If you think that everyone is proud of India for being ambitious and sending the Mangalyaan - Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) into the space in Nov 2013, then you better read the following articles first filled with racism and egoism.
The CS Monitor : India's Mars Mission - worth the cost?
CNN : Is India's Mars mission the latest escalation in Asia's space race?
India's Mars Orbiter Mission, something that not only India but the whole mankind should be happy and excited about has sadly faced some illogical views from questionable intellectuals across the world. But I'm happy to observe that none of them belongs to any scientific community of any country.
Let's get some facts together.
The aid of US$343 million from UK is peanuts.
India is a $1.5 trillion economy. The aid of US$343 million from UK is peanuts. The profit one single UK company Unilever makes from its India business is $3.4 billion that is 10 times that aid. (Source: Wikipedia Hindustan Unilever ) I suspect the inter-country aid business can be related to business contracts one country gets from another, a lot goes into politics that the common man, including the poor UK taxpayers don't know about. I mean seriously, do you think $343 million, a meager INR 450 crore is a big amount for India?
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh spends more than INR 7000 crores on her statues and nobody gives a fuck, India sends a space mission for less than 10% of that amount and everybody is making a fuss!! By the way, 2G scam in India was INR 1,70,000 crore, making some math we can send more than 300 such Mars missions by that money!
In fact, India had rejected the British aid in June, 2012 saying it's peanuts. Don't believe me? Source: Read this article from the famous UK news media : India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph. How about this - India itself has allocated donation of US $1.3 billion in 2013-14 to Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and various other poor countries for reestablishing and restructuring them thereby strengthening our Asian ties and influence. This is growing by around 10% every year.
All this to make you realize that you are talking about a paltry amount of money even by Indian standards.
Why space missions are important?
In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth.
He replies back with a response letter (If you want to read his full response letter, you can read it here: Why Explore Space? ). To keep it short, the point he made was, science is an investment that takes time to bear fruits, but when it does, it's a big leap towards the better future of mankind.
He also sends a photograph of Earth taken from the Apollo-8 mission. This photograph is also my personal favourite. This is a real pic guys, this is our beautiful mother Earth. In this photo I see my dear home in the wild darkness of space. This photo tells me who has gifted me this life. Who I am indebted to the most?
You have seen a sunrise, now look at the Earthrise above :)
What people misunderstand?
Here's another thing that is important to mention. People forget that ISRO is in the business of launching satellites. And it's a boon to many developing countries because ISRO launches satellites at 10% of the cost that of NASA or Europe. A successful mars mission will deepen the trust in ISRO & it's command over the space technologies.
How space science has helped India to save lives?
In 1999, when India was struck by the Odisha cyclone (also called Paradip cyclone) more than 10,000 people died, homes and livelihood of more than 45,000 were destroyed. Source: Wikipedia: 1999 Odisha cyclone. India didn't had enough number of satellites in 1999 to detect this cyclone. Fast forward this by 14 years. On Oct 13th 2013, yes last month, a cyclone hit Indian east coast again with equal speed and vigour (Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/1
Real Reason why India is sending the Mars Orbiter Mission
So if all this doesn't convince you & you don't care about the Indian lives saved, we are doing this Mars mission for the following reasons..
Peace! :)
The guardian UK: India Mars Mission to launch amidst overwhelming poverty
The Economist: How can poor countries afford space programme?The CS Monitor : India's Mars Mission - worth the cost?
CNN : Is India's Mars mission the latest escalation in Asia's space race?
India's Mars Orbiter Mission, something that not only India but the whole mankind should be happy and excited about has sadly faced some illogical views from questionable intellectuals across the world. But I'm happy to observe that none of them belongs to any scientific community of any country.
Let's get some facts together.
The aid of US$343 million from UK is peanuts.
India is a $1.5 trillion economy. The aid of US$343 million from UK is peanuts. The profit one single UK company Unilever makes from its India business is $3.4 billion that is 10 times that aid. (Source: Wikipedia Hindustan Unilever ) I suspect the inter-country aid business can be related to business contracts one country gets from another, a lot goes into politics that the common man, including the poor UK taxpayers don't know about. I mean seriously, do you think $343 million, a meager INR 450 crore is a big amount for India?
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh spends more than INR 7000 crores on her statues and nobody gives a fuck, India sends a space mission for less than 10% of that amount and everybody is making a fuss!! By the way, 2G scam in India was INR 1,70,000 crore, making some math we can send more than 300 such Mars missions by that money!
In fact, India had rejected the British aid in June, 2012 saying it's peanuts. Don't believe me? Source: Read this article from the famous UK news media : India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph. How about this - India itself has allocated donation of US $1.3 billion in 2013-14 to Bhutan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and various other poor countries for reestablishing and restructuring them thereby strengthening our Asian ties and influence. This is growing by around 10% every year.
All this to make you realize that you are talking about a paltry amount of money even by Indian standards.
Why space missions are important?
In 1970, a Zambia-based nun named Sister Mary Jucunda wrote to Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, then-associate director of science at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, in response to his ongoing research into a piloted mission to Mars. Specifically, she asked how he could suggest spending billions of dollars on such a project at a time when so many children were starving on Earth.
He replies back with a response letter (If you want to read his full response letter, you can read it here: Why Explore Space? ). To keep it short, the point he made was, science is an investment that takes time to bear fruits, but when it does, it's a big leap towards the better future of mankind.
He also sends a photograph of Earth taken from the Apollo-8 mission. This photograph is also my personal favourite. This is a real pic guys, this is our beautiful mother Earth. In this photo I see my dear home in the wild darkness of space. This photo tells me who has gifted me this life. Who I am indebted to the most?
| Who I am indebted to the most ? |
You have seen a sunrise, now look at the Earthrise above :)
What people misunderstand?
Here's another thing that is important to mention. People forget that ISRO is in the business of launching satellites. And it's a boon to many developing countries because ISRO launches satellites at 10% of the cost that of NASA or Europe. A successful mars mission will deepen the trust in ISRO & it's command over the space technologies.
How space science has helped India to save lives?
In 1999, when India was struck by the Odisha cyclone (also called Paradip cyclone) more than 10,000 people died, homes and livelihood of more than 45,000 were destroyed. Source: Wikipedia: 1999 Odisha cyclone. India didn't had enough number of satellites in 1999 to detect this cyclone. Fast forward this by 14 years. On Oct 13th 2013, yes last month, a cyclone hit Indian east coast again with equal speed and vigour (Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/1
Real Reason why India is sending the Mars Orbiter Mission
So if all this doesn't convince you & you don't care about the Indian lives saved, we are doing this Mars mission for the following reasons..
- India needs more land for more slums and drains. We deeply believe Mars is going to be useful for that.
- We want to invade and colonize for a change. We didn't invade any country in our history of 2000 years, because our aims are high. We don't bother about paltry things like invading a country. We believe in invading planets.
- We almost have all the religions and castes in the world. We are looking for new minority (Martians) to treat badly.
- We deeply believe in "Astrology-applied-to-mar
riage" science and especially how Mangal (Mars) sitting in the Kundli affects the marriage prospects of young Indians. We want to see whether there are some Martians too having problems in their marriage because of the positioning of the Earth.
Peace! :)
