One tiny point that nagged me a bit -- why would the prisoners have to be physically fit enough to qualify as astronauts? From the point of view of the Chinese government, they're just going up there to die, after all, and so long as *some* of them survived long enough for execution by space, the experiment would be a success.
Course, that's bureaucracy for you -- the same question nags me regarding why they swab the injection site of prisoners getting the death sentence. You'd think a staph infection would be the least of their problems...
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Date: 21 Apr 2008 09:56 (UTC)One tiny point that nagged me a bit -- why would the prisoners have to be physically fit enough to qualify as astronauts? From the point of view of the Chinese government, they're just going up there to die, after all, and so long as *some* of them survived long enough for execution by space, the experiment would be a success.
Course, that's bureaucracy for you -- the same question nags me regarding why they swab the injection site of prisoners getting the death sentence. You'd think a staph infection would be the least of their problems...
Well, anyway -- great story! Woohoo!