ISRO

[lloydnoise]

big up India, first attempt, and the whole project had a smaller budget than the film Gravity



http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014 ... ters-orbit

[lloydnoise]

bumping with kewl pictures

https://twitter.com/MarsOrbiter

[OGLemon]

big ups India

[nowaysj]

Bigups. Didn't they release an ipad clone for like $25 a coupla years ago? On the the straight discount level.

[wysockisauce]

I don't understand why space agencies are still separated like this (I guess this goes for the entire scientific community). It's pretty obvious that to achieve something truly groundbreaking we're going to have to pool our resources on a global scale.

I think a single manned mission to mars would be much more valuable than 20 probes/rovers/satellites etc. and probably cheaper too.

[magma]

I think a single manned mission to mars would be much more valuable than 20 probes/rovers/satellites etc. and probably cheaper too.

Definitely not cheaper... keeping humans alive in space attached to a is just about the most expensive thing anyone will ever do. The main difference is you can lose a non-manned mission, so reliability only has to reach 80 or 90% to become 'viable' - human missions need nigh-on 100% certainty. More than half of our probes to Mars to date have been lost.

India get massive ups for this. Huge ups. Gigantic fucking ups. First shot too. Amazing.

Interplanetary space exploration is now in the price range of EuroMillions winners.

[nowaysj]

With the tax dodging off shore cash horde that apple has, they could fund 900 of these missions and still have a couple billion left over for emergencies.

[magma]

In b4 jaydot rant about India still receiving foreign aid.

[Forum]

I don't understand why space agencies are still separated like this (I guess this goes for the entire scientific community). It's pretty obvious that to achieve something truly groundbreaking we're going to have to pool our resources on a global scale.

I think a single manned mission to mars would be much more valuable than 20 probes/rovers/satellites etc. and probably cheaper too.

Living in dreamland if you think the US and Russia would be able to cooperate on something like that

[xtcvsmistycold]

[wysockisauce]

I think a single manned mission to mars would be much more valuable than 20 probes/rovers/satellites etc. and probably cheaper too.

Definitely not cheaper... keeping humans alive in space attached to a is just about the most expensive thing anyone will ever do. The main difference is you can lose a non-manned mission, so reliability only has to reach 80 or 90% to become 'viable' - human missions need nigh-on 100% certainty. More than half of our probes to Mars to date have been lost.

India get massive ups for this. Huge ups. Gigantic fucking ups. First shot too. Amazing.

Interplanetary space exploration is now in the price range of EuroMillions winners.

Still the amount of valuable scientific data we can generate from a manned mission would be orders of magnitude above what we can scrounge up with probes. Maybe its worth it?

Sometimes I feel like capitalism is plunging the world into a second dark age, where if it isn't profitable it isn't considered; even though it gives us an opportunity to learn a great deal about the world around us.

[nowaysj]

I feel like capitalism is

I get your point, but we don't live in a capitalist system.


Also, this price tag is so low, you and other like minded individuals can privately fund missions to other planets that you have an interest in. Have a bake sale, a telethon or two, a few kickstarters, and you're moonwalking on mars.

[wysockisauce]

I get your point, but we don't live in a capitalist system.

I get that we live in a mixed economy, but it's still essentially capitalism, unless I'm missing something?

Also, this price tag is so low, you and other like minded individuals can privately fund missions to other planets that you have an interest in. Have a bake sale, a telethon or two, a few kickstarters, and you're moonwalking on mars.

This is great, maybe someday.

[nowaysj]

This kind of thing is why corporations were started in the first place.

As far as our system, you have the combining of corporations and the state, so we're definitionally in a fascist system.

[RKM]

In b4 jaydot rant about India still receiving foreign aid.

the quicker they all go to mars the happier he'll be

[jrkhnds]

As far as our system, you have the combining of corporations and the state, so we're definitionally in a fascist system.

a fascist system.

I'm not following.