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Chandrayaan-1 Successfully Reaches 100km Lunar Orbit
Matt_dk writes "Today, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface. This followed a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres conducted during the past three days by repeatedly firing the spacecraft's 440 Newton Liquid Engine.
The next major event of Chandrayaan-1 mission planned in the coming days is the release of Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from the spacecraft and its eventual hitting of the moon's surface."
the name? My guess? shan-DRAY-uh-ann
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and, btw.. I think this is FP too!
Now the moon is going to fall out of the sky.
And I JUST GOT CABLE!
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_rocket_motor_classification
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
So when America returns to the moon, they can look forward to a variety of tasty lunar takeout joints already established by the Indians and Chinese. The resulting outbreaks of explosive diarrhea can be put to good use in terraforming the moon.
can't wait for the bollywood industry to set their hindi love films in space.. (cue dancers)
Can anybody give me the pronunciation of "Chandrayaan" phonetically?
so did they take pix of the supposed apollo landing site to prove once and for all whether or not the moon landing was fake?
Now we can outsource all of Houston Mission Control's operations to India, it should be a real cost saving measure.
India will drop its flag on the moon to establish its presence, Nair said in an interview. This will make India the fourth country after the US, Russia, and Japan to have its flag on the moon.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/India_will_plant_flag_on_the_moon_ISRO_chief/articleshow/3620255.cms
With today's (on 8th Nov) successful manoeuvre, India becomes the fifth country to send a spacecraft to Moon. The other countries, which have sent spacecraft to Moon, are the United States, former Soviet Union, Japan and China. Besides, the European Space Agency (ESA), a consortium of 17 countries, has also sent a spacecraft to moon.
Source: http://www.hindu.com/nic/0061/release11.htm
. . . is now made out of green curry?
So, I know this is a recurring joke around here on Slashdot ... but you can actually demonstrate this fact by using the Lunar Laser Ranging thingy they installed.
That is, if you're willing to take the time to educate yourself on the hard science behind this.
Cheers
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
The Terrain Mapping Camera on board has a 5m resolution so even something as big as the LEM descent unit or the lunar rovers will only be 1 pixel in size.
Not enough to shut the hoaxers up. (Not that anything short of dumping them on the lunar surface will)
If you don't want to repeat the past, stop living in it.
When does it start taking high-res pics of the landing sites that we can rub in the faces of the conspiritards?
Not enough to shut the hoaxers up. (Not that anything short of dumping them on the lunar surface will)
With no helmet.
The MythBusters (yeah, yeah) demonstrated this on their Moon Hoax show. It was the last thing they did.
They went to an observatory and had the person show that pointing the laser away from the moon produced no return signal whereas when they pointed the laser at a specific spot on the moon, they did get a signal.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Oh wait, wrong Indians. ;)
yea but it'd be the difference between a pixel that's the same shade/color as the background vs a pixel that's not.
"I am taking one small step for man, and I am taking one giant step for mankind, excepting the lower castes. Thank you please come again."
well, it was not exactly an obama or a'brother' that went to the moon, right, eh?
atleast Indian's leadership has been open for every strata of its society/caste in the mere 50 years of its independence. You guys took 300 years to get one obama in. so please shut your uninformed mouth.
They went to an observatory and had the person show that pointing the laser away from the moon produced no return signal whereas when they pointed the laser at a specific spot on the moon, they did get a signal.
Pfff. That's just the Martians they paid to sit on the moon and respond to lasers.
Bouncing a beam off of the lunar laser ranger demonstrates only that we (or more likely the underlings working for the alien overlords known as the Illuminati) planted the device on the moon. It does not prove that it was placed there during the supposed "Apollo" mission nor does it prove that man has ever escaped Earth's orbit or that the moon is in fact real rather than a sophisticated projection on the outside of our fishbowl. There's actually a documentary where OJ Simpson demonstrates how a similar hoax could be pulled off for a manned Mars landing.
(May the gods help us if anyone interprets the above as anything other than a goofy attempt at humor.)
Seriously, though, good for the Indians. Considering the $$ that the US has shot into space (development, production, etc), and the continued global interest in space exploration, this could be a very valuable market for them.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
At any of the Apollo sites. The astronauts did quite a few kilometres of driving around - and nearly rolled the rover once or twice. :)
you had me at #!
Obama was elected in 2081?
Wow.
Mind you it's lucky the Americans haven't set up base permanently, otherwise none of the astronauts who visited would be able to get back into their spaceships and come back. They'd all be too obese to fit through the hatches of their lunar modules from eating the high quality cuisine the USA has given the world, supersized burgers and fries washed down with gallon buckets of coca-cola... ;-)
Are you looking for the phrase "impact on"? Maybe "collision with"? Or even "hit on"? There are a plethora of choices...
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Now, I dislike the Moon landing conspiracy nutters as much as the next guy, but the retroreflector thing isn't going to convince them. But then again nothing really will...
Since unmanned Soviet landers had similar laser ranging thingies, that hardly proves that men have landed on the moon.
Support Right To Repair Legislation.
And no moon.
The term 'untouchable' is banned in India. The current Chief Justice of India's Supreme Court is an 'untouchable'. The Chief Minister (== governor) of Uttar Pradesh (the most populous state, and one with the most number of representatives in parliament) is an 'untouchable' lady. The president before the last one, was an untouchable. Doesnt prove anything, but things are improving.
What do you think they're aiming the impact at?! 'Accidental' destruction of the evidence... or... is it?
Maybe he's coming back... from the future!
"It's not you Barack -- it's your kids! Something's got to be done about your kids!"
Please, you could totally fake that.
(runs away plugging ears shouting "LA LA LA LA")
Gee, I hope they don't miss. Ohh, wouldn't that be embarrassing.
The Native Americans have almost enough money from their casinos to launch a mission! I think it's pretty funny that there are whites that gamble away everything they have at those casinos up to and including their mortgages...
"Indian steal white man's land"
The party's over
So that's what Ignignokt and Err have been up to all this time. psst...don't let Boston know...they'll freak out!
[Large tentacled alien enters space station, glass doors slide open] ...."
Shopkeeper "Hello sir how may I be helping you"
Queeg [vicious tone] "My name is queeg you puss filled mud breeder, show me your leader"
Shopkeeper "Sorry sir but the manager is not being in right now, would you like some jelly dogs, they are on special"
Queeg "hmm, they look good, give me two"
[a few minutes later alien leaves space station]
Shopkeeper [calls out] "thank you be coming again"
[Alien stops outside glass doors looks at food in tentacles]
Queeg "what the
nothing can stop, the QUAD-LASER!
Go go Gadget Nailgun!
So, I know this is a recurring joke around here on Slashdot ... but you can actually demonstrate this fact by using the Lunar Laser Ranging thingy they installed.
That is, if you're willing to take the time to educate yourself on the hard science behind this.
Cheers
It still does not prove that Man was on moon. Man doesnt have to be on moon to place reflectors on the surface
So India's leadership has been open to every class huh?
Why don't we ask the untouchables that people like you pretend don't exist anymore how accepted they feel.
Until then, why don't you stop lying to yourself and the audience, and shut YOUR uniformed mouth.
Have YOU asked our 'untouchables'? Our constitution banned such discrimination right when it was written. Infact, the scholar who prepared ours was infact from the community you call 'untouchables'. So there.
Show many how many years after your american independence your blacks got freedom, voting rights, womens voting rights, etc etc legally. Just a couple of years back I heard on your radio that a judge asked a cop not to treat blacks like animals. That's where you guys are now, and you have the nerve to lecture to me about our society?
Thanks but no thanks.
Every dollar that the US Space Program has spent was done so on EARTH... you bastard! NASA isn't perfect but it's not like they fill up the space shuttle with cash and launch it into space. All the money is spent on Earth and most of it goes into the pockets of American citizens.
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Not that I think it was faked, but seriously.. when they type in coordinates X,Y into their black box supposedly a laser beam reflects off the moon and lights up their receptors, when just as easily there could be no laser at all and it's just programmed to display a spike when you type in the right coordinates. Unless you put together the laser and equipment independently from NASA it proves nothing.
All the money is spent on Earth and most of it goes into the pockets of American citizens.
And all of it came from the pockets of American citizens too.
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
The Terrain Mapping Camera on board has a 5m resolution so even something as big as the LEM descent unit or the lunar rovers will only be 1 pixel in size.
Big deal, I can do that:
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Don't take this as a criticism of NASA (I'll do that some other time) but you might not know what spending money really means.
When NASA pays $10 for some fuel and then burns that fuel, $10 of wealth has been destroyed -- effectively the same thing as sending $10 away from the earth.
Don't fall for the Broken Window puzzle.
And??
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Let's just hope this Indian craft doesn't go plunging into a lunar gully just because it didn't want to hit some sacred cow that was jumping over the moon.
When NASA pays $10 for some fuel and then burns that fuel, $10 of wealth has been destroyed -- effectively the same thing as sending $10 away from the earth.
How is that? Someone on Earth was paid that $10 to make the fuel. Seems to me money changed hands and it stayed right here on Earth.
Remember they went to an observatory. NASA doesn't have any observatories on Earth. If you're at that stage of the conspiracy where the observatory is in on the scam, then Mythbusters itself isn't sufficiently independent of NASA.
Just wanted to remind people that stealing money from people and then giving it back to them is not actually a net gain, even if it's better than stealing it and not giving it back.
If you mod me Overrated, you are admitting that you have no penis.
They probably would have wasted it on liquor and hookers, anyways.
We're talking about spaceflight. Not taxation. Whatever... I'm just ranting too.
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Hate crimes do take place against the disadvantaged groups in rural areas from time to time. The difference is that the educated middle class (numbering 300 million people from many walks of life) generally takes a dim view on caste intolerance in the country. I myself am middle class, and the product of an intercaste marriage (mother's family is a "high-caste" Brahmin though poor refugees from East Pakistan, father's family is a Dalit "untouchable" though relatively wealthy) and there never were any problems from anybody. Plus, India outlaws any discrimination against disadvantaged peoples, and has 50% affirmative action in schools, colleges and jobs for all disadvantaged peoples.
l'Homme n'est Rien l'Oeuvre Tout: Gustave Flaubert to George Sand
You realize, of course, that your argument could equally well be used to justify hiring 100's of people to torch rain forests? After all, the money is creating jobs here on Earth. The only costs are natural resources and failing to fund more worthy causes.
The Native Americans have almost enough money from their casinos to launch a mission! I think it's pretty funny that there are whites that gamble away everything they have at those casinos up to and including their mortgages...
"Indian steal white man's land"
Native Americans are Americans. The Space Mission that is being discussed here is by India.
Native Americans are also called Indians because when Christopher Columbus began his journey to find an alternate route to south asia (India), he hit reached America and assuming he reached his destiniation called them indians. This is how the name stuck.
It's scary the lengths the government will go to in order to cover up their moon landing hoax.
They successfully did with 2008 technology what we did with 1967 technology.
Well, at least they are doing it!
India is going to be sending another mission to the Moon in 2011, this time putting a rover on the surface.
When you eat a 5 dollar hamburger you are turning that money into SHIT!! lol. Superb job, everyone, on keeping things logical.
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See how powerful my argument is?! It can justify anything!
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chandrayaan => chandra = moon, yaan = vehicle (well, approximately)
I thought that a human had to step foot on the 'new found' soil and PLANT a flag and do some kinda ritual chant to claim 'new found' lands. Someone must have changed the rules. If I recall, America has a spacecraft leaving our solar system, if it 'drops a flag' just before, and sometime after leaving our solar system, does that mean that America can lay claim to the solar system and then the Universe ? Not to mention our Mars rovers. They have flags on them, I believe. So America can claim Mars too ? Seeing as how Canada is supposed to be building a fleet of robotic ocean floor crawlers to lay claim to the oceans surrounding the Arctic as it melts away, I reckon they can lay claim to it in this way as well ? They say they can. This is getting silly.
If it has tires or tits, it will give you problems.
Explosive diarrhea in a spacesuit, sounds like an horror movie I wouldn't want to see.
Anything you do can get you slashdotted, including nothing.
While you might have a point, you totally fail bringing it across.
It's not like there were blacks in any positions that even begin to compare to those the AC listed above in those days...
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
Lunokhod 2 reflector array is in the location different from the Apollo ones. The whole point of the experiment is to point the beam at the known location - which coincides with the claimed location of a given Apollo landing - and receive the signal. If you do, then someone or something installed the equipment there, and it couldn't be Lunokhod, because it installed its equipment elsewhere (and you can check where it did that, too).
Right, but the point is that if the unmanned Lunokhod probes could put retroreflector arrays up then the US could have sent probes, instead of astronauts, to place their retroreflectors.
I am thinking I am on the moon? I am not knowing. I am new to the area.
Most people are mostly good most of the time.
To put this in perspective. The next president of US is half black.. and...and --Doesn't prove anything but things are improving--
The most obvious problem is travel, when you get an n^2 name problem.
I know that Spain is España, but when I'm in Germany or Belgium, what's Spain called?
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Castes are a form of socio-economic collusion in India since 12th century. Hinduism's caste system is a religious-based system of separating groups and keeping one class (the Brahmins) over everyone else.
In America there is no system in place today that forces people to remain separate or keeps one class subservient to another. If you were born the son of a street sweeper, but excelled, you could become a doctor or lawyer or some celebrity or entrepreneur - and at the same time you would be fully accepted by your peers.
Not so in India. The caste system freezes everyone in place. It is extremely difficult - almost impossible - for someone from the lowest caste to rise in education and social status.
A Dalit would never be allowed to marry into one of the higher castes and would never be accepted as an equal. And for a Dalit to make it into medical school or become a member of high society in India is very rare indeed. Only by escaping from the grasp of Hinduism do they have much of a chance....
And only 1% of marriages in India are Inter-Caste or Inter-Religious.
Brahmins are people residing in India who have created caste/religion system in India 3000 years ago, which assigns each person a "fixed" place in the social hierarchy.
As per this system Brahmins by birth are privileged to stay "on top" of social and economic hierarchy.
Currently they predominantly practice this ancient caste system and deprive and deny other Indians of social and economic benefits.
Currently the population of Brahmins in India is only 5%.
But,
95% of the jobs in "Business" are occupied by Brahmins.
95% of the positions in "Judiciary" are occupied by Brahmins.
95% of the time India is "Ruled" by Brahmins after independence.
50% of the positions in government "Administration" are occupied by Brahmins.
How to balance this situation?
Solution is to restrict all Brahmins to "live and work" in only one state in India.