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Talk about outsourcing! Will they export their lowly hygiene into space as well? Will future space travelers have to dodge waves of high-speed Indian turds and relatives' corpses (jettisoned from their craft for religious purposes) in addition to asteroids?
ISRO to launch India's first spacecraft to Mars
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/india-mars-probe-launch-space
"The cyclone season is almost over, the planets are in alignment, the countdown has started. On Tuesday at 2.46pm local time, a rocket will blast off from the Indian space port on a small island in the Bay of Bengal, heading for Mars.
Its course will be closely followed. The $70m (£45m) mission – India's first attempt to reach the red planet – aims not just to gather information that might indicate if life has ever existed or could exist there, nor simply to showcase Indian technology, but to steal an interplanetary march on its regional rival, China.
'In the last century the space race meant the US against the Soviets. In the 21st century it means India against China,' said Pallava Bagla, one of India's best known science commentators. 'There is a lot of national pride involved in this.'
That the mission was about national pride was never in doubt. It was announced last year by prime minister Manmohan Singh in his annual address from the battlements of Delhi's famous Red Fort, the bastion of the Mughal emperors. Its success would mean the Indians would join the Russians, the US and the European space agency which have all also reached Mars."
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dang, i thought you meant american indians figure they were building a casino up there to avoid the rush.
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we ll never "colonize" mars or any other planet.
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$70 million, isn't that a little cheap?
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they are not colonizing
they are going home
(http://www.refinedguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/weird-indian-mustache.jpg)
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dang, i thought you meant american indians figure they were building a casino up there to avoid the rush.
;D I kind of thought the same thing.
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we ll never "colonize" mars or any other planet.
we will.
read something from a science professor once in a while ,to get a balance from all the bible reading.
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Colonization = turning Mars into a giant 7-11.
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There's a fat Indian guy who works out in my gym, he makes the whole place stink of a horrendous stench-vergence of curry and Indian BO.
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Using today's technology - - - no, we're not going there.
But 200 years ago, the thought of a iphone could have someone labeled as insane. Today, 3rd graders have them.
Let's see what kinda mars-colonization technology we have in 100 or 200 years. We'll have nano tech machines manufacturing air, steel and water on the surface from rocks. We'll have ships that will get people there in 3 days. I can't imagine some of the amazing things people will take for granted.
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good to see british aid money being well spent
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The real question is who will install the first slurpee machine on the moon?
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:)
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they are not colonizing
they are going home
(http://www.refinedguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/weird-indian-mustache.jpg)
LOL
You must have some stories after spending time over there.
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$70 million, isn't that a little cheap?
There ability to do things at a low cost makes them a potential world leader in rocketry.
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Yes USA would likely spend $700 million doing the same thing.
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LOL was hoping it was the Native Indians of America :D
That'd be something, Rocketships with names such as "Flying Bull", "Flying with Wolves" etc
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we will.
read something from a science professor once in a while ,to get a balance from all the bible reading.
::)
Futuristic Physicists?
Posted on 2012-10-30
One day, sitting around with a group of undergraduate physics students, I listened as one made the bold statement: “If it can be imagined, it can be done.” The others nodded in agreement. It sounded like wisdom. It took me all of two seconds to violate this dictum as I imagined myself jumping straight up to the Moon. I may have asked if the student really thought what he said was true, but resisted the impulse to turn it into an impromptu teaching moment. Instead, I wondered how pervasive this attitude was among physics students and faculty. So I put together a survey and in this post report what I found. The overriding theme: experts say don’t count on a Star Trek future. Ever.
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There ability to do things at a low cost makes them a potential world leader in rocketry.
Sometimes, doing things on the cheap, just won't cut it.
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LOL
You must have some stories after spending time over there.
dude... i try not to be ethnically insensitive... but when i see a country full of starving people that's proud about launching crap into space and then spends a variety of weeks of the year celebrating a host of weird gods while working 120hr weeks for peanuts....
oh yeah, i had some pretty crazy experiences... but most of them were very good
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dude... i try not to be ethnically insensitive... but when i see a country full of starving people that's proud about launching crap into space and then spends a variety of weeks of the year celebrating a host of weird gods while working 120hr weeks for peanuts....
oh yeah, i had some pretty crazy experiences... but most of them were very good
70 million could have done wonders for a new sewage system and toilets for millions of families.
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70 million could have done wonders for a new sewage system and toilets for millions of families.
clean food and water would have been a better start
i visited a town on a weekend with some colleagues (dude came from there) where people were so fricken poor it was unreal... and when i say "town" i mean a shanty full of 50000 people...
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$70 million, isn't that a little cheap?
That's what I'm thinking. 70 million wouldn't pay for a nasa toilet system.
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Using today's technology - - - no, we're not going there.
But 200 years ago, the thought of a iphone could have someone labeled as insane. Today, 3rd graders have them.
Let's see what kinda mars-colonization technology we have in 100 or 200 years. We'll have nano tech machines manufacturing air, steel and water on the surface from rocks. We'll have ships that will get people there in 3 days. I can't imagine some of the amazing things people will take for granted.
Yeah but were still moving slower than a lot of futurists thought. Part of it is because socialism and the nationalism that really drives socialism has become taboo. Just look at how fast the Germans and soviets progressed when they decided they wanted to be a superpower.
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Talk about outsourcing! Will they export their lowly hygiene into space as well? Will future space travelers have to dodge waves of high-speed Indian turds and relatives' corpses (jettisoned from their craft for religious purposes) in addition to asteroids?
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On Tuesday at 2.46pm local time, a rocket will blast off from the Indian space port on a small island in the Bay of Bengal, heading for Mars....
The question of life on Mars will be a moot point after this, as the microorganisms of India can withstand anything. Rocket ride through space to Mars and Mars itself will be no biggie for the stomach bugs of India....
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...One day, sitting around with a group of undergraduate physics students, I listened as one made the bold statement: “If it can be imagined, it can be done.” The others nodded in agreement. It sounded like wisdom. It took me all of two seconds to violate this dictum as I imagined myself jumping straight up to the Moon. I...
Good job!
My favorite is when some idiot social science or humanities researcher says "all knowledge is relative" or "all knowledge is a social construction". Well, try to apply this general statement on the statement itself to see why one should not waste time on such an individual.
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Yeah but were still moving slower than a lot of futurists thought. Part of it is because socialism and the nationalism that really drives socialism has become taboo. Just look at how fast the Germans and soviets progressed when they decided they wanted to be a superpower.
Yeah the soviets progressed militarily and the space program, but their people suffered. What's the point of saying that you nuke someone, when the other party thinks nuking your people would put them out of their misery?
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Yeah the soviets progressed militarily and the space program, but their people suffered. What's the point of saying that you nuke someone, when the other party thinks nuking your people would put them out of their misery?
Very true, and in the end they could not keep up. I read that they used vacuum tubes in their advanced fighter aircraft until the 90s.
Soviet "consumer" electronics were also a disaster. [img width=500
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No need for filthy indians on mars. They best spend that money elsewhere
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Yeah but were still moving slower than a lot of futurists thought. Part of it is because socialism and the nationalism that really drives socialism has become taboo. Just look at how fast the Germans and soviets progressed when they decided they wanted to be a superpower.
during war, all resources went to that. people worked with urgency. we're just chilling now.
PLUS, I have to think that all the REALLY cool shit is being invented in secret, so as to not give these advantages to other nations. If a dude writes the next 'killer app' in his garage, and can make $100k selling it on Apple one download at a time... or the govt offers him a cool ten million bucks, and they use it for their own purposes, hey, why not take the paycheck? :)
I'd bet if some natural event caused earth to suddenly suck bad, we'd see crazy fast strides in progress for moving to mars, moon, or just a rotating space station.
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during war, all resources went to that. people worked with urgency. we're just chilling now.
PLUS, I have to think that all the REALLY cool shit is being invented in secret, so as to not give these advantages to other nations. If a dude writes the next 'killer app' in his garage, and can make $100k selling it on Apple one download at a time... or the govt offers him a cool ten million bucks, and they use it for their own purposes, hey, why not take the paycheck? :)
I'd bet if some natural event caused earth to suddenly suck bad, we'd see crazy fast strides in progress for moving to mars, moon, or just a rotating space station.
no chance... the religious would try to kill us all
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dude... i try not to be ethnically insensitive... but when i see a country full of starving people that's proud about launching crap into space and then spends a variety of weeks of the year celebrating a host of weird gods while working 120hr weeks for peanuts....
oh yeah, i had some pretty crazy experiences... but most of them were very good
Cause you're a nice Canadian.
I haven't been there myself but I imagine they discriminate against each other based on religion, social class, skin colour, gender, sexual preference, etc.
But it's funny to see how quick people from the third world learn their "rights" when they migrate to developed nations. They've been screwing one another for aeons and all of a sudden they expect people to bend over for them. Reminds me of a coworker I had from Iraq who was christian...super nice guy. He'd tell me how they were treated like garbage by most Iraqis being that the majority is muslim. And then these muslims move to places like Canada and expect to be treated with the decency they've never been able to give their own.
Meltdown!
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Van Allen Belts and Cosmic Radiation makes space travel impossible.
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Carbon nano-tubes