India Plans To Have Its Own Space Station (techcrunch.com) 113
India plans to have its own space station in the future and conduct separate missions to study Sun and Venus, it said on Thursday, as the nation moves to bolster its status as a leader in space technologies and inspire the young minds to take an interest in scientific fields. From a report: India's space agency said today that it will begin working on its space station following its first manned mission to space, called Gaganyaan, in 2022 -- just in time to commemorate 75 years of the country's independence from Britain. The government has sanctioned Rs 10,000 crores ($1.5 billion) for Gaganyaan mission, it was unveiled today. "We have to sustain the Gaganyaan program after the launch of the human space mission. In this context, India is planning to have its own space station," said Dr Kailasavadivoo Sivan, chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). ISRO is India's equivalent to NASA. "While navigation, communication, and earth observation are going to be the bread and butter for us, it is missions such as Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan, and Gaganyaan that excite the youth, unite the nation, and also pave a technological seed for the future." The ambitious announcements come a day after the space agency said it will launch a lunar mission on July 15 this year in an attempt to become only the fourth nation to land on the moon.
Indian poverty (Score:2, Insightful)
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"Memo to India: Instead of indulging in an expensive Space Program, how about you spend some of that money and effort erradicating domestic problems like poverty, hunger, and violence against women? "
Look outside your window. You have the internet, the phone, the power and the cable TV nailed to wooden posts, just like us in India.
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Look outside your window. There's your toilet. That's the difference.
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Kwik-E-Mart in space!!!
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Look outside your window. You have the internet, the phone, the power and the cable TV nailed to wooden posts, just like us in India.
Do people really do that? I have everything underground, for example.
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Do people really do that? I have everything underground, for example.
I have everything hanging from posts because it's not safe to run power underground in my geography. Once you go to the expense of hanging power lines, might as well hang all the other wires too.
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India is all 220V nominal at 50Hz. Japan is the one with 50Hz on one side of the country and 60Hz on the other.
Memo to USA (Score:3, Insightful)
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waste money on vanity projects like space travel
This is a shit take and you should be hung by the gallows for saying it.
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Memo to India: Instead of indulging in an expensive Space Program, how about you spend some of that money and effort erradicating domestic problems like poverty
The only societies that even tried to stop doing anything speculative until all putatively high-priority problems had been solved were Marxist societies, which no longer exist. What they found out was that technological advancements are related, which was why the Soviets themselves eventually had to break that lockstep. If you concentrate on problems one at a time, you don't solve any of them.
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Given the economic benefits to a country from investing in space exploration this expensive space programme may well do more to boost living conditions across India than merely putting the money into local infrastructure.
Btw, as someone else noted, India's rate of reported rape is substantially lower than the US. If you really want a rape related target, look at how many men are killed due to false rape accusations.
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Memo to India: Instead of indulging in an expensive Space Program, how about you spend some of that money and effort erradicating domestic problems like poverty, hunger, and violence against women? Seriously, stop pretending you're an advanced society until your entire population of over a billion have reasonable places to live, enough food to eat, and aren't being attacked by roving gangs of assholes who rape and murder women, okay?
Every single thing you just said pales in comparison to their shit problem. These people do not know how to shit, take a shit, or use a shitter. Toilets are practically sorcery to these people and that needs to be solved first. The idea that India is considering building its own space station is so laughable that I don't know where to begin.
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You think they have a population problem now, imagine what happens if they stop bathing in shitty corpse water.
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Yeah yeah, we get that.
We don't need another 60 ignorant idiots telling us we shouldn't spend money except for on toilets. Because that's what all progressive people do.
But in the meanwhile while we learn from people whose own awareness of the world is no more than stereotypes, we will continue to "waste" money on science and technology.
It's not ignorance to point out the obvious fact that Indians have zero concepts of hygiene and bacterial/sewage management. The stereotype applies because its true and is based on facts. Grow up.
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"I did notice something similar in another thread, my own post got deleted. It was still visible on my profile page, but not in the thread, nor in the condensed view of my contributions (the one that also shows the nr of replies). Very weird."
Not weird at all. You have just set your reading limit a bit higher than your writing skills because you don't want to read moronic brain farts from idiots.
I hate to tell you, but you seem to be one of them.
Read at -1 and you'll see all your witty replies.
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"Otherwise, we have to suspect that comments are being deleted, perhaps as a form of censorship."
You must be new here, nobody cares.
Just read all the comments of an article, any article and you'll understand.
promises and plans (Score:1)
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Of course, and that's a good thing. Nothing to get upset about. Are you also upset that there are few people who've been to the bottom of the ocean?
I don't get this geek fascination with manned space; except for some poetic imagery and emotion, it's quite useless.
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Um, where are you planning on going when that happens? There is no planet within reach that would be immune to the death of the Sun.
Re: promises and plans (Score:2)
Shit. And we only have a few billion years to figure it out. Clearly the situation is hopeless.
Re: promises and plans (Score:2)
You're a very angry individual.
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Oh well in that case we are for sure colonizing the universe. You got me there!
Re: promises and plans (Score:2)
I think we can all agree that you're not colonizing anything.
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Neither are you. Or your kids. Or their kids. Or anyone, really. Ever.
Equipped with massive phone bank (Score:1, Troll)
So the crew can pay for the development costs as an out-sourced tech support.
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"...Have you tried rebooting your Mars probe yet?"
Status symbol (Score:1)
You are not a true super-power until you have massive boondoggles.
India, welcome to Club Boondoggle!
Really? (Score:1)
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And how are they going to crack the toilet problem?
Make a hole in the floor ?
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Yup -- as the song goes, "We are all of us in the sewer [sic] [youtube.com], but some of us are looking at the stars."
Priorities? (Score:1)
When a country has people defecating in the streets and lawless tribes and they are worried about a space station rather than correcting these issues I question their inteliigence
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California is a state, not a country.
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;)
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they could have even added caste system and your reply would still work.
good show
Oh crap! (Score:1)
It had to be said.
Dammit, you trolls aren't even trying! (Score:4, Funny)
Not one joke so far about the 800 people who will be riding the outside of the space station.
Crore (Score:2)
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Just what we need. (Score:1)
Another space station, because one international one isn't enough.
What would they even use it for? Global microsoft support?