Wth does "quietly tested" even mean lol
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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I think that they didn't announce it at the time of. We learned of the test only from a recent statement, several weeks after the mission took place.
Yep. Why boast about stuff when you can simply experiment and learn.
that western media didn't pick it up
A relative worked in construction in China for a few years.
At one time, an undergoing project was almost finished and, being a westerner, my relative was expecting to see politicians arrive with the usual fanfare, inaugurate the shit out of everything, have the entire media circus around, etc.
Well, nothing happened.
Higher ups were informed, the work was finished, deemed ready for use. A few workers, out of their own volition, set off some fireworks to celebrate a work well done, cleaned everything after and went home.
The next day the road was being used.
For something like a road it is a bit silly to make a big ceremony out of it anyway. It is not like we have never built one of those before.
I agree. Can I quote you the next time some two-cents politian insists in inauguring the smallest of public work?
Everything’s quiet in outer space