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- Smokeydabear, on 08/18/2008, -1/+37Well I hope they do well.
- daeus, on 08/18/2008, -2/+37All these countries joining the space race is a pretty promising sign of the human race starting to make the move out in to space,Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds...
to seek out new life; new civilisations...to boldly go where no one has gone before! - inactive, on 08/18/2008, -4/+33i wonder how vacuum-packed samosas will taste
- DooM, on 08/17/2008, -0/+27Look at me two hours later getting un-lazy enough to look it up. :)
"Chandrayaan I (Sanskrit: चंद्रयान-1, lit: Lunar Craft), is an unmanned lunar mission by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). The mission includes a lunar orbiter as well as an impactor."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan - BubbaChopper, on 08/18/2008, -0/+27After 39 years you'd think the US would have been back.
I figured we'd have at least a Holiday Inn express there by now. - liljay2k, on 08/18/2008, -0/+20Or Starbucks inside the bathroom of a Starbucks.
- damack, on 08/18/2008, -2/+21NASA is way underfunded due to the looming recession.
It takes billions to do things like these and when your country can't even manage it's own economy blowing money on things like trips to the moon is off the menu. - lewhich, on 08/18/2008, -3/+21We will go back if they find oil
- shallot, on 08/18/2008, -2/+19US is way more interested in what britney and paris did today than to think about a return trip to Moon...C'mon...moon is soooo boring....
- uberchaoslord, on 08/18/2008, -6/+22So does that mean they will use the same studio the Americans did for their fake moon landing footage?
hahaha j/k stupid conspiracy theorists.... - willgonz, on 08/18/2008, -2/+16Well, hopefully if they land they will clear up the "Did we land on the moon?" conspiracy. I could hear them now, "We went to where the US claimed to land but there was no flag or no indication anything was there."
- DooM, on 08/17/2008, -2/+16I'm assuming this is going to be a fly-by mission..? The article really doesn't give the details..
- mediaspree, on 08/18/2008, -15/+28That'd be funny if the put a giant red dot on the moon.
/ethnic insensitivity - McHoffa, on 08/18/2008, -0/+13why weren't we there when the economy was great in the 90s then?
They are underfunded because there is no immediate profit potential seen... - umbrellainabin, on 08/17/2008, -2/+14isn't that lovely
- buckchoris, on 08/18/2008, -0/+11China and now India.
- Modiga, on 08/18/2008, -0/+10Because Europe is trying to achieve a cultural victory.
- ashwinmudigonda, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9Space exploration in this aspect is not that far-fetched. If you think about it, India's indigenous technology has actually started a discount satellite launch service, if you will, for even poorer countries. The high success rate of India's launch vehicles combined with state of the art technology at affordable prices has given African and many S. Asian countries their own satellites. Surprisingly, this is one field where the Indian politics and bureaucracies has not mismanaged anything unlike its military research (its indigenous tank 20 years in the making; the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft nowhere close to production; its missile defense system in such an abysmal state that Israel was called for help) Contrary to what most people in the West would think that spending on space research by a developing country is a waste of money, India believes that this peaceful and mutually beneficial investment in technology will foster communication (satellites, of course) and also not brand India as merely an IT powerhouse. You might now understand why Europe Air Defense System (EADS) set up a research wing in India.
- Scrappy1850, on 08/18/2008, -8/+17they will put a 7-11 there
- MisterThirteen, on 08/18/2008, -0/+9Or 5 Starbucks.
- asTer0id, on 08/18/2008, -6/+15hey America, maybe you should do something about the millions of homeless, racial segregation, piss poor healthcare and a collapsing economy before you fight unnecessary wars and run an expensive space program.
Ya think?? - asTer0id, on 08/18/2008, -0/+8just like the hundreds of things people do that are forbidden in the bible without consequence kill the rationality of yours? Its amazing how very few people have any constructive things to write in the comments of this post except, outsourcing, 7-11s, poverty, digs are Hinduism and other cliches. India's been in space for a long time. Next time, spend a little longer on Wikipedia.
- doctornkul, on 08/18/2008, -2/+10Hinduism is a hell of a lot more rational than Christianity. For example, according to Hinduism the Earth is about 2 billion years old. That, while not accurate, is way closer to the real age of the earth than 6000 years.
- haikuFU, on 08/18/2008, -1/+9No, they will have the Bollywood re-creation of it, complete with bad Michael Jackson impersonator doing the indian version of Thriller.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+7Or a McDonalds. Or Walmart.
- Pramma, on 08/18/2008, -1/+8As we should all know by now, any scientific discovery that clearly flies in the face of religious doctrine is promptly ignored, down-played, or provided an extravagant and far less plausible explanation for.
And btw, Hinduism is actually monotheistic. Each 'deity' as it were is an icon for the one god. - dafragsta, on 08/18/2008, -2/+9or terrorists.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -1/+8india's a great country. they broke free from western occupiers and now they're doing space exploration.
- darkatheart, on 08/18/2008, -0/+6I thought it was just your username 'edebolt' sounding like 'idiot' until I red this post. Keep up the racist, stereotyping, mindless *****, you dumb ***** #*&($%(&
- TAWS, on 08/18/2008, -1/+7NASA's budget is already 4 times that of the European Space Agency. Why doesn't Europe spend more money on space?
- Frost9999, on 08/18/2008, -0/+6First off - the flag was knocked over and has probably been damaged by sunshine beyond recognition by now.
Secondly - what's with the link to gay porn? - inactive, on 08/18/2008, -2/+7india... does not have doctors? are you serious? i mean even if you were an american and never set foot outside, you should know about india and doctors. my god, you're a dumbass.
- GoatMonkey2112, on 08/18/2008, -0/+5The stereotypes are making progress. I haven't seen one Qwik-e-mart joke on here, it's mostly tech support now. In a few more years there could be another job that "all" Indians do.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Bums ...like military contractors?
Or the off the books stuff that triples (or more!) the pentagon budget?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01patc.h ... - santasing, on 08/18/2008, -0/+5What you mean you can find fresh samosas in the grocery stores? :-D
- Sunnygurm, on 08/18/2008, -2/+7yeah, thats exactly it...moron.
- foopirata, on 08/18/2008, -2/+6Astronaut: "Puna Control, this is Vishna-1, we seem to have a problem"
Puna Control: "Hi, my name is Bob, thanks for calling Puna Technical Support...have you tried rebooting?" - supermansuper, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4Except that in this case, most of the professors in the US universities are Indians and Chinese.
- ErrorLoading, on 08/18/2008, -2/+6In order for us to thrive and grow, we need to expand. If we spent all of our money investing in bailing out people so we can continue to live here, the problem will just get worse, and worse, and worse until we can not longer survive at all.
It's like if your entire family lived in your great grandparents home, unable to move out. Eventually you share a room, then with 3 people, then 4, etc, then food would become a problem. We need to expand to survive as a race. The earth can only withstand so much.
And lastly, money is arbitrary. The metals and resources used in going to the moon do very little to help people eat unless they want to eat metal. Money is only relative to the item in question. Instead of spending money on food that only redistributes the same amount of food we already have, we need to be a more rational race and give it out for free.
Throwing 1 billion dollars on food for a struggling company only takes 1 billion dollars of food from elsewhere. There is still the same amount of food. We need to expand to be able to grow more food. - GoatMonkey2112, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4It doesn't offend me. I just think it's interesting how the views are changing.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+4ZOMG!! u used r-a-t-i-o-n-a-l-i-ty and religion in the same sentence..
- MisterThirteen, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3Or a Starbucks inside of a Walmart inside of a Mcdonalds Inside of a Starbucks.
- Eezyville, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3No dude the Egyptians were. How do you think they got the pyramids and temples geometrically perfect and aligned with the Sun, they had GPS.
- garryw, on 08/18/2008, -5/+8Sorry but you can't compare a single probe to a series of manned missions. Two orders of magnitude difference in budget and technology.
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3penicillin is against god's will!
- inactive, on 08/18/2008, -1/+4I remember in US class someone asked why NASA can't send a man to the moon again, and the teacher said that everyone who knew how to get to the moon is dead. Haha, I mean we have ideas like religion survive for milleniums yet something so important as reaching the moon was not recorded anywhere. Either way, these days a moon landing film like back in the day would be boring when you're spoiled by other science fiction films.
- foopirata, on 08/18/2008, -0/+3I appreciate that, just on a second read I decided I'd like to make it clear that the intent was definitely not to offend anyone.and you gave me the perfect opportunity. Thanks!
- barraymian, on 08/18/2008, -3/+6maybe this money would've been spent better in saving 1.5 million children that died in India last year of disease and malnutrition (UN estimate, not mine), or maybe giving some subsidies to those thousands of farmers who committed suicide because of debts.
- Andrwmorph, on 08/18/2008, -2/+5Dugg for making fun of stupid people!
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