i know i might get mixed reviews for this one...but i do not think i support the fact that the unmanned mission to outerspace, from India, the Chandrayaan has had a successful attempt to cross-over and reach the moon..Call it a cliche or whatever...i know it is a brilliant feat..and loads of applause for it but at the same time i find it an absolute fallacy to be doing this, at a time when there are lakhs of people in India wanting to survive on more than just a one meal per day basis.Recession has set in...prices are soaring;Yes, it is a huge cliche but hey we are all struggling to survive: people are struggling below the poverty line, there are millions who need a house over their heads and are floating away in floods...and dude...what are we doing? we are reaching out to the stars and crossing over to reach the moon instead...!
what is the point? and for once i really want to hear things other than just the fact that we are trying to pave the way for further missions and launches and we are trying to map the surface of the moon and we might just be staying their in the next couple of hundred years and that,it is India's first attempt...so let the world applaud...what else besides this?
Besides this, what irritates the living daylight out of me is that the total cost is estimated at around Rs 350 crores...do you know how much money is that!!jeezz...tell you what, just give me a 0.005% of what you guys spend for the expedition..i need to get my business rolling!! I am selfish so can i please get some money...
Please feel free to criticize.
Glendalough, Ireland
5 years ago
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>> Please feel free to criticize
okay, then, here goes... regardless of the arguments given by the powers that be, in favour of the moon mission, i think the actual, underlying reasons are far more complex than you and me would like to believe...
space is real estate... it doesn't matter when we live there, if we live there at all, it IS still real estate... and the spoils go to the ones who got there first... or, in our case, relatively first...
its a little like the age of colonisation when the whole world, practically, was a part of one or the other little nationlets in europe... this is that, all over again, except this time its space we're talking about...
regardless of the number of needy and hungry in our country we need to be there doing that if we want to be taken seriously as a world power... and with over a billion people living in this country we want to be seen as a world power...
so its not just posturing... its how the global community defines 'world power'... so we have our nuclear programs and space programs and UN peacekeeping missions and contributions to global relief funds... while millions in our own country die for want of a fraction of the cost of all this...
sad, perhaps, but true, imho... its a world we created and a world we have to live in... and a world we need to control before we can change it... c'est la vie...
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hey hill! that was a nice one...and i do understand the implications ..though, i have to admit,at a grassroot level, since the 'underlying reasons are far more complex' for us to fathom....
but i cannot bring myself to understand the standpoint.."why" and "why not" is covered in the next post!
iv posted ..yet another one...in response to this...
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