a country’s government and some of its brightest minds. This is a scientific breakthrough, and should be celebrated as such. Period.
I trust no articles from SCMP.
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The research has been published. Everybody in the world is free to replicate it. The CCP is no more or less capable of doing so, just because it happened on their turf.
It has been published, but a staggering number of scientific “papers” coming out of China are turning out to be complete fabrications.
Correct, so it should be independently reviewed and recreated to validate the claims. Crying wolf just because there were issues before wouldn’t be fair.
The trick is that they’re literally spamming papers at this point.
So you don’t base any of your decisions on past experiences?
The trick is that they’re literally spamming papers at this point.
It has been published, but a staggering number of scientific “papers” coming out of China are turning out to be complete fabrications.
Most of these inventions will be used by military first, in China as also in the USA, which isn’t an atom better in this and other aspect. It’s precisely the USA which use more investment in weapons and defense as any other country and not precisely for humanity reasons.
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Are we? The current wave of book bans would say different.
It must be those two gay penguins’ fault
LOL