MOM and children

[zootinali]

MOM and other scientific stuff are ok but what I hope is that ISRO build bigger and cheaper rockets and get more business .

 

[HariPrasad]

like China, India is destined to grow a lot( A WHOLE LOT) . Actually, India is eradicating poverty faster than any other country.

We have an aggressive nationalist government in place, i belie that we can do it much faster than anybody would have ever thought of. We are not a poor country but we must ensure that fruits of development do not confined to a small class but distribute across the all class and section of the society by and large uniformly.

MOM and other scientific stuff are ok but what I hope is that ISRO build bigger and cheaper rockets and get more business .

Hi guy,

Effort to build the cheaper and bigger rocket is on. Reusable first and second stage motor rocket is not further than 5 years from now. That will bring down the cost of launch to 20% of the cost present cost of launch per K G of mass which is already the cheapest in the world.

 

[Bobby]

Now Pakistani will tell us ...what to do with our money.....we have poverty and that is our problem.....

you have fun in your rich Pakistan....just ignore us and our Mars feat....thank you

 

[Bobby]

India needs to get its act together if it ever wants to get out of the world dirtiest country status, forget about third world. Funding missions to Mars when 80% of your population open defecate outdoors? When diseases are running rampant in your cities and towns? When 45% of Indians earn below 25 Rs a day??
What do you call this?? Some type of complex I guess.

Yes....India is crazy....leave us alone.....but how come Indian PM gets more attention in US and your PM had to cut US trip short since no body wanna talk to him (may be fearing of him that he may beg for money).....

 

[IND151]

Many of the members here questioned about MOM, and specially @RiazHaq, and want to ask a question, what they give answer to these childrens? And how they want to solve there curiosity about space?

In the recent past, few events from the world of science have captured public imagination so much as MOM. As the nation celebrated the success of the Mars mission, and the greater promise it meant for future space exploration, there was another outcome, perhaps unforeseen, that had unfolded.

Much before MOM went into orbit, children across schools had started their own pet explorations of the red planet. “Why are we going to Mars? Isn’t Venus closer to us?” asked 12-year-old Sneha to her science teacher. That one question lead to a discussion on why Mars is an interesting destination; why it becomes easier to launch a probe to a planet outside of Earth’s orbit...?

“Light takes barely eight minutes to reach us from the Sun, why 12 minutes to communicate with MOM?” a question from little Dhananjay. Before it could provoke a discussion, quick comes the reply from his classmate Uttara: “Because MOM will be farther from us than the Sun when it reaches Mars!”

Recently, after I had finished with a science outreach programme in a school, Aditya, a student of class eight, showed me a report he had prepared on why we should be looking for oxygen and not methane if we are interested in finding life on Mars. That little book of curious research and colourful diagrams he had put together was a month’s meticulous work.

Most teachers and parents would be able to relate to what I just described, a surfeit of excitement among children for space science, triggered by the Mars mission. But what was so special about MOM? Firstly, it was science happening closer to home. Everyone knew at least somebody who was directly or remotely involved in this ISRO mission. That up-close access augmented the excitement. The space research organisation also did a wonderful job of putting information across to the public through social networking forums and press releases.

And when the time came, the media gave it the big push it deserved. The end result was that like every one else, children right from elementary to high school were talking about rockets, interplanetary travel, deep space, search for life elsewhere and a great deal more. They wrote essays on these topics, scribbled poems fancying the red planet, built models of launch vehicles, created presentations on the Mars mission and above all saw a future for themselves pushing the frontiers of space exploration.

Educators and policy makers often split hairs to put in place innovative curriculum plans for schools that foster scientific temperament among children. But the challenge that school teachers who are at the frontline of education face, is in creating an interesting context to engage children in science learning. MOM’s journey to Mars provided just that, a perfect setting where children could explore, observe and make use of the events around them to learn science as opposed to a text book based education. This opportunity to bring science alive in classrooms and to engage children’s imagination and critical thinking is perhaps one of the more far reaching impacts that a big project like the Mars mission might accomplish for the nation’s future. As little Advika, barely seven years old, told me: “I know which planet we should go to next, and I know an easy way to get there!” Sure you do, Advika..

MOM and children - The Hindu

@ExtraOdinary @thesolar65 @anant_s @Indischer @arp2041 @Robinhood Pandey @Roybot @jaunty @Abingdonboy @sancho @Srinivas @gslv mk3 @halupridol @Dash @MohitV @Skull and Bones @acetophenol @IND151 @HariPrasad @he-man @Guynextdoor2 @eowyn @Tridibans @sms @my2cents @neehar @jarves @Assault Rifle @lightoftruth @Rajaraja Chola @Android @nik22 @banvanaxl @OrionHunter @Star Wars @Nair saab @Shardul.....the lion @Indo-guy @Brahmos_2 @desert warrior @gslv @Ashokudu @Badbadman @Mike_Brando @foxbat @oFFbEAT @Urbanized Greyhound @GR!FF!N @Dem!god @Kurama @sourya kharib @zip @wolfschanzze @RKO @ni8mare @Tangent @JD_In @illusion8 @kaku1 @ranjeet @GURU DUTT @rockstarIN @Soms @SamantK @IndoUS @SR-91 @danish_vij @kaykay @Black Widow @StormShadow @Bombaywalla @kurup @raja hindustani @noksss @TejasMk3 @shuntmaster @JAT BALWAN @jatt @INDIC @JanjaWeed @Indrani @Biplab Bijay @janon
@XiNiX @abjktu @Star Wars @Sidak @sankalp

They will succeed.

In the recent past, few events from the world of science have captured public imagination so much as MOM. As the nation celebrated the success of the Mars mission, and the greater promise it meant for future space exploration, there was another outcome, perhaps unforeseen, that had unfolded.

Much before MOM went into orbit, children across schools had started their own pet explorations of the red planet. “Why are we going to Mars? Isn’t Venus closer to us?” asked 12-year-old Sneha to her science teacher. That one question lead to a discussion on why Mars is an interesting destination; why it becomes easier to launch a probe to a planet outside of Earth’s orbit...?

“Light takes barely eight minutes to reach us from the Sun, why 12 minutes to communicate with MOM?” a question from little Dhananjay. Before it could provoke a discussion, quick comes the reply from his classmate Uttara: “Because MOM will be farther from us than the Sun when it reaches Mars!”

Recently, after I had finished with a science outreach programme in a school, Aditya, a student of class eight, showed me a report he had prepared on why we should be looking for oxygen and not methane if we are interested in finding life on Mars. That little book of curious research and colourful diagrams he had put together was a month’s meticulous work.

Most teachers and parents would be able to relate to what I just described, a surfeit of excitement among children for space science, triggered by the Mars mission. But what was so special about MOM? Firstly, it was science happening closer to home. Everyone knew at least somebody who was directly or remotely involved in this ISRO mission. That up-close access augmented the excitement. The space research organisation also did a wonderful job of putting information across to the public through social networking forums and press releases.

And when the time came, the media gave it the big push it deserved. The end result was that like every one else, children right from elementary to high school were talking about rockets, interplanetary travel, deep space, search for life elsewhere and a great deal more. They wrote essays on these topics, scribbled poems fancying the red planet, built models of launch vehicles, created presentations on the Mars mission and above all saw a future for themselves pushing the frontiers of space exploration.

Educators and policy makers often split hairs to put in place innovative curriculum plans for schools that foster scientific temperament among children. But the challenge that school teachers who are at the frontline of education face, is in creating an interesting context to engage children in science learning. MOM’s journey to Mars provided just that, a perfect setting where children could explore, observe and make use of the events around them to learn science as opposed to a text book based education. This opportunity to bring science alive in classrooms and to engage children’s imagination and critical thinking is perhaps one of the more far reaching impacts that a big project like the Mars mission might accomplish for the nation’s future. As little Advika, barely seven years old, told me: “I know which planet we should go to next, and I know an easy way to get there!” Sure you do, Advika..

MOM and children - The Hindu

@ExtraOdinary @thesolar65 @anant_s @Indischer @arp2041 @Robinhood Pandey @Roybot @jaunty @Abingdonboy @sancho @Srinivas @gslv mk3 @halupridol @Dash @MohitV @Skull and Bones @acetophenol @IND151 @HariPrasad @he-man @Guynextdoor2 @eowyn @Tridibans @sms @my2cents @neehar @jarves @Assault Rifle @lightoftruth @Rajaraja Chola @Android @nik22 @banvanaxl @OrionHunter @Star Wars @Nair saab @Shardul.....the lion @Indo-guy @Brahmos_2 @desert warrior @gslv @Ashokudu @Badbadman @Mike_Brando @foxbat @oFFbEAT @Urbanized Greyhound @GR!FF!N @Dem!god @Kurama @sourya kharib @zip @wolfschanzze @RKO @ni8mare @Tangent @JD_In @illusion8 @kaku1 @ranjeet @GURU DUTT @rockstarIN @Soms @SamantK @IndoUS @SR-91 @danish_vij @kaykay @Black Widow @StormShadow @Bombaywalla @kurup @raja hindustani @noksss @TejasMk3 @shuntmaster @JAT BALWAN @jatt @INDIC @JanjaWeed @Indrani @Biplab Bijay @janon
@XiNiX @abjktu @Star Wars @Sidak @sankalp[/quote]


They will succeed.

 

[gslv mk3]

A poor, backward, third-world nation like India where half the children are stunted has no business spending money on space exploration.

A poor,illiterate nation like Pakistan shouldn't waste its money on Nuke Bombs,should it ?