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India Plans Mission To Probe Sun By 2020
An anonymous reader writes "India is planning a mission to probe the Sun before 2020. The nation launched a Moon mission a few years ago and sent a Mars mission late last year. From the article: 'Indian Space Research Organization has lined up over a dozen missions, including its first probe on the Sun, Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan said on Friday. Though, the mission to probe the Sun was already on the cards, the agency now has a clear picture of its plan and had put a timeframe within which it hoped to undertake it, Radhakrishnan said, while addressing students at a private University here. He said the "Aditya" mission to the Sun had been planned between 2017 and 2020.'"
In related news - mission to feed the poor in India still dependent on foreign aid.
Are they gonna land? (at night, of course)
And don't trust the Galactics. Some of them are sneaky buggers!
i assume this is the first step in a long term solution for over population
Maybe they should start probing the constant raping going on. What a fucked up country.
How are they to withstand the heat and gravity sending a probe to the sun? Surely this is just to get close to take closeup pictures. But we have Helios for that. And will the probe be named the Icarus 1?
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They'll go at night
Or at least in winter.
Plus I hear the rent there is horrendous.
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With all of the problems that exist in India, I don't see how they are going to get it done. Even if they do, at what ultimate cost? I think of all those who will suffer as a result of a government fools errand.
It's a valid question? We can already evaluate and test for radiation and sun activity with the observing satellites we have up there already? We're better off checking Venus and Mercury for more data. In the end the probe will eventually wear out but at least we got more info then a straight shot into the sun. Dumb.
but it's a dry heat, and the traffic is better...
Not really...
a.) India always does it cheaper.
b.) The capability will go towards providing commercial space services. Its a money maker, rather than a drain. India is already doing this.
c.) The problem India has now is not so much as not having money. It does not have non-corrupt institutions to properly distribute the resources. They will improve as education improves in subsequent generations who will then elect better politicians, demand cleaner systems and more effectively fight for their rights. Projects like these inspire students.
Vice President Quayle declared that the US should be the first nation to complete a manned space to the Sun.
Im playing KSP, and I know it is damn hard to get to the sun^W^Wkerbol, even with infinite fuel enabled!
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They'll name it Icarus, of course. It's just what you do when sending anything towards the sun.
I hope they're planning on going at night!
But that's silly!
It's high noon over here when it's nighttime over there! Psh. Indians. Don't they know anything about science? No wonder their engineers suck.
They know better than that. The actual plans call for them to fly all the way around and land on the dark side of the sun.
When America was deeply involved in the space race, black people were 2nd class citizens, their churches were being bombed & their protests were set upon by police dogs and the infant mortality rate wasn't much better than that of present-day India.
Perhaps they shouldn't have cars, airplanes, or computers until they raise their population up to standards you find acceptable.
theirs is a man mission.
All the jokes aside about them going at night or landing on the dark side of the sun,
If they do go, just keep your ears ready to hear this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b5ueiALdB0 :)
North Korea Lands First Ever Man On The Sun
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LOL!
That's a fascinating read.
A 4 hour filight to the sun(at night, to avoid being burned up!), landed and collected sunspot samples to bring back for the Supreme Leader, and back home by 9:00 P.M. in bed for school the next day...all by a 17 year old boy/astronaut.
Truly remarkable!
The best our youth(USA) can do is cost their fathers $80,000 by posting crap on facebook...sad, really. ;-)
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I just hope they put their top guys on this and figure out that they need to go at night!
The runcible rhythm of ravenous raisins rolled through the rookery rambling and raving.
During their concert they flew their black space ship into the sun.
Why bother with the sun... we know most of what we need to know about the Sun already... what will India of all places be able to learn more than what NASA already knows...
This is just a waste of money.
I take it was hundreds of millions of blacks, or a very high proportion of the US population, right? You know that it was nowhere near those figures. No, India's problems are at least one order of magnitude more serious than those of the US in the 60s. Indulging in this me-too space program nonsense is making India look like a country with a humongous inferiority complex, resorting to a grossly immoral and pathetic approach to keep it in check.
Otherwise they would have to install toilets - a technology that India has yet to master.
... you guys just have to make crude jokes ?
I mean, India has all the rights that all the other nations (whether it be USA or Russia) have to send their craft to Sun, Moon, Mars or wherever they want to send them to.
Or just because it's India that you guys think they'll somehow fucked up ?
The truth is everybody has had hick-ups in their own space missions - NASA included.
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How do you go from "planning a probe" to "examining the sun is one of our top priorities"? Unless literally everything they do is their top priority?
The lazy, stupid, and (rarely unfortunate) apply for and get aid so they do not become homeless, feed their children and have time to watch television and plan crimes.
America's 'poor' people have:
- Housing that meets building codes
- Electricity
- Hot and cold water, shower, bathtub
- Food
- Most have internet and cable tv
America's poor are well off compared to many other countries.
c.) The problem [India | United States | China etc etc etc] has now is not so much as not having money. It does not have non-corrupt institutions to properly distribute the resources. They will improve as education improves in subsequent generations who will then elect better politicians, demand cleaner systems and more effectively fight for their rights. Projects like these inspire students.
FTFY. Also, the part about fixing it being reality is the funniest bit of satire I've read in a long time
:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's what the Star Trigger was.
They better arrive at night otherwise .... molten metal...
Just because your superpower is on the decline and no longer has the capability to do a manned space mission, you don't need to piss on the rising ones for taking their first steps. 40 years from now when they're mining asteroids and outsourcing their cheap crap to the USA, they might come back and rub your nose in it.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
As much as we love to hate, the US is far less corrupt in basically every way measurable than India and China, and India makes China look like Northern Europe.
We don't believe in radical loony monotheistic religions from the middle east -- we're Christians.
A Third-World country of religious crazies who have nuclear weapons announcing that they're pushing ahead with advanced missile - oops, did I say that? I mean "payload delivery system" development.
What's not to like?
It's like saying Now that i'm poor , i wont read a book , I want listen to music .. I will dig a hole untill i'm rich .
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Discussions about developing countries eventually end up retarded on
People demanding the government distribute resources is the PROBLEM, not the solution. We tried communism about 10 times in the last 100 years, it does not work. Markets remain the most efficient and on-target way to "distribute resources".
Im also not sure what you think "corruption" means if youre placing the US, China, and India all in the same category.
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I hope they will do the needful to make sure probe can kindly revert with gathered data.
On serious note, what does it mean that "mission would be around Earth"? Are we talking about some small sattelite orbiting Earth, which happens to have lenses directed at Sun? And this is "Mission to Probe Sun"? In such case, Hubble telescope was a mission to probe thousands of galaxies and millions of starts...
that is all.
Before you wrap up in the flag and sing about how much better your country is than theirs it may be worth noticing that their economy is growing and they don't have nearly half their elected officials trying to sabotage it so they can blame it on the half that is currently in charge.
Development of space technology is the way to the military hegemony.
We have our own version of Icarus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatayu
The infant mortality was for the entire country, not just the black population. And that was just one example. Subsidized medical care was non-existent & the overall poverty rate was nearly 25%.
So what if India's problems are bigger? The US derived a lot of benefits from the space race and so will India.
let's re-visit this post in 2020.
if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
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they need to feed their people first instead of this dumbass re-inventing of the wheel...
i mean no clean water and wasting billions on this foolishness...
In any Islamic country, being raped is effectively a crime. Here's why.
Under Shariah law, anybody who claims to be raped has to produce 4 witnesses. This is from an incident in Mohammed's life where his wife Aisha (yeah, the 6 year old that he married, and thighed when she was 9) was accused of adultery. Mohammed had his so called 'revelations from allah' and demanded to know if there were 4 witnesses to it. Since there weren't, Aisha was exonerated.
So far so good, and one would think that this would be an example of giving an adultery suspect a benefit of the doubt. However, in all schools of Islamic jurisprudence, the benefit of the doubt is given to rapists, whenever rape happens. So if a woman is raped, she has to produce 4 witnesses to prove it. Since no rapist is stupid enough to rape in the presence of 4 witnesses, no woman would ever report a rape if it didn't result, say, in her getting pregnant.
To add insult to injury, if that is not enough, in the event that a woman does get pregnant in cases of rape, she would face sentencing under Islamic law. In countries like Saudi Arabia, she'd be stoned, while in more 'moderate' Islamic countries, she'd be jailed. A good number of women in jails in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Muslim empire are there on adultery grounds: in fact, they are rape victims who got pregnant.
There is nothing uniquely Saudi about this, and absolutely nothing American, but there is everything Islamic about this 'tradition'
-- Smashmouth Now, If I were the Sun, I'd be upset by an alien probe.
yes the toilet sciences will definitely improve with a trip to sun.
Let's not lump everything under communism which has many extra connotations. At most, what you are talking about is socialism. In India, almost everyone agrees that the country needs more education and that no one should have to starve (US poor are a different kind of poor, nothing like Indian poor). The problem is getting the resources to the most needy without most of it leaking out on the way there. Contrast US medicare. Even with some fraud, it is extremely efficient (in terms of money reaching recipients). India does not have such systems yet.
Besides, you don't get to tell people of a democratic country, to have capitalism or socialism (which is what US did in its dictator driven satellite states, which were not yet ready for capitalism). They will choose. If the bulk of the population does not have entrepreneurial opportunity (lack of education to think systematically, assess risk, exploit capital channels etc), capitalism is meaningless and it will simply become code for feudalism.
The question in India is - HOW. The question in US often is - WHETHER. Both are good questions in their respective contexts.
US has less need for socialistic safeguards, while India still does (but less now, than 60 years ago). What India and China are at least theoretically doing is proper. First use socialism to get the basics right, get everyone operational and then peel it away slowly once the people can compete. Its the way we raise babies. We are not Spartans.
When criticizing India or China, remember that these have been away from foreign domination only relatively recently (60 yrs), compared to US and Europe (several centuries). They are progressing nicely.
Thank you blithering idiot.
Meanwhile India is a spiraling shithole, and Indian parasites are fleeing in droves to a country near you.
> spiraling shithole
Since its independence from colonial rule, the country made advances in nearly every index. Go ahead, prove me wrong by finding charts to the contrary.
> Indian parasites
Parasites? Indian diaspora are quite productive and successful. In US, they have the highest per-capita incomes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01...
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org...
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/29/...
Today, an Indian-American runs Microsoft, an Indian-American is Miss USA and Indian-Americans reign spelling bee.
Of course, facts don't matter to you - a vanilla racist bigot.
Correction: Miss America, not Miss USA