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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.
Don't forget the Hawaiian Tropic coco butter.
Are they gonna land? (at night, of course)
KY stock expected to soar on news of solar probe?
Seriously, it sucks unless you're in grade school
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?
liberare massarum ex ignorantia, clausa descendit molestie.
With Rosie O'Donnel and Spike Lee on board? (no modding unless you get the reference)
They'll go at night
Or at least in winter.
This will be costly and prove to be a complete waste of this planet's resources. India should stabilize their growth rate and feed their people.
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...
India is an odd place. It's clearly third world with tens of millions of starving Indians living in subhuman conditions, but it wants to explore space.
Little do they suspect...
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.
India will attempt to land a man on the sun. Thus becoming 2nd nation to land a man on the sun after the North Korea. This also prevent China from being the 2nd nation to land a man on the sun.
I hope they're planning on going at night!
Amazing. Over 50% of Indians--600 million people--are living in dire, crushing poverty. Yet, the Indian government sees examining the sun as one of its top priorities. 95% of Indians don't even have 24/7 running water [they have to pump the few hours when the pressure comes on and store it in local cisterns] and yet they have money for this sort of nonsense. Ridiculous.
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.
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.
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Do you have any freaking clue how utterly horribly and stupid it is?
STUPID!
DUMB!
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Obviously you don't realize how horrid it is, or you would cease forcing it on me.
nbcnews.com changed their site to suck so bad that I refuse to read the news there anymore.
BETA MIGHT ACTUALLY WORSE!
which means that if you continue with this misbegotten idiotic plan, it will be necessary to cease reading Slashdot.
This would sadden me since I have been reading it since around 1998 or so.
Please don't ruin it.
I'm begging you.
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.
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.
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
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.
:)
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?
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?
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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
let's re-visit this post in 2020.
if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Casteism
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.