Congrats to India! Glad to see more space programs succeed.
“Let’s stop all progress until we deal with insert_your_problem_of_choice” has never been a good take, it stifles development without actually helping. In an ideal world that might work, but as is it just doesn’t.
To add to that, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn’t get fixed by stopping space programs.
You basically said what I was going to, but the ideal world part I disagree with.
A world in which enough is grown to feed everyone and enough profit is produced to meet everyone’s needs doesn’t need to be ideal. It’s a world we live in now.
The above dude should just stick to attacking the ultra wealthy and like you said, not space programs.
But like I was saying, an ideal world isn’t needed. Just about 30% of the rest of us to physically and verbally confront the few thousand or so who take too much.
Lol, what? Where did you get the word ‘progress’ from? Seems like a loaded argument.
Try to be more direct and don’t put words in my mouth. Argue with what I’m saying, not with what sounds nice in your head.
“Let’s stop all progress until we deal with insert_your_problem_of_choice” has never been a good take
I mean, sure, most of the time.
But when one is “a shit ton of kids is starving” and the other is “vanity moon mission we don’t gain knowledge from”…
Yeah, maybe address the starving kids first.
but I doubt that starving children in India is actually a mere money problem. It looks more like a wealth distribution problem, and that one doesn’t get fixed by stopping space programs.
India flat out said the reason for this program is for PR…
It’s not science, it’s not innovation, or the pursuit of knowledge.
The reason they’ve spent decades and billions on this, is to try and seem like India is a 1st world country.
That could also be accomplished by not having one of the world’s highest rates of childhood starvation and malnourishment.
Instead they ignore that for “flashier” methods.
Yeah, me too.
Seems like a waste of time and energy that could be better spent doing something else.
I think satellites are cool, though. Most space exploration is going to be eclipsed by advances in technology before we can do anything of value with it. But hey, it makes rich people richer faster! Anything to distract from helping those at the bottom rungs of society, lol. That’s not sexy!
ISROʼs last lunar exploration mission was in 2019 and called Chandrayaan-2. The lunar orbiter succeeded. The lunar lander, named Vikram, failed, crashing onto the lunar surface. Vikram contained a lunar rover named Pragyan.
Here is Scott Manleyʼs review of the Vikram failure.
Here is a New York Times gift article link about today’s (2023-07-14) launch.
Here are animations of the planned orbits (Videos (1,2) by Phoenix777 / 🅭🅯🄎 4.0):
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Back in Reddit, you couldn’t have a single post about India’s space works without the mods locking the threads. I had hoped those fuckers would stay there.
I’ll believe it when it doesn’t crash and burn like the last one.
India has a long history of making huge claims, failing, and then claiming that was the goal.
Maybe if they’re really lucky, they’ll find someone that cares about pathetically dull opinions like the one you just (tried to) expressed.
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