What do you think about India's race to the moon, does it serve any purpose now
By bobyktm
@bobyktm (52)
India
November 4, 2008 11:18am CST
The Americans has already landed men on the moon in several apollo missions and
have even taken vast quantities of samples for analysis back to earth . So i dont see any immediate need to sent
further missions to the moon, i feel its simply a show, rather than a need .
So Indians got the technology now and it happened so because indians
were waiting all this while to get the technology from else where, when
they refused india started spending on research, and sure they did it. Similarly
indians are waiting to get technology, cheap without any hard work . India had in
the past produced several nobel laurates in the past, now it has not happened in recent years
since, no focus is given to research and inventions, only copying the hard work of
foreign inventions is taking place . Please comment on this sorry plight in recent years
2 responses
@tulipstrader (1467)
• India
19 Nov 08
its true others have landed in moon decades back. but no one shares the knowledge with you on what they found and how it can be harnesses for our benefit. each country has its own vision about moon. so is india and its scientific community. not every detail is shared with public. a billion dollar spent on these projects is still small money spent. it is better than writing away bad loans.
you said several noble laureats. do you know how many. its still less than the number of fingers on your hands. this mission is not to earn any nobel prizes. its to prove our capabilities, even if we have to buy some of it. it shows we are willing to take risk and lose a few thousand crores of money. that is good attitude. i like it
@bobyktm (52)
• India
20 Nov 08
If you think like that let it be so , I mentioned Nobel laureates , just to tell about
how serious we are about excellence. There are too many patriots out there
, that's why no body wants to excell any more, since by achieving very little
there is a great aplause. There every hard effort ends. I think that bad loans should
not be written off, that is a very big mistake. so bad loans are also encouraged. There
also excellence is ridiculed .
