I can't parse the ": President" in the headline. Is that standard way to indicate that "the President said so"?
India to launch Mars mission this year: President
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#12what about educating children in the vast slums of Mumbai... what about water supply to the villages afflicted with famine..
Where do you choose to draw the line in such cases? Every country makes this choice. Every country does some expensive things instead of spending that money on the poorest members of its society. If one advocates anything other than complete equality of living standards, sending a mission to mars whilst the poor go hungry is just a question of degree.
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#13Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
Re: India to launch Mars mission this year: President
#14Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
Claiming property of whatever they find up there?
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#15I can't parse the ": President" in the headline. Is that standard way to indicate that "the President said so"?
If you go to their home page and look at the "Other Stories" section, it appears to be a standard way to attribute the phrase. Think of it as Reverse Indian Notation; in North America we'd say "President: India to launch Mars mission this year".
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#16I can't parse the ": President" in the headline. Is that standard way to indicate that "the President said so"?
I agree. That's just backwards. But I've seen it in the Australian press too.
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#17Should I be credulous about this? I've seen Indian newspapers report some pretty odd things.
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#18Is there any point in countries doing that alone, rather than global cooperation?
Sticking a flag on a rock in space has the side-effect of changing how the the world perceives you...
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#19Expecting a flury of "fix all your problems before anything else" comments ITT. Keeping aside cynicism, it is nice to see a lot of countries aiming towards exploring Mars. We can cover even more grounds this way. Looking forward to a better space race and hoping these countries will do the right by releasing their work into the public domains.
"fix all your problems before anything else" Will come as a byproduct of their Space program. It's true as you say, some people have a knee-jerk reaction to this, but more level-headed people can see the enormous benefit in not just science, technology and medicine that will surely come as a result of this, but also the jobs it will create and the inertia to succeed. That's gotta pump some money back into the economy.
There are several generations of scientists, mathematicians engineers, doctors, you name it... that have been inspired by the U.S. space program, so I can completely view this as the best idea they've had in a long time.
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#20Should I be credulous about this? I've seen Indian newspapers report some pretty odd things.
Ah, I stand corrected. I thought this was to be a manned mission. It is late in my neck of the woods.