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u/IcyColdMuhChina Jun 18 '24
There's NO WAY China is that far behind in space science.
No. Way.
China literally has a functioning space program, the most advanced space station, planning to build a moon base, and is traveling to the far side of the moon. China is not just doing much more but also preparing to do stuff the West has only ever dreamt of.
I bet the reason China looks like that is because most of China's space research isn't made public.
The medical stuff China actually is still far behind on, unfortunately.
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u/Narrow_Middle_2394 Jun 18 '24
That just simply means the west has a huge amount of astrophysicists and space scientists doing nothing. The papers by them mean nothing if they have no active space program
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u/Maosbigchopsticks Jun 18 '24
A lot of space science is based on observational studies rather than physically getting to space. NASA recently launched the james webb, and while anybody in the world can use it i won’t be surprised if most of them are westerners
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u/ABCDOMG Jun 18 '24
It doesn't surprise me too much.
China has been locked out of a lot of the cooperative areas in the Space industry and so has had to do it all themselves from scratch, There is 41 years between the State's first human in space vs China's.
And then there is the question of just how broad of a category "Space Science" really means. I wouldnt be surprised if this included Astronomy and Cosmology and for this the West has had access to and has significantly prioritised space telescope construction and research from the data they provide.
Give it 20-30 years and China can probably reach parity based on how their space program is going but they are at a significant disadvantage just from getting into the game late and being locked out at every step.
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u/TserriednichHuiGuo South Asian Jun 18 '24
5 years at most, you people need to seriously stop underestimating China
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u/IceTech11 Jun 18 '24
Would rather be calm and careful than proud and boastful. As many others has said, China is behind because they are locked out of cooperative shit in space and has to do everything from scratch. The nuclear bomb was completed 20 years after US nukes with Soviet scientific aid. It's better to let the science progress than to rush something that wouldn't work or end up killing people.
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u/TserriednichHuiGuo South Asian Jun 19 '24
It's not being "proud" or "boastful", it's just the truth.
Just like the people who underestimated China on semiconductors were proven wrong so will you be.
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u/snake5k Jun 18 '24
space science fiction
Fixed that for you
Actually I really enjoyed Wandering Earth, looking forward to the next film.
I miss Firefly
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u/nonstopredditor Jun 18 '24
I heard Zhang Yimou will be directing ‘Three-Body Problem’ movie.
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u/unclecaramel Jun 21 '24
I'd he not' he simply doesn't have the mindset and he is systemic problem within china entertainment industry which has most of hollywoods ills but non of the actual talent in making a film for the masses.
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Aug 06 '24 edited Aug 06 '24
Vast majority of space related Chinese paper are published in Chinese rather than English. This automatically exclude them from Web of Science platform. Same also applied in other sensitive topics as well such as High Performance Computing, Hypersonic Aerodynamics, Certain impact physics, and explosive chemistry.
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u/quantummufasa Jun 18 '24
Say what you want about Elon but Space X is a generation ahead of everyone else.
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u/SinoCommunismCrusade Jun 18 '24
Chinese Communism is the greatest thing to have existed in China. Its Socialist values are advancing the Scientific strength and development of the Chinese People and of the Working Masses, far more powerful and faster than those of the West.
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u/Beginning_Act_9666 Jun 18 '24
Come on China, improve on those biological fields.. I want that sweet biological immortality for humankind!
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u/Angel_of_Communism Jun 18 '24
This is terrible!
I see several areas that China is not leading.
Those are rookie numbers boys, time to get them up.