India attempts to reach Moon but indians are still bickering

Its interesting as to how people think and how the environment around one shapes one's viewpoint and perspective. ISRO, the premier indian space agency has one more feather in its cap when it launched Chandrayan today (10/21/2008). Its bettering the art of space technology by gradually moving from one orbital to the next with ease. Its GSLV, PSLV, the commercial launch of satellites of many other countries and carrying multi-payloads and deploying them successfully into space. I still remember when we used to launch INSAT satellites from Kourou in French Guyana and feel a sense of happiness when things went as planned. Dr Vikram Sarabhai would be a happy man today to see ISRO propel itself into space looking for bettering the art of space technology. He was the father of space technology in India and saw the usefulness of going the space way by launching Aryabhatta and successfully sending India's first satellite in space.

Bettering the space technology is the key to understanding our galaxy and probing the space for alternative fuels, reaching out to lands which could be future human settlements. But this is one side of the story and now if you watch the comments from some other lay people whose contribution is Zilch to the nation, one can see the irony of how people are... and have an idea of how weird people are, how weird are their thinking, how ungrateful one is to one's country

Read their comments below
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Succeed ? What has India succeeded at ? To show the world we are late by nearly 4 decades for the moon race ? For a country that has almost a third of its population below the poverty line, is this expense of billions of rupees justified ? We consistently rank close to the bottom on infant mortality, poverty, illitracy and corruption indices. Can India afford missions to the moon ? Could this money have benefitted a much more deserving population of millions ?

Where have our priorities gone ? The rest of world hasn't even batted an eyelid on this apparent "success". What they do look at are images of the starving millions, people ravaged by floods and disease, a nation under siege by its own people. Shouldn't the government be looking to remedy those images, rather than glorify a moon mission that has no palpable benefits ?
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nothing more than to say that we too ran the race!

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The moon was the aam aadmi's roof till date. Now they are going to check out if it is solid or not..... I agree with the sentiments of people expressing their views here. There is no benefit in this 'me too' philosophy. Ground realities must find real solutions. But how??

The 20 to 50 year olds have to start talking solutions -- on cleanliness, sanitation, drainage systems, clean villages, towns and cities, healthy transportation, civic behaviour, work ethics, employment, food, SECURITY and trust of the citizen in the system we seem to have been sucked into. But again, HOW???

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