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India's Chandrayaan Lands Impact Probe On the Moon
yaksha writes to tell us that the Indian Space probe, Chandrayaan, has become only the fourth nation to land a probe on the Moon. The 35-kg Moon Impact Probe touched down in what officials are describing as a "perfect operation." "Developed by ISRO's Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the primary objective of MIP is to demonstrate the technologies required for landing a probe at the desired location on the moon. The probe will help qualify some of the technologies related to future soft landing missions. This apart, scientific exploration of the moon at close distance is also intended using MIP."
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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
So how long before there is a bollywood musical on this?
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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre of Thiruvananthapuram
Run away, they're Klingons!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
I didn't realize that Chandrayaan was a nation. Congratulations to them!
I don't know if "landing" is the right term for it, exactly. That doesn't seem fair to people and devices that actually... don't splat when they "land."
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
the Indian Space probe, Chandrayaan has become only the fourth nation to land a probe on the Moon
It also must be the smallest nation to ever accomplish such a feat!
Thanks to the War on Drugs, it's easier to buy meth than it is to buy cold medicine!
Is it a lander or did it impact?
When I book a flight, I want to know the landing time, not the impact time.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
One thing I wonder about is why to spend all this resources to send an impact probe? I mean, why don't you send a probe which can do more and just in case fails and crashes, there you go, there is your impact probe.
Indian officials have announced the first 7-11 on the Moon will open in early 2009.
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Am I the only person who worries that when the Indians start getting their act together instead of subsidizing other countries with cheap intellectual talent that we're done for?
Wonderful day. Proud to be an Indian.
India can put a probe in orbit around the moon and hit it with an impacter. they also have nukes. do i smell another cold war style arms race? i wonder how this makes China and Pakistan feel?
not saying, or hoping, it goes that route. however if you can get stuff to space and get stuff to the moon you can surely hit anything on the earth. India is now another player in that crowd.
ahh.. American Relevance in the new century fades a little more. Just hope we don't go kicking and screaming.
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Get some images from another country of the original American landing site? They have the probe in orbit, as does China. It would finally put to rest (or verify) the conspiracy theories.
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Why are they doing this again?
I get trying to inspire people but does this really help the people of India in any way?
is a story fretting about nasa funding shortfalls under the obama administration
so the larger take home message is that yes, while the american space program is but a shadow of its former glory, the global space race is alive and well, with china with its space walks and india with its moon landings, rising in prominence. the eu, australia, japan, brazil... lots of nations are in the game, no longer is it a cold war chest thumping exercise between the ussr and the usa
well, its still a tribal chest thumping exercise, but there are a lot more chest thumpers ;-)
and you can fret that such a low brow motivation should fund such a high brow cause, but personally, i think in this case, the ends justify the means. with all of our problems we have in the world, its amazing we can get any space funding at all. and if we harness nationalistic pride to propel mankind into space, so be it. i don't care how we get there, as long as we get there. the higher and nobler causes can only be served by getting us into space
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
India/Chandrayaan has become only the fourth nation to STAGE a landing a probe on the Moon...
Come on...you know that nothing has ever been on the moon but sunlight
Twin or more? ITA
Apache/Spring/La
It might be nice if they had bothered with an official web site that contained any decent, up-to-date information about the mission. The "News" section is basically just the home page with nothing timely, and the latest entry on the "Press Releases" page is four days old.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."--Feynman
The Chandrayaan Constitution was twittered!
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
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"the ... probe ... has become only the fourth nation to land a probe..."
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An Indian success story and the standards comments will be
1. India is poor, why does it need to do this?
2. cliche 7-11 jokes
3. cliche call center jokes
4. comment of quality of Indian programmers.
5. comment on social problem completely irrelevant to the story.
Seriously - why is it so hard to just appreciate somebody and say something that is actually relevant to the story?
Wish I'd saved a mod point earlier.
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I'll have me a big, fat, juicy, steak!!!
They want to talk about all the shiny neat new tech stuff, but they'll mod you down for pointing out that the money was a waste and could have been spent somewhere else. If I had the points, I would have modded you up.
I read Slashdot for the headlines, because the headlines, unlike the articles, are usually original and never duplicated
Oh $hit..while you were on phone for IT support, your home just got foreclosed
Good day Sir, this is Patrick only.
What do you need IT support for?
To start your foreclosure paperwork?
Go India!
There they go littering up the Moon again. It's bad enough that it's a 'fur sure dust catcher, but now it's becoming everybody's waste receptacle as well. What is the rest of the galaxy to think of us?
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The Indian Anal Probe?
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Here are the first images from MIP.. Image 1 Image 2
I've seen a few moons I wouldn't mind probing.
doot doooooo doo-doo-doo.
The place used to be spelled "Trivandrum" when written in English, since no one can pronounce the other name- Not even Indians from outside Kerala. .Britishers called it Trivandrum when it was capital of the Travancore (Thiruvithamcoor) dynasty .Now it is the capital of Kerala state and they decided to "keralize" the name again.
Malayalam is like many other Indo-European languages, you can join a couple of words together to get a new word. Thiru - means holy, Anantha - is infinite, is also a name in Indian myth, puram- place. So in all the name means "Holy Anantha's land" - it was so called because there is a big temple there
Found these... thought they might be of interest.
ISRO Press Release
http://www.isro.org/pressrelease/Nov14_2008.htm
Pictures fro Chandrayaan Moon Impact Probe
http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm
The Hindu Article (with diagrams of ISRO Chandrayaan probe)
http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/15/stories/2008111550580100.htm
I'd be curious to know how what percentage of their staff are PR guys (probably way less than NASA), rather than engineers etc...
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I read a whole bunch of "wisecracks" and trolls about India and stereotypical bigoted comments about 7-11 and call centers, etc.
It is sad that geeks such as some on Slashdot choose to try and divide and disrespect as opposed to integrate and celebrate what is surely a quantum leap in what technology and engineering has enabled India/mankind to do.
When technology levels the playing ground, it becomes imperative for those whose hegemony is threatened change from their jingoism to a more mellifluous tune.
As an American I offer you and your country congratulations and welcome to the Moon Club! It is indeed a feat to be proud of.
http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/15/stories/2008111550580100.htm would be a better source for the story.
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landing on the Moon, they can "pull a columbus" and say, "****I**** discovered **YOU**" to the life forms.
Until then, we may have to stick with Dell, or with "Welcome to McDonalds. May I take your order?" I'll be inclined to ask, "What crater are you located at?"...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
flat, that is NOT a good landing.... Even autogyrating helos with crash meshing under the seat might allow survival but, a bad enough one might impart damage to the spinal column, just slight enough to permit walking, and then WHAM! Turn/twist in the wrong number of degrees, or lift a too-heavy load for an instant...
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
I read a whole bunch of "wisecracks" and trolls about India and stereotypical bigoted comments about 7-11 and call centers, etc.
It is sad that geeks such as some on Slashdot choose to try and divide and disrespect
What's wrong with humor?
This is a moment to be appreciated and savored, but like all powerful moments there is room for humor. Where you see division I only see making fun of stereotypes that are being shattered by this very story - in a way a kind of slow farewell to them.
When we as a species have lost our ability for humor, or the ability to take a bit of ribbing and laugh at ourselves and others at times - well then bring in the cockroach masters, because are are hardly good for anything but foodstuff or powering giant computational engines with our body heat.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm
Watch Out!!
77 million usd is all this program cost India. Many a dot com companies get purchased for more money than that... Proud to be an Indian...
WHAT? Where did you get that bit? Anyone who can read any indic script can read it perfectly. Latin characters though...
The probe's population is entirely microbial, mods.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
I wonder if any of the probe's development was outsourced?
German, a legacy language of Europe, has that 'long-word' syndrome. As if they had to pay extra for spaces. And, Holymuddafugginchrist, they have some reallylonggoddamnwords in German.
_Sprocket_ used the idiom "[to] wash one's hands of it", which is a double meaning because we were already discussing the process of hand-washing.
Just so there's no confusion.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
Helloo! Haven't you figured it out yet? Where have you been?
China and India are PART of the conspiracy.
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I too agree!
But I would just like to know why, that when I now call my Dell Support person, there is now a 2.5 second delay in replies. ....
And... and I am in INDIA!
It seems ISRO is going to send a rover next to the moon in 2012 on the Chandrayaan-II probe.
:-)
IMHO, ISRO should conduct something like the Lunar X-Prize, where independent groups can build their own rovers loaded with instruments.
Not that ISRO lacks the required expertise ('course) but such a competition would generate considerable interest among students in the whole nation and rope in more participation from Indian Universities. USA's DARPA Grand Challenge is an excellent example.
I really hope the aims for Chandrayaan-II are very high, so that the Indian tech industry will have to work very hard to accomplish them all. Besides one doesn't send a rover to another celestial body quite often. So this rover should be really high tech!
Its not really that hard - it's pronounced
Tee-Ru-Va-Nun-Ta-Poo-Rum (the T's are soft, just like the Spanish T)
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Given the population density issues facing India, It looks like they are probably moving forward with plans to colonize the moon first. From that point forward all of your Support Center calls will be answered by moon people.