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Indian Satellite Lost in Launch Explosion
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."
Maybe it's just that part of the world. Must be some odd gravitational flux or something.
Just a reminder - this was a product of the best of their best. The absolute cream of their crop has managed to go zero for two (as I recall, this isn't the first rocket they a'sploded.)
At least they didn't spend a ton of money on this one, money that could have went towards feeding the 400M people there that live on a dollar a day or perhaps creating an infrastructure for their newly developing 'industrial and hard goods to provide for their domestic growth' industry, or farms to grow enough food for everybody, or something like that.
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
*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.
Haida Manga
I would laugh, but then I'm American...
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I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
... and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why this is a happy story for me, not a disappointing one. We're a smidgen further away than we might have otherwise been from yet another ego-driven, chest-thumping nation having reliable ICBMs (reference: USA). If that means the same technology fails to send a communications satellite into orbit, too bad for the poor bastards. I won't shed a tear there.
>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.
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.
Hey, there is only one Return and it's not of the King, it's of the Jedi.
If it was built by Indians, i'm surpised it even made it off the launchpad...