Chinese rocket gets zapped after launch.

How do you say "switch SCE to AUX" in Mandarin?

That is an obviously fake video since it is way too clear and sharp for the time. But Apollo 12 did suffer two lightning strikes. The first was actually cause by the vehicle itself due to static discharge. The crew didnt know what happened and for a period of time, during their ascent, the fuel cells and pumps were knocked offline due to the voltage discrepancy and the entire craft was running on its batteries. One guy remembered a single scenario from flight simulations during training and made the call that probably saved the crew and the mission.

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The Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager (EECOM) in Mission Control, John Aaron, remembered the telemetry failure pattern from an earlier test when a power loss caused a malfunction in the CSM signal conditioning electronics (SCE), which converted raw signals from instrumentation to data that could be displayed on Mission Control's consoles, and knew how to fix it.[65][67] Aaron made a call, "Flight, EECOM. Try SCE to Aux", to switch the SCE to a backup power supply. The switch was fairly obscure, and neither Flight Director Gerald Griffin, CAPCOM Gerald P. Carr, nor Conrad knew what it was; Bean, who as LMP was the spacecraft's engineer, knew where to find it and threw the switch, after which the telemetry came back online, revealing no significant malfunctions. Bean put the fuel cells back online, and the mission continued.

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Weird to see a rocket launch in a mountainous area instead of ocean side or out in a desert.

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This is a good short video explaining the irresponsibility of China’s space program. Basically during the Cold War China built its satellite/rocket launching sites in the mountains for secrecy. Not only did they not build them near the ocean but they also built them next to populated areas. Yes, debris fell on homes.

It's a new reality not knowing what is or isn't AI and not caring enough to try and figure out if it is or isn't.

So you’re saying that China’s southern launch facility is all AI now?