Recent content by kadamba-warrior

Yep. If Gujarat, the citadel of BJP, going to the wire is any indication, BJP will have to slug it out to the last vote. The last thing BJP wants at this point before 2019, is Congress survival in one more major state. Deve Gowda is no option for BJP at all. His personal rivalry or not, I...

And oh, please! That is rich coming from a guy whose country only recently sent a rover to Moon. I don't think you can claim that China has ACHIEVED it all and hence justified splurging on Moon rover. And that's not bragging (including China's Moon rover mission). Think of it as a kind of a...

After all, what is the point in sending man to space - let alone to the Moon or to the Mars? Robots can do everything that humans do - faster, longer and in a better way and far more cheaply than it takes humans. Because it enhanced our understanding of the conditions there and our own...

You give the impression of somebody pretending to be asleep. Up until the 90's, typhoons used to kill, quite literally, tens of thousands of people on India's east coast - every single year! Now with India's dozens of Remote Sensing Satellites monitoring our skies, the casualties has been...

Do you realize you answered your own question? Here: Not having a space program didn't help you fight poverty and many other countries around the world - faster or otherwise. So why villainize a flourishing space program when you know from your own experience that spending on space program is...

Not at all excited about this. Government was better off strengthening & streamlining public hospital & primary healthcare infrastructure while increasing the number of doctor/nursing schools rather than incentivizing corporate greed in healthcare. Massive Health Insurance programs like...

This is exactly why you can't take these clowns seriously when they talk about secularism!

Apples and oranges, mate! It was indeed a grave mistake to let off Sonia Gandhi, Ahmed Patel (and the likes of A. Raja, Kalmadi, Mallya and others). Also, BJP was not really proactive in getting Lalu sooner before he damaged BJP's prospects in Bihar! But the point is there is nothing that BJP...

Sense of stability? And obviously, you have the breakdown on how many were actual tourists and expat Indians visiting, don't you? Even if it were an expat Indian visiting, why should he be not counted as tourist? You produce a foreign passport with a tourist visa, you are counted as a tourist...

Irony dies a death by 'thousand cuts' when Pakistanis, fresh from their celebration in other threads of the death of Indian soldiers killed by their own insurgents, come to this thread riding their high horses of morality, to shed their tears for the same soldier not getting land for funeral...

With just 2 years left for Delhi Assembly elections, I think the best thing to happen for BJP would be if this bunch of 20 is left to continue with a mere slap on the wrists. Just expose the hypocrisy of AAP/Kejriwal loud and clear and let them continue. The disqualification will only make...

Idiotic! I don't understand the need to make changes like these that only seem to add to people's miseries, while doing nothing substantive. Passport is a very important document used for address proof in India. Government seems to want AADHAR to be used as address proof but I don't think...

Perhaps, my usage of the term "Parking" orbit may not be entirely accurate here, but I am only referring to the temporary physical location of the spacecraft immediately after it is ejected out by the launch vehicle before it's final place of deployment. I am fully aware that an interplanetary...

I have no illusions about the complexity involved and like I said, ISRO knows better. I also know in a limited way how satellites reorient themselves after deployment in an initial parking orbit that include both static (using solar panels for drag over course of months) and dynamic methods that...

I am sure ISRO knows better, but I thought a gap of about 2-3 seconds between each satellite ejection, would have all but ensured that there would be no collision between them. I suspect such a spacing would also ensure more economic burning of their internal fuels used up for the evasive...