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ISRO Successfully Launches Satellite Into Geostationary Orbit
vasanth writes: Indian Space Research Organization (Isro) on Thursday cleared all doubts on its cryogenic capabilities, successfully launching the Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D6), placing GSAT-6, a 2,117kg communication satellite in orbit. The GSLV D-6 is the second consecutive successful launch of the GSLV series with indigenous cryogenic upper stage. ISRO had on January 5, 2014 launched GSLV D-5, after a similar attempt failed in 2010. For the country, ISRO perfecting the cryogenic engine technology is crucial, as precious foreign exchange can be saved by launching communication satellites on its own. Currently ISRO flies its heavy communication satellites by European space agency Ariane. ISRO has already perfected its Polar Launching Vehicle for launching lighter satellites, with decades of success stories. It has already put 45 foreign satellites of 9 nations into orbit. ISRO is to put 9 satellites in space using the PSLV launcher for the United States in 2015-2016.
Welcome to the 1960s! Now work on municipal drinking water and sewer systems for your citizens instead of playing Space Cadet, mkay?
Give credit, where credit is due... Well done ISRO.
Because they have all those sacred cows in the roads.
the warm soft truth... talk about justice for all? what better choices to help us manage our greatest adversary? choose the punishment we would wish for ourselves round..
And if you can launch a satellite into geostationary, you can launch a MIRV'd ICBM against any really large country that might threaten you.
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As they say, after partition one country got its flag on the moon while the other has a moon on its flag.
Yes, developing their launch abilities is a great technical achievement and source of national pride. But does anyone seriously believe it's cheaper for India to develop this than to pay to launch a few communications satellites. Someone will no doubt say that "in the long run" it's cheaper, but I'd like to see numbers, because at this point, with the number of competitors, I don't believe it.
A communication satellite is not a vanity project, you ignorant KKK retard. Third world countries are not "trying to pay" Europeans, they pay them for services rendered by Europeans or anybody else , like it happens everywhere where business transactions happen but carry on with your idiotic rants bcoz you think some furriners hurt your sense of entitlement by taking "your" jerrbs ...
India stopped receiving any aid money since the 90s as a government becuase it was so tiny as to be useless but gave cause for many countries which have aid to get on a high horse and lecture them. Any aid money is being given by non-governmental SJW do-gooders to "charities" [i.e. shady SJW entities] . So fcuk off.
Citations ? Try googling or Wikipedia , ya lazy nutcase.
India stopped receiving aid in the 90s? Really?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-p...
I say cut off their aid money, if they've got so much laying around to spend on this.
Time to put the begging bowl away guys.
$93M in 2013 – that's not really much. And you know what? India has been asking us – the US and Britain – to stop. They don't want it. They don't need it. India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
It looks like they fulfilled the Requirements. Also, they pray to an elephant god, so that has to help.
There. Fixed that for you. Sort of. Hindus have several gods, only one of which is an elephant. There are also 150M+ Christians, and 125M+ Muslims living in India who don't pray to any Hindu gods.
UK / england and similar imperialist nations looted billions from the Indian subcontinent for 300 years and giving back tiny portions of it after 1960s onwards to feel better. Google for "white-man guilt" / "white mans burden".
True "aid" happens when you are giving your own hard-earned money to someone needy without selfish motives. Not when you robbed them blind when no one was looking and then throw a dollar to their begging bowl in public to get applause after few years. But please continue with snarky verbal jugglery to support your delusions, oh-so-clever first world citizen (or a toady from third world to first world countries, whatever).
Using high faulting words like "aid" does not masquerade the ugly facts about past crimes of "glorious" so called first world countries and their idiotic residents like you who now enjoy your current lifestyle due to past perversions like genocide of natives, slavery, colonialism but indulge in mental gymnastics so as not to have any feeling of guilt of how you arrived where you are now in the first place.
Bcoz if you really look into the past and learn how your own countries arrived where they are , then how could you look down your snooty noses are "third world" countries your ancestors robbed and mock them for lack of money, toilets , roads , windoze 10 tablets whatever , eh ?
Fcuk off troll. We will stop whatever whenever KKK cops stop shooting dark skinned people for no reason in "Worlds Most Advanced Cuntry (TM)" Thats what "white man" does when he goes to any country and then call it "civilization".
"Western Civilization ? That would be a good idea " - M K Gandhi.
> India was a fucking jungle before the white man colonized it
India had roughly 29% of world GDP before colonialism. It was 3% after colonialism ended. Without colonialism, India would have industrialized earlier, perhaps after Japan (which almost ended up in China's position with the Black Ship episode, but got its reprieve with US civil war).
> How far ahead has it gotten for the 60 years of independence?
Quite a bit actually. The development indices were quite stagnant while the British were in India. Every one of them shot up after they left. Obviously there is still ground to be covered.
> Have you stopped gang-raping your women already? No? How come?
Show me one statistic that says rape in India is higher per 100K, than it is in US or elsewhere. It isn't, even if you account for high under-reporting. The press had its fun highlighting anecdotes, but failed to make a scholarly case. Rape is a problem everywhere. The claim that India is a special case cannot *statistically* be made.
Delighted to hear of their success. The more parties that are up there, the more that space activities will become a pedestrian sort of thing that we need to consider in public budgets, instead of still sort of seeming to be treated like some 'luxury' item that can be cut whenever fat needs to be trimmed.
-Styopa
> There are also 150M+ Christians, and 125M+ Muslims living in India
You don't have the correct numbers. Its 177M Muslims and 27.8M Christians.
India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
That's what people see both because there's more of it around to see, and because the rich-poor divide is even wider in India than it is in other nations. While many of the descendants of the Raj continue to live opulent lifestyles surrounded by servants, whole swaths of the Indian population lives in a degree of squalor and dirt which you don't even see in most developed nations.
The fact that there's a lot of money in India doesn't stop large portions of its population from living in abject poverty.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
At least we don't stone the victim's for committing adultery.
Hahahahaha. There was no 'GDP' before the advent of modern economy from the West. Everyone was growing and eating their own food, including peasantry in India. Multiply the local crops by the huge population, you can get anything, but that's not an 'economy'.
Trade and industrial manufacturing on a large scale happened because of the West. Industrialization happened because technology was invented. In the West. Hell, even India's independence was invented by Indians educated in the West. In a world without the West, India would be where it was 5000 years ago -- in the jungle.
Show me one statistic that says rape in India is higher per 100K, than it is in US or elsewhere.
What 'statistic', if you look at 'statistics', India is lower than Sweden. Yeah, that Sweden, where a condom breaking during consensual sex is a 'rape'. In India rape isn't 'underreported', it is a part of the culture. Rape is not reported in the jungle, it is the way of life.
We should start stoning apostrophe pluralizers though.
How far ahead has it gotten for the 60 years of independence?
We're silently spreading to all the parts of the world and multiplying... FAST. You people are going to end up as a minority at the current demographics growth rate. Buckle Up.
> There was no 'GDP' before the advent of modern economy from the West.
You can say the same about History. That does not mean that we cannot look into the past beyond the origin of its current method.
There is an entire field of study, Quantitative Macroeconomic History, that estimates historical GDPs. Angus Madison did pioneering work in the area
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> Everyone was growing and eating their own food, including peasantry in India.
That's a rather naive understanding of history. Indians were trading with the West for millinea, with spices, gold and gem stones. That was the whole point behind the accidental, and even an unwanted discovery of Americas (seen as a block in the route for centuries) by Europe, because the Arabs blocked land trade routes.
Yes, everyone was growing their own food because shipping was not at all reliable for managing food on stormy sea lanes. But the ancient world was doing plenty of trading for lighter materials and luxuries.
> What 'statistic', if you look at 'statistics', India is lower than Sweden. Yeah, that Sweden, where a condom breaking during consensual sex is a 'rape'.
True. There is no uniform definition of rape, which makes comparisons difficult. Sweden definition is indeed absurd. And no, I am not arguing that it is better to be a woman in India than in Sweden. I am however arguing that the status of women in India is no different than women in countries with similar socio-economic development.
> In India rape isn't 'underreported', it is a part of the culture. Rape is not reported in the jungle, it is the way of life.
Hogwash. You are speaking from a superficial understanding based on press reports with little understanding of India. There is no codified cultural support for rape, apart from being a patriarchal society from still being an agrarian culture. If there was, Indians would not have raucously shut down the capital for weeks in response for a rape. That's the story. Not the rape. What is the strongest response of the US civil society for its worst rape case? The few rural bumpkins who rape in India are no more representative of India, than are gang bangers in ghettos representative of US.
Meh. The actual numbers aren't the point.
India really is quite wealthy. Yes, there's a lot of poverty. That's what most people seem to want to see for some reason.
That's what people see both because there's more of it around to see, and because the rich-poor divide is even wider in India than it is in other nations. While many of the descendants of the Raj continue to live opulent lifestyles surrounded by servants, whole swaths of the Indian population lives in a degree of squalor and dirt which you don't even see in most developed nations.
The fact that there's a lot of money in India doesn't stop large portions of its population from living in abject poverty.
Obvious man is obvious. But I wasn't referring to the wealth of selected individuals. India's GDP and the money the government collects in taxes make it a fairly wealthy country by almost any measure.
The "abject poverty" that many Indians report is a lie. Many people under report their income and admit to lower financial status because India is a socialist pinko commie country where poor people are given many freebies and subsidies all of which go poof if you admit to even modest income.
But there are lot of Westerners who take reports of abject poverty and tom-tom it. Some are smug people who want to compare themselves to some third world dude and feel better. Some are running "charities" which collect money from dumb westerners in the guise of helping these unfortunate people. Some are sound-byte and click hungry journalists who can't pass up a click-bait sob story of abject misery.
It also helps that Indians have always dressed and behaved to hide their real assets, openly flaunting your real wealth would get unwelcome attention from bandits, warlords or the local petty king.
We are not Americans who buy things we cannot afford on credit bcoz the wife and kids tell we need stuff so that we can keep up with the Joneses. If someone calls me "abjectly poor" I think "well , suits me fine".
> because the rich-poor divide is even wider in India than it is in other nations
India's Gini index is the same as that of Switzerland & Canada and better than US & UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://data.worldbank.org/indi...
Argue with numbers please, not your prejudices and cliches.
Little better than Ethiopia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ind...
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