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India Launches World's First Education Satellite
samfisher writes "New Scientist is reporting that India has launched EDUSAT, the world's first satellite exclusively dedicated to distance learning. EDUSAT will use the virtual classroom concept to offer education to children in remote villages, quality higher education to students in areas without access to good technical institutes, adult literacy programmes and training modules for teachers. The educational programmes can be viewed on any television set through a simple low-cost receiver costing about $65."
My little Slashdot brain is about to pop! Are we supposed to be for this or against it? On the one hand, education for all is a good thing. But on the other hand, it's India, and they took our jaoerbs!
Cheers,
IT
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Yeah - SURE it's just for education - it will be a spy satellite in disguise! Probably carrying some nukes too in case Pakistan gets out of line.
France has, what, 2 aircraft carriers, one of which lost it's screw on the maiden voyage? They did nothing in Rwanda, Haiti or the Sudan. Of course they don't have to spend money. They don't do anything.
/= capability of military /= linear scale of cost.
Germany? When was the last time Germany had a capable military. Hint...think swastika.
Canada. That would be the country just North of the U.S. which is protected by the U.S., wouldn't it?
China. Slave labor and pirated technology (or given by companies like Loral.)
India. What do they do outside their own borders?
Poland. Ditto
Italy. Ditto
Netherlands. Ditto
Watch their numbers go up if the U.S. cut things dramatically.
There's no Comanche prototypes? Really? I've seen 2. It was to be a what? scout helicopter? Now tech has developed so much that UAVs are practical. Must have been a great investment in tech and look at the savings between what would have been deployed and what actually is. Fantastic!
Numbers of troops