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Misplaced priorities
by Michael Ponnudurai on Jun 20, 2008 02:38 PM   Permalink | Hide replies

What the hell are we going to achieve by going to moon.
Let us provide for free and quality education to all upto school final
Let us ensure proper basic amenities, good roads and other infrastructure facilties for all first
Scrap unfruitful investments immediately. Let us do all things to reduce disparity of living standards and faciltites among people and set forth to bring more equality in terms of status.

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by BIJU KRISHNAN on Jun 20, 2008 02:57 PM   Permalink
sometimes u shdnt be so intelligent that you do not find any reason...!

Actually they are sending a mission to check claims by malayalis that there is mallu tea stall on the moon. Thats where neil amstrong had chaya and payam pori when he went there.

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by jayprakash on Jun 20, 2008 02:50 PM   Permalink
See the energy cruch today. The fossil fuels are not going to last too long. Such missions are undertaken by various countries to assess whether such fuel exists on moon or other planets. Similar activities are done to antarctica as well. So keeping our future energy demand in mind such missions are necessary. It is a great job done by our scientists and We all are pround of them.
I agree with u that our priorities should be different but not at the cost of scientific research. Similar can be said about our defence expenditue. It is mandetory. We can not avoid it specially when we have China and Pakistan as our neighbours. We should try and reduce corruption for e.g. bad quality roads built in first place and repaired again and again. It is a trap. So we should try and release such money (un-necessary expenditure) and develop the country's infrastructure.

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by Jitesh Kumar Agrawal on Jun 20, 2008 02:54 PM   Permalink
Your second part makes some sense but the first part absolute bulls*hit. Sorry for being rude my freind but that what it is.

I can agree for antartica but can tell one thing for sure, no space exploration is done for look out for fuel. How do you think that can be brought back to earth and do you think even if uranium is found it can be just dug up and brought back without processing or will anything will make a economic sense. Think again.

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by jayprakash on Jun 20, 2008 02:59 PM   Permalink
the time will tell who is correct and when countries can send so many space shuttles and bring them back successfully on earth... why cant fuel?

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by Jitesh Kumar Agrawal on Jun 20, 2008 03:03 PM   Permalink
Well we cant be alive till eternity unfortunately to see that happen......still dont tell that to anyone else or you would be a big laughing stock.

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by jayprakash on Jun 20, 2008 03:07 PM   Permalink
People usually laugh when they dont believe. What you think... those who have predicted that you can watch a match played on other part of the world can be seen live on a screen may be 100 years back... people must have laughed.... I am sure.... but.... isnt it a reality?
So nothing is impossible my dear friend

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by Raghu K on Jun 20, 2008 03:13 PM   Permalink
When Columbus & Vasco da Gama attempted to find a sea route to India lots of people laughed at them. And the journey they had was terrible, lot of people died and it was very expensive. But looking back, can you think how this world would have been unless a few courageous souls took such risks?

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by nims on Jun 20, 2008 03:20 PM   Permalink
baate karne se kuch nahi hota
i mean nothing can be done just by commenting
go to the roots work there and see the diffrence instead tht lets us provide education.
why dont u start and make others start lik luk for poor mertious child arrange for there food and education

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