美国无人驾驶太空飞机返回地球

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VOA Chinese, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101203-US-SPACECRAFT-111273239.html

My comment:
(a) The X-37B was launched last April.
(b) I did not comprehend the last paragraph: "和大型航空飞机不同的是，X-37B号在飞机后面有两个稳定装置，而不是一个尾翼。"

The only news report today that talks about that is:

Unmanned US spacecraft returns after 7-month trip. Associated Press, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MYSTERY_SPACECRAFT?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
("It has two angled tail fins rather than a single vertical stabilizer")

Translation of the VOA Chinese is horrible (that is why often I can not understand Chinese translation, ever since I was in Taiwan).

aircraft fairing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_fairing

(c) 美军太空飞机X-37B返回地面. BBC Chinese, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/12/101203_space_plane.shtml
("机尾装有一个用来变轨的大发动机")

My comment: There is no need to read the rest.


---------------------Separately
(1) 中国熄火碰壁 美日韩亮舰提神. VOA Chinese, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101203-Nokor-111257999.html
("在美、日、韩三方外长12月6号即将在美国首都华盛顿举行会谈切磋棒打北韩对策之际，中国表示关注")

My comment:
(a) "棒打"?!
(b) 日美展开历年来最大规模联合军演. BBC Chinese, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/12/101203_japan_us_drill.shtml
("日本媒体称，美日联合演习的规模是美韩军演的六倍")

Otehr than that, there is no need to read this BBC report.
(2) 中印边界问题一面谈判一面剑拔弩张. VOA Chinese, Dec. 2, 2010.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20101202_CHINA-INDIA-BORDER-111185799.html

My comment:
(a) The report cites

中印邊界談判　印度以戰逼和. 東方日報 (香港), Nov. 30, 2010.
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20101130/00182_001.html
(b) 東方報業集團
http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh/%E6%9D%B1%E6%96%B9%E5%A0%B1%E6%A5%AD%E9%9B%86%E5%9C%98
(1969年由馬惜珍兄弟創辦《東方日報》，後來一直由家族後人掌控

(3) India's navy chief indicates the first indigenous nuclear submarine--INS Arihant or the "destroyer of enemies"--will be ready in a year (late 2011 or early 2012).

My comment: That does not mean the sub can fire a nuclear-tipped missile then, as China has proved.

(4) Kim So-hyun, Seoul doubts N.K. ‘underwater nuke facility.’ Korea Herald, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.koreaherald.com/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20101203000603

(5) 最新维基解密电文批评英国驻阿富汗部队. BBC Chinese, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/world/2010/12/101203_wikileaks_britain_afghanistan.shtml
("而在2008年的另一份电报则提到，美国大使馆官员与阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊都认为在没有美军的协防下，英军根本没有能力保卫赫尔曼德省")

(6) Iran furious at Star of David discovery on Google Maps. Sydney Morning Herald, Dec. 3, 2010.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/iran-furious-at-star-of-david-discovery-on-google-maps-20101203-18iue.html
("The building was constructed by Israeli engineers before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when the two countries were much closer. The Jerusalem Post wondered whether the symbol of Judaism had been added by 'Israeli prankster architects'")

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