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India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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whack wrote: post #62
Zelmor wrote: post #48

That is an aged political view of the world. Nowadays, a third world country is where you can die of disease, infection, etc. by drinking water due to lack of sanitation. Where infrastructure is missing almost completely, and where the majority of people live below international poverty lines (no, US families with 3 bedroom houses and loans to pay are not below the international poverty line. People sleeping in their…

Even ignoring all the factually false statements, that was an unnecessarily condescending rant.

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Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by dang »

curiousgal wrote: post #5
dang wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't do this here.

His wording is off but he does raise a good point of discussion.

It isn't a good point of discussion; it's a "classic flamewar topic" (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) that leads to the same predictable, angry discussion every time it's invariably raised in stories about India, especially India's space program.

We need the intellectual maturity as a community to resist such temptation and differentiate one topic (e.g., a good thing people are doing) from another (e.g. the worst known fact about those people). This is more important the more complex a system gets, and it's hard to imagine more complex systems than a country or more complex countries than India.

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by WWKong »

eklavya wrote: post #9
WWKong wrote: post #2

Yes, they will build toilets too. Just getting that out of the way.

When it's a country you are talking about, you have to plan for centuries and not the next decade. Being myopic will only hurt. It's not like building toilets and launching satellites are an either/or. Besides launching satellites is a very profitable business for India. So why not?

That was exactly my point. Totally lost on HN. Every time we have, "India did x in tech", we get, "but they don't have toilets".

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by Johnie »

People playing Kerbal Space Program [1] have been doing multiple satellite launches for a while.

But the more serious point is that we now have an entire generation of kids growing up learning about rocket science. It's exciting to see what they will do with this knowledge when they grow up.

See: * https://youtu.be/4WP4yICiZno

* https://youtu.be/fEtgo4M7Z8g

* http://imgur.com/a/WjGNH

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by beachstartup »

zellyn wrote: post #78

Out of curiosity: how do you launch 20 satellites like this without danger of collisions? I guess you accelerate between deploying each satellite to slightly change the orbit?

perhaps like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/4omesk/pre...

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

rrrazdan wrote: post #61

As an Indian and personal supporter of the Indian space program, I don't see this as a feat in the international sense. What was the technological leap? ISRO could have done this few years back as well. Its just that the payload combination clicked this time. By bragging about things like these we merely betray our jingoism. And what's more when a real technological feat happens it would be drowned out because we glo…

Publicity could lead to satellite-based companies considering Indian launches as an option over (more) expensive US/Russian/ESA led ones.

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by WWKong »

dang wrote: post #92
curiousgal wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His wording is off but he does raise a good point of discussion.

It isn't a good point of discussion; it's a "classic flamewar topic" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) that leads to the same predictable, angry discussion every time it's invariably raised in stories about India, especially India's space program. We need the intellectual maturity as a community to resist such temptation and differentiate one topic (e.g., a good thing people are doing) from another…

Thanks. This is what I was trying to convey. Next time I will be more direct.

Re: India launches 20 satellites in single mission

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Post by pm90 »

netcan wrote: post #85
sidcool wrote: post #24

There will be naysayers when a second or third world country achieves a milestone. Inspite of similar feats done before by developed nations, this is huge for developing economies. Similar thing happened when the earlier Prime Minister of India announced that India will launch a Mars mission within a year at a fraction of cost at what NASA or ESA would do it. Most people laughed at it, and said it's impossible and wh…

I'm not gonna speak for HN, but I read this site and personally I'm totally behind India's ambitions in space. I'm happy to cheer their successes and I hope it's meaningful to Indians too. The one thing I sometimes complain about is the nationalism. India's no worse than the others on tis front. I'd like (personally) for space exploration to be a human endeavor rather than a national one.

We often forget that despite all the claims of NASA being a world space agency, the flag on the moon is an American one, not a UN one or a representation of some other world agency.

I completely agree that nationalism is horrible for something as important as space colonization. But make no mistake, unless we manage to form an international government before space colonization commences, there will be a scramble for space colonies, much like there was a scramble for colonies on earth.

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