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Indian Moon Mission Launched
hackerdownunder writes "India's maiden lunar mission (Chandrayaan-1) got off to a flying start today. Describing the launch as 'perfect and precise,' the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair, said that it would be 14 days before the satellite would enter into lunar orbit.
Chandrayaan carries eleven payloads: five designed and developed in India, three from the European Space Agency, one from Bulgaria and two from NASA."
India is not / no longer part of the third world.
I agree with everything you said, excepted the quote above. India *is* part of the Third World in all the definitions I know:
- Not aligned with either the West or East in Cold War
- Not a country with high HDI (Human Development Index)
- Is a "developing country"
But maybe you have another definition for it?
ilex paraguariensis for all
Cut down version of the above:
They made it easier for companies to outsource to india and invested in education so they had something to sell(labour).
Not that old chestnut again.
We've had 6 manned missions and a few probes to the moon, all commissioned by a handful of governments. Our oceans are being surveyed constantly, by both satellites and survey ships (including submersibles) sponsored by governments, research establishments and commercial operators alike.
The moon missions just generate more publicity (ignoring the outliers like Jacques Cousteau).
BJP govt instilled the country with some pride.
BJP is a fascist party with deep seated animosity towards anyone who is not an hindu. During the BJP regime, they and their supporting parties unleashed some of the worst atrocities against minorities in India.
To state that they have somehow instilled pride in the Indians is like saying that the Nazi party instilled pride in the Germans. That is to say that we (Indians) don't need that kind of pride. Thank you very much.
Also your claim that the moon shot will address poverty comes from the same school of thought that believes in the discredited "trickle down" theory of development which essentially says that if you continue to pamper the rich that the money will somehow magically reach the poor.
We know how well that has turned out. The wage disparity between the rich and the poor has never been more stark. The poor are poorer (google farmer suicides in India) and the rich are richer (google new Indian billionaires).
I am fully in support of the Indian space programme and the wonderful work that ISRO is doing, but let us not kid ourselves - the moon mission has nothing whatsoever to do with mitigating poverty.
you have failed to create social welfare state. europe has succeeded.
you sound like a holistic economist, even a neocon republican. those days are at an end.
this recent crisis have shown us how dangerous unwatched, ungoverned, unregulated capitalism can be. entire world economy brought down by a handful of rogue megacorporations juggling funds in united states.
that wont happen again.
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Launch video 1/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZbGXrxR4U4 2/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S3GeL8AjEQ 3/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEg-uWjPDFI 4/4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9SpPJvHck
I guess you didn't get the clue the first time round and/or are too lazy to do research.
Crude oil (theories otherwise and evidence for non-organic alternatives notwithstanding) comes from organic materials, i.e. fossil fuels. And whist it's possibly that one of Saturn's moons does have life and might supposedly have reserves of fossil fuels, there's zero evidence for that. What you're thinking of is Titan and its methane seas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_geological_features_on_Titan
Yes, methane on Earth generally comes from organic sources (e.g. cows), but it occurs otherwise.
Disclaimer: I'm not an expert on fuels by any means; by all means correct me where appropriate.