India rethinking its moon-landing plan...

Daily Times

They probably planned to send a male and female astronaut. The male astronaut would chase the female astronaut around, singing at her the whole time. She would playfully evade his advances (but not by much) and sing back at him. When he finally catches up with her for a some tender, sweet moon-lovin', about 300 other astronauts would appear from behind the craters and rocks for a huge dance number.

I think they should have just skipped the dance number and sent two blokes. Much cheaper that way.

What's the likleyhood that someone actually landed on the moon? What are the chances it's fake?

Yes, I know I'm into the conspiracy theories.

well, chances the moon landings are fake are approximately as high as chances the moon you see at night in the sky is fake.

Haven't they got small problems like shit on the streets and abject poverty to get rid of before they even think of looking skyward?

@jeremy - that's an argument you can use to hold off any kind of scientific advances. Sometimes a long term view is better than short term problem solving.

Agree though that a moon landing is a little far fetched for India at the moment.

Someone has been watching a lot of bollywood?

China shouldn't be going to space either. I was in Hong Kong when China sent the first guy into space. We all prayed that the spacecraft wouldn't fall apart. Things that are 'Made in China' never come with warranties for a reason.
They showed clips of 'space training' and I swear they had a guy with a motorcycle helmut seat belted to a real office chair duct taped (real duct tape!)and hooked up to a thing that functioned like mechanical bull. It was embarrassing.

Were you referring to the USA or India at this point?

When I was in Mongolia I also saw a Russian space suit.

Brought the meaning of the word "gebastelt" to mind.

Well if the US idea of having a moonbase ever works out, they are going to need a place for a decent curry!!

@Toronto - nothing against duct tape! When you work in research that's the way to do things when prototyping. My work here in the labs is covered with duct tape to get it stabalized.

@VDB
its kind of ghetto to show duct tape on tv to 1.3 billion people. kinda made us doubt the guy was coming back.

Zero!


Poo doesn't run through streets in the US, and the American household in "poverty" makes the relative equivalent of the average Greek or Portugese household. Alas poverty levels in the US and Uk are pretty comparable. What is the UK doing with all that extra money that they don't spend on space?


I actually prefer the overall design of the modern Russian Orlan suit to the US EMU suit. The US suits are supposedly easier to move around in and I guess that's what really matters (once you've got air and stuff obviously) though.

@ Toronto

Bollywood is hysterical! I love it! As for the Chinese space program... it is pretty much a rip-off of Russian hardware, software, and operational philosophy. It works, but it's 30 years behind the times.

Bollywood IS hysterical. I especially love it when its a tragic scene, and the dying person will get up and do a whole sing and dance with his murderer and entourage. Hey...it's a guilty pleasure. I've never seen a sci-fi bollywood movie tho...

no, probably drives an SUV. no-one goes on foot over there...

@ jordingo

Snooze...

Cooler:

[img]http://felix.unife.it/Root/Bilder/hubble/hubble-040310-5.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/0/10075248.jpg[/img]
[img]http://helios.augustana.edu/astronomy/int-space-station/destiny-iss-sts98.jpg[/img]

Actually, there are loads of people living on the street in the US that collect over $10/hour just sitting there with a cup...


OMG...don't do that! You almost made me simultaneously pee my pants and blow cookies out my nose!

reckon that would make a best-seller. All kind of aliens swinging around on indian music

@DW - don't show off with the hubble telescoop and the space station, that are European projects as well, as you know very well yourself ofcourse.

@DW Not sure how you read it but I took the picture that jordigo posted to be ironic. The Blair government's second biggest waste of money.

@ VDB


Not showing off at all!! My point is the UK is not contributing to ISS or Hubble!

ok, didn't know that. Bloody Brits never seem to participate in the European union .

The UK has a thing against manned spaceflight, and the $$ for Hubble is almost all American (shared a bit though).

The UK should cancel its campain to bring the 2012 Olympics to London and send me to Mars instead.

Ooh, can I come? I've always wanted to go to mars...[img]http://www.gargaro.com/mar2.gif[/img]

Sure, I'm sure we could do with a US subsidy. And some US know-how. And and and...

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell, and there's no one there to raise them if you did.

And all this science I don't understand, it's just my job five days a week.

A rocket man, a rocket man.

indeed