China's space walk a fake?

[kandrathe]

No, it offers reasoned refutation of extraordinary claims most of which are ridiculous on their face. The video presents a spaghetti-on-the-wall barrage of accusations typical of whackjob hoax consipracy.

Actually, it was an intellectual scoff. More like someone saying, "Nuh uh". And I would ask myself does an astronomer have more to lose by going along with the status quo(debunking the proposition of forgery), or would this astronomer lose more face by also being skeptical? I think the questions raised are actually legitimate, and it may be unfortunate that the entire flight is under a cloud of suspicion due to the early release of news of the successful mission before it took off, and by the release of the transcripts of the mission before they were actually uttered.

Jester's second post offers a more reasoned approach, and still levels an adequate amount of skepticism. I still can keep an open mind to entertain a healthy skepticism, but mostly I don't really care too much one way or another. It would not surprise me that the Chinese government would try to "propagandize" their successful space mission. Even if it did go as planned, they might still publish the forgery for many reasons.