India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

Post by rayiner » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

roenxi wrote: post #19

nafey wrote: post #15

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Well let's revisit this statement in 500 years. Every decade has brought the world closer. Even the recent developments (brexit, trump) are reactions to increased pace of integration. You can find kfc, coca cola in socities as diverse as Mongolia and Madagascar. It will be extremely difficult to turn the clock back on this and this will only keep on intensifying in my opinion.

" A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars. " [0] If you assume that the world order should look like America in charge, everyone else playing quietly in their own garden then everything is fine. If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers migh…

Post by TeMPOraL » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #22

roenxi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars. " [0] If you assume that the world order should look like America in charge, everyone else playing quietly in their own garden then everything is fine. If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers migh…

> If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers might see the world differently And if you’re an American, the prospect of that single national government being say Bangladesh ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/world/asia/bangladesh-sta... ) should be pretty scary! Star Trek style global government seems attractive to many people because they assume it’ll be “America in Space.”

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 12:27 PM UTC

dragonsh wrote: post #7

It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tribal nationalistic thinking to space. Best scientist can be in any nation and more diverse the group and experience the better chances of success. I know I am just dreaming, but hopefully we can c…

Post by stochastic_monk » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

nithinm wrote: post #21

thewhitetulip wrote: post #5

I read that the maximum experiments are in the orbiter so this is a successful mission. The only thing for which it 'failed' was to let the ruling class do chest thumping by saying 'we are the fourth country to land a rover'. The ruling party had planned a great celebration today for it's 100 days in office, a date coinciding when the rover would land! They wanted to milk it for their nationalistic purposes while the…

I think you are unnecessarily making this political. Even if India was successful at landing i dont think the government would count it as 'their' achievement rather would be counted as an achievement of the whole nation. And even 'non-blind' followers would celebrate, given how everyone were on edge of their seats yesterday. Also no one is bashing Nehru because he started ISRO. Calling the moon landing a government…

Post by WanderPanda » Sat, Sep 07, 2019, 12:33 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #22

roenxi wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

" A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars. " [0] If you assume that the world order should look like America in charge, everyone else playing quietly in their own garden then everything is fine. If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers migh…

> If you assume that the Asian, African and European powers might see the world differently And if you’re an American, the prospect of that single national government being say Bangladesh ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/world/asia/bangladesh-sta... ) should be pretty scary! Star Trek style global government seems attractive to many people because they assume it’ll be “America in Space.”