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Indian Mars Mission Beams Back First Photographs
astroengine writes India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) got straight to work as it closed in on Martian orbit on Tuesday — it began taking photographs of the Red Planet and its atmosphere and surface as it slowed down to reach its ultimate destination. After a two day wait, those first images are slowly trickling onto the Internet.
Anyone who doesn't find space exploration utterly wondrous, awesome and interesting is a simpleton. You people will be culled from the genetic base soon enough and due purely to your own idiocy.
Slashdot commenters have gone downhill. Congrats to ISRO, Indians, and humanity as a whole. Let's not let the bigots hold us down.
An article with exactly one image from India's mission, and a slide show of false color images from NASA that most slashdotters think were from MOM.
I expected at least a few more images hinted at by the summary. It will be interesting if they can capture some of the more controversial spots to provide independent confirmation of what NASA has been telling conspiracy buffs for the past few years.
To the Indian government though, I suggest the next project be here on planet earth:
That is, to make public toilets as easily available as every other space power.
1) China is a space power. Not exactly know for the quality & quantity of rural public toilets.
2) If everyone waited to solve every domestic issue before becoming a space power, noone would have developed rockets yet. I think you would be astonished by the poverty that existed in Appalachia or other rural isolated areas in the US when their space program started. Ditto for Europe (portugal / greece) and Russia (almost everywhere).
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
And here is the problem in a nutshell. Some women are pictured because they achieved something significant, and some idiot immediately derails the conversation with comments on how attractive they are.
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
You don't get it. This is not a scientific achievement, but an engineering one.
It cost a few cents per Indian - I think they can afford that. Congratulations India!
Yes, Slashdot is known to complain that male scientists are unattractive whenever a picture is posted Totally the same.
So does Indian Mars look anything like American Mars?
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