Congratulations to India!
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Yes, congratulations! I can't wait for someone to put another man on the moon. Yes it was done 40 years ago, but that was so last century. We need to kick start another drive for the 21st century. If we, in this world, can get over our maddening greed, we could move forward and get some good space exploration done. We should be able to get man to the moon again, establish a moon base, then on to Mars. So much for my wishful thinking/hoping.
modified on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 11:45 PM
Unless we build a major fraction of a Mars ship on the Moon, I question its actual benefit to the end goal. The only thing we could learn is if 1/6th g is enough to keep the body from falling apart.
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Let's just hope this is a step towards becoming a more advanced society so they stop doing the horrible things they do.
Jim in Arizona wrote:
Let's just hope this is a step towards becoming a more advanced society so they stop doing the horrible things they do.
I also hope then we don't start doing the advanced horrible things the more advanced society does. :)
-Suhredayan
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Jim in Arizona wrote:
Let's just hope this is a step towards becoming a more advanced society so they stop doing the horrible things they do.
I also hope then we don't start doing the advanced horrible things the more advanced society does. :)
-Suhredayan
lol .. got a point there.
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For their successful lunar probe!
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Thank you! and good to hear that. And more proud of the fact this is from a place where a large part still depends on bullock carts.
-Suhredayan
suhredayan wrote:
this is from a place where a large part still depends on bullock carts
Seems like its been decades since you flew down to India. :doh: ;)
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Yeah, the same one Bollywood had rented out to NASA in 1969. ;) ;P :laugh:
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suhredayan wrote:
this is from a place where a large part still depends on bullock carts
Seems like its been decades since you flew down to India. :doh: ;)
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Nirav Doshi wrote:
Seems like its been decades since you flew down to India
Two months back while I was in Bangalore had seen few on the city roads.
-Suhredayan
Sorry! I'm in Bangalore for the last 5+ yrs., never seen even one on the city roads. My point was - India has changed, Indians have too - in our own way. A majority of India doesn't ride on bullock carts today. Our house maid has a cellphone, just like my newspaper delivery boy. They're aware of the Chandrayaan-I - whose main control room is in Bidar - just a few kilometers away from Bangalore city. The Tata Nano is undergoing its final road tests, while Honda reduced the price of the Honda Civic Hybrid by 8+ Lakhs! <quote> Chandrayaan-I cost ISRO US$80 million ($120.193 million), compared to Japan's Selene mission's US$480 million, or China's Change-E1 mission that cost US$187 million. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART-1) in 2003 cost US$140 million. </quote>
* Blood donation is the superior'est form of donation, it can save lives. Celebrate special occasions, like your birthdays, by donating blood. *
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Sorry! I'm in Bangalore for the last 5+ yrs., never seen even one on the city roads. My point was - India has changed, Indians have too - in our own way. A majority of India doesn't ride on bullock carts today. Our house maid has a cellphone, just like my newspaper delivery boy. They're aware of the Chandrayaan-I - whose main control room is in Bidar - just a few kilometers away from Bangalore city. The Tata Nano is undergoing its final road tests, while Honda reduced the price of the Honda Civic Hybrid by 8+ Lakhs! <quote> Chandrayaan-I cost ISRO US$80 million ($120.193 million), compared to Japan's Selene mission's US$480 million, or China's Change-E1 mission that cost US$187 million. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology (SMART-1) in 2003 cost US$140 million. </quote>
* Blood donation is the superior'est form of donation, it can save lives. Celebrate special occasions, like your birthdays, by donating blood. *
Nirav Doshi wrote:
Sorry! I'm in Bangalore for the last 5+ yrs., never seen even one on the city roads.
Nirav Doshi wrote:
My point was - India has changed, Indians have too - in our own way.
I only said I was proud of that.
-Suhredayan
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Nirav Doshi wrote:
Sorry! I'm in Bangalore for the last 5+ yrs., never seen even one on the city roads.
Nirav Doshi wrote:
My point was - India has changed, Indians have too - in our own way.
I only said I was proud of that.
-Suhredayan
suhredayan wrote:
I only said I was proud of that.
Your original comment did not sound like that. Also - the article clearly mentioned it was done as a form of protest. Otherwise bullock carts aren't used for transport in the city. Anyway - as both of us are proud of our country, let this argument RIP.
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Shog9 wrote:
that's appropriate, right?
No, that's an old TV show. Ted Danson plays Sam Malone, a retired baseball pitcher who owns a bar. Remember? ;)
