India's moonshot, why?

Syzygys

Syzygys

As a mother, I am telling you
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/22/india.space/

I don't really see why India needs its own moonshot. What's the point? Instead of wasting money and talent on that, why not try to come up with something actually useful for humankind? Like low energy transportation (yes, I know Tata, good direction), killing of the stupid cows bellching climate changing emissions,etc...

http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro...rping-cows-higher-than-family-car-967995.html

You see that Russians had the technology and still scrapped the idea once the Americans did it. Why waste energy on something almost completely wasteful???
 
India just wants to show off that it can do this sort of thing. It gives them global stature of the others who have deployed spacecraft to the moon. It is just for prestige I'd think.
 
Syzygys said:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/10/22/india.space/

I don't really see why India needs its own moonshot. What's the point? Instead of wasting money and talent on that, why not try to come up with something actually useful for humankind?
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Manned space exploration is a waste of money period, the first Moonshot was dick waving, and this is just a late entry to the dickfest.

Simply they are doing it because they can. Perhaps it's to show up George Bush as being an asshole after he promised a US return to the Moon, who knows?
 
Chandrayan is an unmanned mission

"We sometimes face the question why India is attaching so much importance to this mission, nearly 40
years after man first landed on the Moon. "The reality is that there is now a renewed interest in the Moon for a variety of reasons," Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Dr K Radhakrishnan and his counterpart in the Satish Dhawan Space Centre M C Dathan told a team of visiting journalists here.

For one thing, the Moon could be a major source of energy for human beings, grappling with the grim question of how to overcome the critical situation caused by fast depleting fossil fuel reserves on Earth.

Earlier Moon missions had detected the presence of Helium in the celestial body's surface. In future there could be explorations to bringing it (to Earth), harness and process it, they said.

Secondly, the Moon, the only natural satellite of Earth, is an intermediary planet. Explorations there could serve as a scientific and technological exercise in man's dream of reaching to other planets like Mars.
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I have to agree that any moonshot is kind of pointless for India or anyone else. Why? What else are we going to learn? Hey, it's got some level of gravity! We never knew that before! Hey, it's not made of cheese!

India needs to spend its cash elsewhere. Badly.
 
phlogistician said:
Ah, the term 'Moonshot' (from the OP) is usually used for manned missions, and I'd been reading about India planning one by 2015 given the success of this mission.

I'm all for probes, well done India.
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They are planning another probe after this one:

After the successful launch of India's first unmanned mission to moon, Chandrayaan-1, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) i
s planning to send its second lunar odyssey, Chandrayaan-2, an Indo-Russian joint venture, likely by the end of next year or early 2010.

The work on this project would be taken up after Chandrayaan-1 starts its task of researching the moon, ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair told reporters here after the PSLV-C11 launched the spacecraft.

"One of the two GSLV missions next year could carry Chandrayaan-2," he said.

The team behind the success of the first mission would work on Chandrayaan-2 also, he added.

However, the composition of the instruments for Chandrayaan-2 would be decided after studying the data received from the first mission, he said.

The second mission, for which the ISRO and Russian federal space agency have already signed a pact, would feature a lander and a rover for a soft land on moon.

"However, there would be a provision for accommodating payloads from other space agencies as is the case of Chandrayaan 1," Nair said.

In addition to India's five payloads, Chandrayaan-1 is carrying scientific instruments
of the European Space Agency, Bulgaria and the USA.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3627922.cms
 
More firing money into space. That could be done a lot easier by just burning it on earth, and with less environmental damage, too.
 
S.A.M. said:
You mean fund your grants instead? :D
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:eek: Er, uh, nooo. I don't know what would make you think that!

Although seriously...come on. It's the moon. We know. What else is there? :shrug:

Tell them to send me the money and I'll burn it on the barbeque. Or just the cheque. Fast, easy, environmentally friendly and at a mere $1,000,000 shipping and handling surcharge for the addition of absolutely no knowledge to the human understanding of the universe, it's a positive steal.
 
I understand, India wants to build moon based weapons to aim at china and pakistan. That's cool. Someone should tell them that a weapon in geosynchronus orbit would probably be more effective, if more short-term.
 
S.A.M. said:
Chandrayan is an unmanned mission
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yes, so? Does it make it more worthy? How about a project feeding the needy? And before you start to bitch about the American homeless, we don't care for the poor here and that is for another thread anyway....

They should have built a giant pink elephant, if they wanted to impress me...
 
Syzygys said:
How about a project feeding the needy? And before you start to bitch about the American homeless, we don't care for the poor here and that is for another thread anyway.....
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Then don't bring it into this thread. It's not like the USA decided to spend it's surplus cash on a Moonshot after providing ubiquitous healthcare and education for all, is it? So don't diss India for doing the same as the USA.
 
S.A.M. said:
Chandrayan is an unmanned mission
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and the relevance and utility of quoted text?
i mean the guy says absolutely nothing

see here ....

The remote sensing satellite weighs 1,308 kilograms (2,884 lb) (590 kilograms (1,301 lb) initial orbit mass and 504 kilograms (1,111 lb) dry mass) and carries high resolution remote sensing equipment for visible, near infrared, soft and hard X-ray frequencies. Over a two-year period, it is intended to survey the lunar surface to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and 3-dimensional topography. The polar regions are of special interest, as they might contain water ice.

now
redundant or not?
more pertinent, ja?

i would advise this syzgysdys tard to use a brain cell or two when opening up threads and stop dumbing down the forum

"moonshot" my goddamn ass
 
phlogistician said:
Then don't bring it into this thread.
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That was an offensive deffense, because I knew she would mention it. :)

So don't diss India for doing the same as the USA.
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Why not if it is something bad? And going back to the project, the US was first with the Moonshot, not 6th....

The Indians simply could have googled the results. :)
 
Gustav honeybun, you are on my Ignore, just in case you are trying to address me...Don't waste your breath...

A nice goal for the Indians first would be to whipe off cholera and typhoid fever...
 
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