India's mission to Moon
India's mission to moon was much celebrated in India and other parts of the world as well. The 20 billion dollar project was awaiting approval for more than 2 years. The satellite boasts of cutting edge technology and high end transmission capability. In this hour i was just wondering does a poor and developing country like India needs it badly? There are more socio economic problems there than studying about moon, to add to it this is not the first time a country is on a mission to moon, several other countries like US, Japan and Russia have already done so. In this post i would like to draw a clearer picture about this.
India has an independent space research organisation known as ISRO which stands for Indian Space Research Organisation. Throughout its decade long of existence, it has won quite some achievements in the past and being a citizen of India I am proud to be a part of all these moments of triumph. This post is not about criticizing the moon mission, but i feel it is not a high time yet for such things. Besides, a collaboration with other countries would have been more cost efficient and the money thus saved could have been utilised for more useful things. In my opinion, a grass root level addressing of the problems such as literacy and population explosion should have been given priority.
High amount of pollution in big cities and traffic regulations eases the life in this planet rather than trying to study whats is happening in moon. I am not totally against the idea of this mission, and i agree it creates more knowledge and opportunities in the future, but a country like India could have waited a little longer.
Readers, this is a little bit controversial idea and the debate can move on and on. Feel free to express your ideas through your comments.
5 comments:
This is just another sign of the changing world economy. In years past it was USA and USSR, but now China and India are becoming more important in the global market. With their huge populations, they are definitely forces to be reckoned with.
I am admittedly a huge critic of a nation spending billions of dollars on space exploration. I am critical primarily because of the world AIDS crisis.
How can any nation invest so much money into these projects when AIDS could be wiped out with the same dollars? Finding out whether or not there is snow on Mars seems ridiculous when something like AIDS is pushed onto the backburner.
I am not sure if it has to do with the leading economic nations' ignorance about what AIDS is? Or if it is just that passive attitude towards things considered ‘foreign.’ I tend to believe it might be a combination of the both.
I believe many nations – even Canada – believe that AIDS is no longer an issue because we know so much about it now. Yet the resurgence of the AIDS virus among the gay community in North America should be enough of a red-flag indicating the problem has not been resolved. It seems like the world’s leaders are in a state of denial.
So I absolutely hear what you are saying. How can a leading nation like India afford money for space exploration, when there are so many greater problems affecting the country’s citizens at home? Perhaps the leading pencil-pushers are near-sighted.
Cheers Anitha
-Hawk
hi Hawk!
so no scientific experiment in the name of health crisis?
we cannot make all people morale and so only you can control AIDS only you can
let experiments happen
cheers An
Thanks for your response Jennifer.
To answer your question:
I suppose I feel it's rather witholding for nations like Canada to hold a solution and the resources to solve the problem, yet not do everything in their power to help.
Perhaps it is because the threat to an entire population of people is coming from something microscopic, and not from a particular person. I see it as essentially genocide. A genocide that absolutely will be - and is - borderless.
As for experimentation, I am not against it. I am against experiments for experiment's sake. Why are we trying to figure out if Mars is hospitable? We are never going to make it there if the entire population is ravaged by AIDS.
I am not saying stop all research entirely. If we did not spend money on research there would not even be AIDS treatments.
I am suggesting a greater amount of surplus dollars should be used for social betterment in the third-world.
I know we can not make all people morale, but its a nice thought no?
Cheers
-Hawk
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