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India Debating Manned Space Flight
alphakappa writes "India's moon mission and other space programs have been covered before on Slashdot. India is now debating sending a manned space mission and has acknowledged it's technological preparedness to do so in the next 6-7 years if given the go-ahead. The issues being debated before starting work on the mission include cost-benefit and other space priorities. (These missions also play host to international experiments) What does the general slashdot crowd think of these space plans?"
and it is a future of hordes of Indian 'cab-drivers' piloting the equivalent of SpaceShip One back and forth between earth and orbit .... not to mention they will be the first to open a 'Kwik-e-mart' aboard the ISS. Thank you, please come again!
Sorry, this is a government project. Every attempt to decrease costs results in their doubling. You'll have to adjust your figures somewhat, but in the end it shouldn't be significant (as governments caluculate things).
... more easily controlled.
Since it's a government project, only the highest quality will be acceptable. These jobs must be outsourced to the People's Rebublic of China, where quality is
In response, the Germany will attack Poland and the French will surrender to Belgium.
sigs, as if you care.
I think this is a great development also.
Making sure that the vastness of space does not end up W.A.S.P. is very important.
Very little of the Earth's population is white, even fewer of any religon at all, yet nearly all astronauts have come from this group. (Tokenism notwithstanding).
The greater variety of people to enter space, the greater amount to survive any threatening situation. I say, Go India
If weapons were the central issue - why the Bush gov is not invading North Korea - where its believed they have the weapons material and means to parcel it near the US.
Accept it - this WAR was just for oil and nothing else.
No Sig for you.!
There was a great joke once on Johnny Carson. "A cure for dysintary, literacy, and indoor plumbing. Name three things India needs more than nuclear weapons." India is buying SU-27s fighters, renting an Oscar Class SSGN, and working on building it's own aircraft carrier. All of which are more of a waste of money than space travel. I love the old we should spend the money on the problems on earth first line. What a load. As to the US not being an example. Also a crock that could only come from someone that has never been two a third world nation. Just for the record the US's Space program is under 1% of the budget. Maybe just maybe if India puts more effort into space they will put a little less effort into nukes, aircraft carriers, and subs. Come on India I dare you, you backward 3rd world nation try and put a person in to orbit, try to go to the moon, I bet you can't match what the US did over 40 years ago. What the EU still has not done on it's own yet. I bite my thumb at thee.
And I hope all your crews come back safe, and that you reach a little farther.
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I mean, c'mon, you have a Slashdot OD, would it be too much to get your opinions from someplace other than a late night talk show?
What effing good would eradicating illiteracy do to India if they're ruled by the Chinese, as in Tibet? It's strawman to begin with, because the Indians are debating whether or not to put a man on the moon, unlike Kennedy, who declared we would (to one up the CCCP, among other things).
Besides, to address your silly lil' list:
dysentery : India's already got the largest first class drug industry in the world; they're not the ones who are out of anthrax and flu vaccines
literacy : They're not the ones teaching creationism (intelligent design) in school
Please outline again how IRAQ had anything to do with 9/11? Oh wait, you can't. But yet another incompetent conservative that won't let the actual facts of a situation guide his actions. The cognitive dissonance of the right is nothing short of sad.
Well, as I said you idiot, I HAVE BEEN THERE. And, no, maybe not all of the people there are poor, but a majority of them are. You want to know how hard it was to even get a phone call out of there to the US? How about how long it took my lungs to recover from an 11-day trip? How about my plane being delayed for hours because of poor visibility...due to dense pollution in Mumbai?
You try to pin me as this teeny-bopper cyber dork, but you're the ignorant one. I've seen a good portion of the country FIRST HAND, as I'm sure you certainly have not. Much of it was beautiful, but what had been touched by human hands had been virtually destroyed.