UK Seeks Stronger Partnership In Space Technology With India 47
tanujt writes "David Willett, British minister for Universities and Sciences has called for a stronger partnership between Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and UK's space program. As of now, Willetts invited ISRO to partner the UK in its TechDemoSat program. TechDemoSat is an industry-led technology demonstration satellite which aims to provide a low-Earth-orbit test bed to help demonstrate the technical maturity and commercial viability of innovative new space technology. TK Alex, director of ISRO Satellite Centre, invited the UK to partner India in training space scientists through academic exchanges between the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing and leading UK universities. This follows US President Obama's recent visit to India, wherein he signaled ending the ban on high-end technology exports and removal of Indian organizations, including ISRO and Defense Research & Development Organization (DRDO), from the Entity List."
When I see stuff like this ... (Score:5, Insightful)
And It sure and hell beats a 'Blade Runner' type of World.
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...still mostly an religion-ridden oligarchy where family and caste connections buys you (or excludes you) from education, position and power.
Just substitute "class" for "caste" and you've just described both the UK and more so the US.
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Making points by asking questions? Yes. Really annoying habit? Of course? Did you learn this by watching dumbed down US tv news? Certainly.
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But, you posted anonymously, so you're probably a completely different person just trying to troll.
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In any case, given India's recent achievements in space tech, your mistrust in ISRO's abilities stands to question.
And if you are implying that India is the ONLY religion-riddled caste-discriminating nepotistic country, then I don't know where you've been getting your news from lately.
Dealing with one person from IIRS (mind you, that's NOT the place that builds the remote sensors, it's an educational institute), you can NOT possibly build an opinion about the whole organization. To build a sensible statistic AND make claims, you need a sample space. Not just one sample.
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Caste and corruption form the backbone of India's integrity.
Corruption free India == Disintegration of India
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Have you ever been to India? Or is this just anti asian vitriol that you are spewing because of the pent up rage about the many things in your life that seem out of your control?
India and China are only trying to get back to the eminence that they held centuries ago - before western countries went about destroying their economies so that they could make their own countries wealthier. Read up on history a bit. Start with the East India Company.
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I think you're forgetting the pleasure cyborgs in Blade Runner.
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when I see stuff like this..
I thinj,,,
Everyone sane has obama and the US's number and is giving him and us the cold shoulder. But India was willing to play with Obama. Now India has big big deals going on with Russia and even China and the implications are disasterous for anglo-american geopolitics. So we all know the front end of anglo-american geopolitics is going down big time, but the underlying policy is chaos and war, and I suspect they will get that one way or another. But this announcement is
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And It sure and hell beats a 'Blade Runner' type of World.
Britain is already a Blade Runner world! It's perpetually raining, the colonies went to war with us because they didn't want us interfering, the workforce is run by corporate oligarchs who have their brains programmed to only think and know certain things and undercover police go around "retiring" Brazilian electricians.
Disclaimer for all about to mod me as troll: I'm British, and an ex girlfriend is an (ex) space scientist; she shifted careers a yea
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Better to build space ships than nuclear bombs.
Can't we have both?
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The UK should be researching time travel instead. Then they could go back fifty years and prevent the UK aerospace industry (with its stand-off missiles, supersonic VTOL close support aircraft, supersonic all-weather low-level strike aircraft, hybrid jet/rocket interceptors, reusable spaceplanes etc) from being scrapped. Who knew that those things would ever be any use?
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"It's cheaper to drop obsolescent bombs on some dusty armpit than to decommission them."
You are babbling utterly scornworthy nonsense which there isn't the slightest reason for even laypersons to believe. There is MUCH more to missions and mission support than "wingy thing fly drop bomb".
Sorties are tremendously complex to generate and support. Shipping conventional ordnance for disposal is much cheaper, and using it for live training (training sorties will happen either way), hauling it to a range and havi
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Hear hear! When I look back at what the UK's aerospace industry back in the 60s, it makes me weep for what we've lost. These days, wherever you look, there's just an endless web of interconnected consultants, sub contractors and outsourcers, soaking up money in the name of "maximising efficiency". Inevitably little or nothing gets achieved, and it's never anyone's fault. We need companies like SpaceX, which really seems to have some of that old "get it done" attitude.
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stop with the call centre jokes already! (Score:2, Insightful)
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[Citation needed]. The UK is a member of ESA; ESA has British astronauts; ergo the UK sends UK citizens into space.
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UK law prohibits sending a UK citizen into space so guess they are doing this deal so they can send Indians into space instead, thereby circumventing said law
What in fuck's name are you on?
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Welp, it's at the least going to be interesting to see how far we go like this until the next blatant colonization effort.