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Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-late-for-fireworks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "BBC News is reporting that the recent communications satellite launch in India has met with disaster. The satellite, designed to enhance India's telephone and communications network, was lost when the rocket carrying it veered off course and exploded. This is the second disappointment in recent launch attempts, coming just one day after the failed long-range ballistic missile test launch."

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  1. Re:You know, there are protocols. by LearnToSpell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *snort*

    What do you think the US reaction would be if NK asked if they could do an ICBM test?

    India and Pakistan having nukes is a fuck of a lot scarier to me than Korea having them.

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  2. hypocrite by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I would laugh, but then I'm American...

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  3. Re:disappointment? by orkysoft · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's not a book, it's a quote from a book. You should read your own sig again.

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  4. Re:well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    >These monitor the country's land and coastal waters

    Still we couldn't rescue people from Tsunami even when we had 4 hrs of time...Please don't give excuses.

    The biggest problem is we don't hire right people. We hire people based on their religion and caste rather than merit.

  5. Re:Indian Astronauts by Danga · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Hey dipshit, risk and chance are synonyms and the same thing in the context I used them. Just as a refresher I used "risk" and "chance" in the same sentence as synonyms (had to repeat that for you since you fail to understand what a synonym is / and/or what the definition of chance and risk are or you wouldn't have made such a stupid comment) "...it's not hard to wonder why someone would rather travel the world and live rather risk travelling to the moon with a much higher chance of not making it back."

    From the definition of chance from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/chance:

    "A risk or hazard; a gamble: took a chance that the ice would hold me."

    Note that that sentence could also be: "took a risk that the ice would hold me."

    As to part of my other sentence: "...not to mention having much less chance of dying."

    I was using chance in the same context as the previous sentence.

    Don't insult people smarter than you especially when you are wrong, you can put your dunce cap back on now.

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  6. Hardly suprising.. by Mark+Gillespie · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If it was built by Indians, i'm surpised it even made it off the launchpad...