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India preps craft for first mission to Mars
Not to be outdone by China in the space race, India is set to flex its muscles on the world stage, planning a mission to Mars late next year. K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), told reporters on Saturday that there will be a definitive announcement on the scientific research-based …
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Monday 16th July 2012 08:51 GMT BristolBachelor
Re: We paid for this...
I'm not sure who "we" is, but I suspect you are in the USA? Just to be sure, is this the USA that spends more on "defense" than any other country on the planet by a large margin? Is engaged in wars with various contries? Has to borrow / print new money to pay the interest on its debts? The same USA that also has to rely on charity to feed some of its people or provide them with essential healthcare?
Just askin'
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Monday 16th July 2012 12:14 GMT Citizen Kaned
Re: The UK can be proud of what aid to India has achieved.
and i admire that but at the same time shouldnt they actually spend their money on their people? why should we foot the bill? basically we are paying for their space program, when we cant even afford our own.
surely they show they dont need the money after all?
i know a lot of it is for trade reasons but its a hard pill to swallow when my tax money is taken and given to a country to refuse to help their own people and spend it on Mars missions.
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Monday 16th July 2012 13:49 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: The UK can be proud of what aid to India has achieved.
'and i admire that but at the same time shouldnt they actually spend their money on their people? why should we foot the bill? basically we are paying for their space program, when we cant even afford our own.'
Yes they should and its shameful that so many people in India have almost nothing and rely on our aid. But we shouldn't ignore some of the poorest people in the world just because their own government doesn't do enough for them.
And we could afford a space programme if we chose, our leaders have decided that its not terribly important so we're not only the only country to ever give up a space programme, but we're only fringe players in ESA. Doubling or tripling our expenditure on space would hardly be a huge imposition and it would be repaid manyfold because Britain is actually bloody good at this with both Astrium and SurreySat as big players in the satellite business.
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 08:22 GMT Paranoid-Android
Re: We paid for this...
No, you did not. All your aid is conditional and self serving. Your govt "aids" other countries so your companies can sell goods to those countries with that "aid money". Please snap out of your illusion.
If you really want to aid the third world how about open sourcing all your patents?
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 20:28 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: I wonder...
The Govt of India does spend a shedload on various societal welfare schemes, problem is most of the money/ resources are stolen by corrupt officials/ businesses at every level and the purported beneficiaries get very little.
See http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bag/bag41.pdf
Social Services (*** a mixed bag of things) Rs 178,906 cr
That's about GBP 20.8 b.
As opposed to this, the budget for Atomic Energy/ Space is:
- Dept of Space: Rs 5,615 cr
- Dept of Atomic Energy: Rs 11,673 cr
Ref: http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bag/bag42.pdf
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Monday 16th July 2012 13:56 GMT implicateorder
Racist diatribes!
Wtf with these racist diatribes against india? Your ancestors bled india dry of all its wealth for 200 years...that too like some sneaky, underhanded little cheats.
Grow up and deal with it brats...lobby your government to stop try and pretend to be what your nation isnt anymore --relevant on a global scale. India will do what it has to do...another 20 years and your future generations will be lining up for work permits to india...
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Monday 16th July 2012 14:18 GMT SkippyBing
Re: Racist diatribes!
That may be a slight over reaction, there was no racism in the previous post merely some statements of fact, i.e the Indian government has decided to spend some of its money on a space program rather than a sanitation program. That's its prerogative, it's just a bit galling when your own country is funding the sanitation program instead and you haven't even got a space program.
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Tuesday 17th July 2012 07:26 GMT Martin Huizing
Had to reply here...
"The proposed Mars mission will apparently be focussed on the Red Planet’s origins and evolution, its climate and geography and whether life can be sustained there."
What can they possibly discover what the Americans haven't already discovered?
NASA has not exactly been holding out on information, have they? I think money would be better spend on a joint operation than going at it themselves.
It's like saying they want to have the first man on the moon, again!
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