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Jackdaws , I think now there is no sense replying to your GREAT POSTS anymore as now you seem to be on your TROLLING best, but anyways, i'll give it one more try:
Do you have the source for these "many NRIs working in NASA started coming back to there motherland & applying for ISRO instead" -
I knew this question is coming the minute i'll write that point, i had not provided a source doesn't mean that i am talking BS, the only reason i din't back-up my point with a source is that i was unable to find it than.
I read many stuffs, obviously i can't make a library of everything i read, can i??? As it is, Chandrayaan mission was a 2008 mission, so i had read it some 4 years back.
But anyways, this should satisfy you i think:
Chandrayaan inspires overseas Indian scientists to return - Bangalore - DNA
how many is "many" - I'd love to know their names and their designations in NASA.
And do let me know the names of the "many" NASA guys who switched to ISRO.
Now, I would have avoided using this word, but your asking me these details is clearly - IDIOTIC at best
Do you think i maintain Computer records of ISRO??
Once again, I reiterate - my point is not to question ISRO's technical prowess - kudos to them for their achievements.
Next - this gem - "The people questioning the worth of a Mars or a Lunar mission are clearly short sighted, as certainly we will not have an immediate impact but in 20-25 years when entire humanity will be thinking on lines of colonizing/utilizing the resources of Moon or Mars" - humanity has been thinking about it since the end of WW2. Except of course, there is the small matter of no oxygen on Mars.
Yes it was a GEM really, but i don't think you got the point.
As are many, so you are also skeptic of it, but does that mean Govts. world over stop being ambitious??
When the people were still getting accustomed to 2nd gen fighters in the WW2, Germans were into making rockets, i agree they din't get the benefits of it but the same V-2 tech. was utilized by the Americans to send there own astronauts to space, which clearly is a gap of 20 years.
Chandrayaan mission has found water on moon apart from mapping nearly entire surface of the moon & mars mission is basically for finding methane present on it's surface, don't you think these experiments will be helpful in the future when our resources will be under a severe pressure from population explosion, do you really think that current resources are enough to serve 8+ billion people in years to come???
As moon & mars are the nearest space objects, we can only aspire to reach them & use there resources.
As i said, nothing can be build immediately the source of ISRO's current success can be easily traced back to the launch of sounding rockets in the 1960s, which made no sense than, right?? But after 50 years we are reaping the benefits of those experiments.
If there is a genuine rationale for colonizing Mars - then the technology that we need to invest in is not sending Missions to Mars but developing modules where humans can survive in a Mars simulated environment - right here on Earth.
& can you pls explain to me how can you make those so called "MODULES" without knowing/analyzing how are the conditions on the ground at that planet???
IA makes it's war strategy only after analyzing the threat posed by the enemy by utilizing information provided by UAVs, AWACS, Sats, etc. do you think without it they can make plans??
Will not IA be taken by surprise when the actual war comes???
The same purpose will be served by these missions.
So - besides jingoistic chest thumping, a Mission to Mars achieves little.
Now, that is your Individual Opinion, i don't buy that, ISRO is a professional organization with nearly 10k scientists & engineers working on a very small budget (as i said $1.2 billion or 0.06% of Indian GDP), they are the CREAM of Indian scientists, do you really think that they will plan a mission just for EGO BOOSTING??
Besides, for every mission planned they have to get approvals of the Bureaucrats sitting in New Delhi, & for one i would like to use this sentence - THAT THEY ARE THE BEST BANIYAS that India has, they will never support a mission which is Costly & serves no purpose just for Chest Thumping.
+ I am not a scientist that i know every tiny detail of what purpose this mission serves, but the one organization in India that i can trust blindly is - ISRO, & they have literally earned this trust.
+ I am out of this thread, as always a good Indian Space related thread has been ruined by the same people (from our neighborhood, immediate & extended) with the same rants & not the technicalities of the matter at hand. They clearly are JEALOUS of the strides that ISRO is making off late.
I have no more expectations from Mods here either.
PEACE.