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China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky (tech.slashdot.org)
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[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 47 points 5 months ago (1 children)

because it apparently didn't go up as high as it was supposed to, the test was ultimately declared unsuccessful.

Poor Chinese. They have yet to learn so much from Elon (hint: declare everything a success. NO. MATTER. WHAT.)

[–] Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 40 points 5 months ago

One of my favorite Star Trek quotes of all time: “If the invasion had been considered a defeat Gowron would’ve been assassinated by now. He simply declared victory, and went home.”