15 Facts About China

[Irving]

I wasn't trashing your choice of thread title, you just copied the article title, which is what you're supposed to do.

[SA Friday]

Mach 10 = 7680 mi/hr.

The external tanks come off of a shuttle launch when traveling at aprox 17,440 mi/hr.

The SR-71 released speed is Mach 3.2, (Aprox 2460 mi/hr).

China is the only other country with GPS satellites in orbit.

China has a policy of letting their citizens immigrate to the USA. They also have a program to enforce loyality to China from those immigrants for generations after the immigration. Remember Los Alamos?

China is the number one country in the world at technology espionage.

China's Govt has forecasted and planned for a war with the USA estimated for 2030.

Bet none of those facts were in that list...

[Irving]

FACT: China enjoys taking long, candle light baths in our money.

[cowboykjohnson]

China enjoys taking long, candle light baths in our money.

and long walks on the beach?

[Irving]

I was originally going to say long walks on our economy, but it didn't make sense.

[cowboykjohnson]

They enjoy making woks and selling them to us to stimulate their economy!

[Hoosier]

I'm guessing the Mach 10 speeds referenced here happen when it's in the exosphere.

I didn't know China had it's own GPS, but I know that Japan has a localized one, Russia has a lower-resolution global system called GLONASS, and the EU Galileo project is still moving forward. Galileo should provide the best resolution yet, at least until the next generation NavStar birds are up.

Also differential GPS, essentially multiple GPS units in known locations on a vessel can produce accuracy under a foot.... I just found that out the other week.

[Ridge]

I'm guessing the Mach 10 speeds referenced here happen when it's in the exosphere.

That is pretty much the only time it would be possible to get a missile up to that kind of speed. And that would put it too close to the GPS satellites to be accurate. And it could not very well evade our radar from an altitude of 30 miles...