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Abundant phosphorus expected for possible life in Enceladus’s ocean Skip to Barotrauma, please

Another cold launch on the sea: When he said he "found the platform" days ago, I was totally unimpressed. Until I just got the news on wechat that the rocket had launched. Add: launch video from CCTV's official weibo: https://weibo.com/2656274875/M9g4aeITX From Spacelens(云上天镜): https://weibo.com/7604660608/M9kAEqYUz (this one the closest one: they put the camera on the platform) and from People's Daily: https://weibo.com/2803301701/M9kI2tWLr Visually I think it's better to launch during the day. Although cold launch on the sea looks pretty 'violent' whatever during the day or night

Parts of CZ-5 Y6 rocket have arrived in Wenchang. Currently here's two CZ-5 rockets in there: one for the Mengtian Module(to be precise this is a CZ-5B) and one for something I don't know. I guess it probably will be something heavy satellite based on the DFH-5 satellite platform. The previous one was based on DFH-5, called Shijian-20. And the last 'breaking news' it made was Saw something I ignored: Spacety(天仪研究院) put a pair of de-orbit sail on the cubit satellite, and make it took just 33 days to get from 400km down to under 200km completely off the orbit. The yellow one is the sails.

Basically similar, maybe a bit dirtier This 'trick' of using English was taught to us privately by one of my teachers from Texas You see, how interesting human language is!

Yes, "nine tones and six modes". 5 tones more than mandarin. But honestly, I can't tell you how difference between them because it's really hard to describe the feeling in the spoken language. But Cantonese intonation is an interesting thing. For example "Wishing you good wealth and prosperity(我恭喜你发财)!" becomes a curse word when the intonation and stress are changed. And only if the other person is a Cantonese speaker will you know how dirty you are swearing The strangest thing I have ever met: me a Chinese, a Indian and a Pakistani group mates, in somewhere England, using standard Cantonese to discuss something.

Unlike the tea bags which is £3 you can get fifty bags. Tea leaves can brew more than once. Some expensive varieties can even be drunk whole day long. And in China we don't drink the first brew: it's for washing the leaves. Of course, the thing about mirroring over is "mum, fun fact, tea bags only can brew once..."

First time cook a dinner by myself for my parents: Yuxiang shredded pork, Lettuce with Oyster Sauce (way more better than salad, trust me), Steamed Pork Ribs, Scrambled eggs with cucumber, mushroom soup, and a pot of rice Dad: I can't say what you learned living alone in England, but you are a good cook!

ha, Oct. 5 today, the 'little space shuttle' has been in orbit for two months since August

What's the joke was saying? The German says "my English is rubbish" = his English definitely better than yours The reason why I would 'offend German' that there are some 'retroflex consonants' they may sometimes skip (and of course it's possible that I don't have much contact with Germans). This would be very much like Mandarin with a Cantonese accent. One is the retroflex consonants that the people can't roll their tongue, and one can't tell the difference about the word need voiced velar nasal or not. For example, China, the pinyin for Chinese is zhōng guó. Any pinyin with 'h' such as zh,ch,sh all need you roll your tongue up, and any pinyin ending with 'g', well that's easy, how you pronounce 'sing' and 'finger', just do it like that. But in Cantonese accent, guys would pronounce 'zhōng guó' as 'zōn guó': lots of parts are missing!

More photos: Now we can see the orange rectangle next to the fire extinguisher is an emergency breathing apparatus. The tag on it means: Caution! High-pressure chlorine bottle inside! Well... well done man Comments in Weibo that the picture is a night view of the city of Chengdu (where the famous Giant Panda Conservation Base is located). Hello, Greece & Turkey It doesn't officially say what it is, is it a tomato seedling? Qinghai Lake and Longyangxia Dam Add: someone said that this is Amazon River. Somewhere near Santarem in Brazil Leichow Peninsula and Hainan island. Technically the crew can see the launches in Wenchang Launch Center. (If camera can slightly to the left and you can see Hong Kong and where I am hahaha) (Via. CMSA's offical Weibo)

Ah, I suddenly remembered a novel: The Wandering Earth. It is by the same author as the novel Three Body. If I remember correctly, I think I've seen both of them in English version of these novel in the UK. It's okay if you can't find the novel, there is a film adaptation of the novel. And its available on Netflix with English subtitles Apart from war and pestilence, if this colonization is the "last hope" for this civilization, there are still many things that can destroy them all at once on the way.

It’s from India (whisper But after all, thanks for your service Mangalyaan. We’ll miss you!

Meanwhile somewhere of space, a civilization that has developed beyond our imagination, who can spy on our internet: My guess is that when a civilization is advanced enough to colonize an alien planet, unless the virus or whatever in the place it colonizes is strong enough, incredibly strong, then only a particularly bloody war between the civilization itself or a civilization similar to it would make extinction a possibility.

Currently the clearest photo in Wentian module: On the left is the Sleeping Bay 1, at the top of Liuyang is the Sleeping Bay 2, and on the right is 3. What is behind her should be the airlock. The tag on the green bag is "Wentian Payload Adapter Type I Active Terminal Unit 01" "Remember the neat and tidy look of the house you have just moved into."

Yes, it's more than an accent. What it sounds like is totally different between Cantonese and Mandarin. But nearly all the dialects in China all can use Chinese characters to read by what dialect you master (Except for Tibetan, Uyghur, Mongolian and some minority languages in the south-western mountains). Hong Kong, Macau and, of course, Taiwan, they use Traditional Chinese. But Simplified and Traditional Chinese are basically the "literal version" of "you'll have no problem understanding American English to live in the UK". Traditional Chinese for me is more of a font that my brain can automatically switch to when reading translated Japanese manga, and something I would write a bit of when my dad told me to practice calligraphy: A 'tool' that is a little complicated and not easy to use for me. In literal level, the different with Traditional and Simplified Chinese are little bit similar to wanna/ want a and goona /going to. Add: I think why the Cantonese speaker are more easier to understand Mandarin speakers say than opposite way is because of the "cultural influence issues": two or three decades ago, the song and movie from HK were really popular in Mainland. All of them have Traditional Chinese subtitles. So when people watch too many of these traditional subtitles, they convert them into another font that can be switched within the brain at any time. Now the situation is reversed, mainland Chinese songs and films are actually quite popular with them, so it creates a situation like this. For myself, well, what HK and Macau people saying, the Cantonese, is from a city called "Guangzhou". 'Coincidentally', my parents, as well as other elders, are all from Guangzhou. When I was a child, the fact that my family always communicated in Cantonese caused me to speak rubbish Mandarin, which led to my kindergarten teacher asking my parents not to communicate with me in Cantonese as much as possible. However, the situation changed dramatically when I started primary school: all the Chinese teachers who taught me were from the north-east of China. "Yeah, I know", one of friends of my dad who is from Beijing said to my dad, "why your son's accent suddenly became to a native Northeastern when he goes to school?"

It is not particularly difficult for Cantonese speakers to understand what Mandarin speakers are saying, what is difficult is for Mandarin speakers to understand what Cantonese speakers are saying. Especially if the Cantonese speaker is trying to speak Mandarin, but his Mandarin isn't that standard (From what I know of English, it's probably a bit similar to a German trying to use English to communicate with you and his English accent is a bit... you know). However, at worst here's still easy to communicate through Chinese characters. Add: I search when were the third echelon astronauts were recruited, and the answer is the recruitment starts in 2017. The selection is completed and training begins in 2020, so logically, now training should be finished or at least 'almost'. 3 years of training is enough for anyone to master another language using the same characters. (The third echelon has 7 pilots, 7 engineers and 4 payload experts. 17 men and 1 woman)

More details: "A total of 12 to 14 reserve astronauts will be selected, including 7 to 8 space pilots and a total of 5 to 6 space flight engineers and payload specialists, of whom about 2 will be payload specialists. Space pilots are selected from among active pilots of the army, navy and air force; space flight engineers are selected from among scientific research and engineering technicians engaged in aerospace engineering and related fields; and payload specialists are selected from among scientific researchers engaged in space science research and application-related fields." (From Takungpao) As for the fields in which the experts are needed, "the basic requirements for the selection of load specialists in Macau are to have worked for at least three years in fields related to medicine, biology, psychology, physics and chemistry, mechanical or electrical engineering, astronomy, etc., to have a doctorate and to be in good health, and to be between 30 and 45 years of age." (From CCTV News) Physical requirements: -Height of 162-175cm for men and 160-175cm for women -Healthy, non-allergic, no previous medical or family history that may affect flight service -Naked eye vision of not less than 0.1 in both eyes, corrected vision of not less than 0.8, no color blindness -Psychologically healthy Candidate institutes: (i) 11 local universities; (ii) five Government research and development (R&D) centres (including Automotive Platforms and Application Systems R&D Centre, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute, Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel, Logistics and Supply Chain MultiTech R&D Centre, and Nano and Advanced Materials Institute) and Hong Kong Productivity Council; (iii) research institutions/ companies at the Hong Kong Science Park and Cyberport; and (iv) Government departments and the Hospital Authority. (From Government of HK SAR Press Releases) And most important thing: these experts from Hong Kong and Macau really needs to practice speak Mandarin properly. However, there are quite a few Chinese astronauts and people in CNSA from Northeast China. As the type of accent that is most likely to "take one's accent away" in China, this should not be difficult. You're a bit worse off than me, you'll probably have suffered for a month to two months or so until the Shenzhou-15 crew shifts both of them to the truss at end of two modules.

I think the construction of buildings on the seabed as being in a sense a bit like space stations in LEO. Apart from the fact that oxygen production is no longer a concern, we have to worry about how to produce food, how to dispose of waste, where the energy will come from, and the air and water pressure if the project reaches a certain depth on the sea floor and people go out of the buildings if they need. I watched a French documentary on deep sea divers, The Deep Med today. They needed to inhale nitrogen because of the air pressure and water pressure. The change in the divers' voices when they inhale nitrogen is really interesting hahahaha

CNSA has started the selection of a new echelon, the fourth echelon of astronauts. CNSA will select two payload specialists from Hongkong and Macau. Pretty good, it's time to use all these PhDs and experts that have been trained these years. But barring that, no offence to them, I've been to Macau and I'm honestly quite surprised that this small place could select a qualified candidate.

A more detailed video about Wentian module shifted to starboard side. When it docked with Tianhe, the entire station shakes a little bit I am a "symmetrical object lover", so I may have to suffer for a month: Picture via: https://weibo.com/u/7394207363?layerid=4819402710846240

Something about recent CNSA's science progress: Scientists found a new kind of mineral from the samples from Chang'e 5 taken back to Earth. They named it "Changesite-(Y) (嫦娥石)". Surprising for me is this new mineral has wiki link now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changesite–(Y). More than that, Chang’E-5 samples reveal high water content in lunar minerals, Impact-driven disproportionation origin of nanophase iron particles in Chang’e-5 lunar soil sample and Surface microstructures of lunar soil returned by Chang’e-5 mission reveal an intermediate stage in space weathering process. The last two have a pay wall. So, the finding of the first one from Nature is: "...The low-velocity impacts experienced by this sample often occur on the surface of objects in the main asteroid belt and can reveal weathering patterns in atmospheric free bodies far from the Sun (the main asteroid belt). The whole process is entirely dominated by the impact event and does not include other space weathering factors (e.g. from the solar wind) ...Therefore, for predictions of water on the lunar surface, regions that are difficult to bombard with micrometeorites should also be considered. Low velocity impact events can be caused not only by low velocity travelling micrometeoroids, but also by debris impacts from high velocity impacts. This implies that low velocity impact events are more frequent than high velocity impacts, or that the effects of large impacts are mainly caused by low velocity impacts." And the last one is: "The FeO nanocrystals and layered rim microstructures found in this work suggest that the iron peridotite studied may be in an intermediate stage of thermal decomposition, supporting the idea that stepwise reduction of iron peridotite occurred under solar weathering. In addition, chemical elemental and morphological analyses reveal that the surfaces of pyroxene and feldspar do not contain amorphous layers and volatile exotic elements (e.g. sulphur, chlorine, etc.), and the interior of the samples show no traces of solar flare passage, suggesting that the studied samples may have been in an intermediate to early stage of solar weathering." Zhurong rover helps the scientist wrote this: Layered subsurface in Utopia Basin of Mars revealed by Zhurong rover radar. Utopia Planitia probably used to have an ancient ocean. Zhurong found water-bearing minerals in slabby crustal rocks near it's landing zone. And I found something not so that recently but is indeed interesting: United Nations/China Cooperation on the Utilization of the China Space Station (CSS): Selected Experiment Projects to be executed on board the CSS for the 1st Cycle. If everything goes well already, I think some of them were already mounted in the CSS now. In addition to China, they come from several countries' different universities, private space companies and research institutions including Switzerland, Poland, Germany, India, Russia, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Spain, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Kenya. (One of the projects is from Tsinghua University and University of Tokyo, WOW) Add: An article about the several ground tests for the Zhurong rover. Although it's Chinese but I think it's really interesting. Let Chrome do something for you

The TEL toy doesn't look like the actual one, I mean the size of wheels:

Hanging out with friend. While I waited for her to arrive, I went to some toy shop in the mall where we were meeting. Seems like CNSA authorized something pretty lovely CSS, in lovely version (￥89 is for the dolls) Normal CZ-5 and lovely CZ-5 CZ-6, but it seems to have fallen down A astronaut with spacesuit, Zhurong Rover and Tianzhou cargo ship I might have bought it all back if I hadn't run out of shelves in my room.

And because of the Mars dust storm season and solar transit between Earth and Mars, here's actually two plans for it: To be on the safe side, I will choose the second one.

And another news about sky but not connected to CNSA: China's first domestic trunk airliner, C919, has obtained the aircraft type certificate issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China. This means that now it has the conditions to deliver commercial flights to airlines. Although the production certificate issued to the aircraft factory and the airworthiness certificate of each aircraft were not issued on the same day, there was no hard obstacle to the commercial operation of C919. Good news is, the CCAR25 in China is a "pixel level replica" (thank you America, really) of the FAR25 in the US, so if the design is completed in strict accordance with the requirements in the regulations, it is no problem in theory to pass the technical approval of the EU and the US Airworthiness Bureau. However, many regulations of the US FAR25 has not been updated for more than ten years, which leads to many recent technologies on C919 not being able to find appropriate regulations or exemption clauses to approve. So, it may take several years to see it at airports outside of China. (C919, is an aircraft whose positioning and target are the same as those of Airbus 320neo and Boeing B737 MAX8)