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   From: jyanjyan@rocketmail.com   
      
   Just trying to think on the safe side. Even though the Chinese may   
   have the very first, state sponsored, extraterrestrial space craft for   
   space flight, don't they have to get every thing in order, first,   
   before they decide to go out of the stratosphere?   
      
   Don't they have to catalog and map every object they can that could   
   possibly collide with their space craft and dent or disable them?   
   Otherwise, their shiny new space craft could end up a twisted, mangled   
   piece of wreckage lying at the bottom of an ocean somewhere.   
      
   Let's say, just to speculate, they have recently come out of the work   
   shed with their shiny new space craft. Now comes a period of labor   
   where they list and catalog everything so that they don't fly into it.   
   That would take considerable time, but to get out of this universe,   
   wouldn't they have to catalog everything out there, and then beyond to   
   as far out as where ever it is they're planning to go?   
      
   Isn' that part of good seamanship? Making the maps to sail by?   
      
   If they actually have got a space ship, it is going to take them   
   awhile to get enough cataloged, or mapped out, to allow them to even   
   go and visit Jupiter or Saturn, isn't it?   
      
   I'm not a sailor, of course, but it seems good seamanship starts with   
   good charts, and good charts start with good knowledge. This could   
   take a very long time to get accomplished, couldn't it!   
      
   They would need a fleet of ships working on it, just to get it   
   started. Oh well. Just some thoughts on the subject. I guess   
   everything needs to start somewhere.   
      
   John Ayres   
      
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