Physicist Admits Sending Space-Related Military Secrets To China 278
piemcfly writes "Chinese-born physicist Shu Quan-Sheng Monday pleaded guilty before a US court to violating the Arms Export Control Act by illegally exporting American military space know-how to China. The 68-year-old naturalized US citizen, pictured here on his company profile, admitted handing over the design of fueling systems between 2003 and 2007. Also, in 2003 he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer — Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing & Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.' This contained the design of liquid hydrogen tanks for space launch vehicles. He also admitted to a third charge of bribing Chinese officials to the tune of some 189,300 dollars for a French space technology firm."
Here's the FBI press release regarding Shu's plea.
Outsourcing (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Industrial espionage (Score:3, Funny)
I find it hard to believe that Chinamen ...
Also, Ethanol-fueled, 'Chinamen' is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian Americans, please.
Re:Outsourcing (Score:4, Funny)
Naa, for rocket science I'd outsource to India.
Re:Industrial espionage (Score:3, Funny)
Dude, the chinaman is not the issue here!
Re:Spare me (Score:5, Funny)
Chinaman is a direct translation of äåoeä. When in "Greater China", I get damned tired of constantly being called å-åoeä and éè±ä".
I agree, those slurs are tired and racist. Plus, it's also difficult to tell if someone is talking to you or screaming in agony.
Re:Industrial espionage (Score:4, Funny)
It's not exactly rocket science, as Werner Von Braun once said.
Re:Industrial espionage (Score:3, Funny)
He's probably as close as you could get to a possible Manchurian Candidate (one parent foreign, raised a large part of "formative" years on foreign soil), and yet I doubt you'll find anyone who would possibly think that way.
Unless you watch Fox News ;)
But China is America's friend! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Industrial espionage (Score:5, Funny)
I don't know, man. The name of that project sure indicates he was born for government work:
> the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Hydrogen Instrumentation Nomenclature
> Affairs Reacquisition Officer -- Onboard Liquid Supplies Using Special
> Distillation Resevoir of Oleaginous Oxygen Lysimetrification System'
He worked on that? Lol.
Zomg, look:
Commercial
Hydrogen
Instrumentation
Nomenclature
Affairs
Reacquisition
Officer --
Onboard
Liquid
Supplies
Using
Special
Distillation
Resevoir of
Oleaginous
Oxygen
Lysimetrification
System
Re:WTF?!..... (Score:3, Funny)
-10 years per count violation of AECA, and 5 years per count violation of FCPA?!?!?!?
Dude, it's not like he was selling pot or anything horrendous like that.