Do India's Space Program and Mars Mission Make Sense?
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Well not clue less, there are 2 more mission planned for now. Gslv MkIII, another PSLV launch carrying navigational satellite....
Dont worry the SAARC one is under construction.....
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I see that you are one of those people whose butt hurts every time India excels. Keep it up. We love to see frustrated Pakistanis.
After blogging about it (here and here) and suffering nationalistic Indians' slings and arrows for years, it's refreshing for me to see an Indian Prime Minister finally acknowledge the serious problem of the lack of hygiene in India.
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Times of India demolishes myths about Indian-American achievements:
On Monday, the Indian government itself consecrated the oft-circulated fiction as fact in Parliament, possibly laying itself open to a breach of privilege. By relaying to Rajya Sabha members (as reported in The Times of India) a host of unsubstantiated and inflated figures about Indian professionals in US, the government also made a laughing stock of itself.
The figures provided by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Purandeshwari included claims that 38 per cent of doctors in US are Indians, as are 36 per cent of NASA scientists and 34 per cent of Microsoft employees.
There is no survey that establishes these numbers, and absent a government clarification, it appears that the figures come from a shop-worn Internet chain mail that has been in circulation for many years. Spam has finally found its way into the Indian parliament dressed up as fact.
Attempts by this correspondent over the years to authenticate the figures have shown that it is exaggerated, and even false. Both Microsoft and NASA say they don't keep an ethnic headcount. While they acknowledge that a large number of their employees are of Indian origin, it is hardly in the 30-35 per cent range.
In a 2003 interview with this correspondent, Microsoft chief Bill Gates guessed that the number of Indians in the engineering sections of the company was perhaps in the region of 20 per cent, but he thought the overall figure was not true. NASA workers say the number of Indians in the organization is in the region of 4-5 per cent, but the 36 per cent figure is pure fiction.
The number of physicians of Indian-origin in the US is a little easier to estimate. The Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has 42,000 members, in addition to around 15,000 medical students and residents. There were an estimated 850,000 doctors in the US in 2004. So, conflating the figures, no more than ten per cent of the physicians in US maybe of Indian-origin - and that includes Indian-Americans - assuming not everyone is registered with AAPI.
These numbers in themselves are remarkable considering Indians constitute less than one per cent of the US population. But in its enthusiasm to spin the image of the successful global Indian to its advantage, the government appears to have milked a long-discredited spam - an effort seen by some readers as the work of a lazy bureaucrat and an inept minister. India rising in US: Govt falls victim to net hoax - The Times of India
On Monday, the Indian government itself consecrated the oft-circulated fiction as fact in Parliament, possibly laying itself open to a breach of privilege. By relaying to Rajya Sabha members (as reported in The Times of India) a host of unsubstantiated and inflated figures about Indian professionals in US, the government also made a laughing stock of itself.
The figures provided by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development Purandeshwari included claims that 38 per cent of doctors in US are Indians, as are 36 per cent of NASA scientists and 34 per cent of Microsoft employees.
There is no survey that establishes these numbers, and absent a government clarification, it appears that the figures come from a shop-worn Internet chain mail that has been in circulation for many years. Spam has finally found its way into the Indian parliament dressed up as fact.
Attempts by this correspondent over the years to authenticate the figures have shown that it is exaggerated, and even false. Both Microsoft and NASA say they don't keep an ethnic headcount. While they acknowledge that a large number of their employees are of Indian origin, it is hardly in the 30-35 per cent range.
In a 2003 interview with this correspondent, Microsoft chief Bill Gates guessed that the number of Indians in the engineering sections of the company was perhaps in the region of 20 per cent, but he thought the overall figure was not true. NASA workers say the number of Indians in the organization is in the region of 4-5 per cent, but the 36 per cent figure is pure fiction.
The number of physicians of Indian-origin in the US is a little easier to estimate. The Association of American Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI) has 42,000 members, in addition to around 15,000 medical students and residents. There were an estimated 850,000 doctors in the US in 2004. So, conflating the figures, no more than ten per cent of the physicians in US maybe of Indian-origin - and that includes Indian-Americans - assuming not everyone is registered with AAPI.
These numbers in themselves are remarkable considering Indians constitute less than one per cent of the US population. But in its enthusiasm to spin the image of the successful global Indian to its advantage, the government appears to have milked a long-discredited spam - an effort seen by some readers as the work of a lazy bureaucrat and an inept minister. India rising in US: Govt falls victim to net hoax - The Times of India
Gandhi G in da house
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I see the fire ignited by Mangalyaan's success hasn't subsided yet 
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Again the rants of a clueless jealous retiree, not knowing what to do with the ample time.
Such delusional people even think that Pakistan is in some kind of space race with India!
This is the fantasy and delusion of such deluded pathetic rondus:
India's success in space is likely to be seen in Pakistan as a threat, or at least a major challenge that they must respond to. Pakistan has a lot of catching up to do to try and reduce the gap between the space capabilities of the two nuclear-armed rivals in South Asia.
Haq's Musings: India Races Ahead in Space
When they can't do what they delude themselves in their day dreams, they come back and start talking about India as if we have something to do with them!
They need to understand we have nothing at all to with Pakistan or Pakistanis. To them their own.
We are doing it for our own sake and it has nothing to do with them.
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Anyway, such threads are no more than a Pavlovian response to very base urges.
No need to take them seriously.
The person knows that if he doesn't obsess about India, no one gives a damn to his pathetic threads.
No need to take them seriously.
The person knows that if he doesn't obsess about India, no one gives a damn to his pathetic threads.
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All thanks to kaffirs?
Anyway, you should know that we look at these things coming from you guys as petty jealousy that is not worth dau kaudi.
Coming from a country that is racing with Somalia (another fellow Ummah country) and many others in a race to the bottom.
You and Pakistan don't have to worry about India or what we do. All we need from you is to not send the terrorists blowing up in our markets. There is zero interest in anything else.
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@Chak Bamu @Horus What has toilets to do in a thread about space exploration ? .If it was an Indian member trolling like this,he wold have been banned.why is this comment not deleted yet ?
Billions ? What kind of non sense is this ?
NASA’s Maven spacecraft arrived at the Mars late on Sunday night (September 21) before India's mission arrived on Mars (September 23)
NASA, ISRO to Share Martian Data
Nasa, Isro in talks for jointly developing satellite for first time
Can you understand it now pal ?
You nailed it bro!!
What is the topic here ? poverty **** ?
Infra ? Did you say infra ?
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I am sorry,but this one got on my nerves.
Can I open a 'Do Pakistan's nuclear weapon development Make Sense?' thread @moderators
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atleast he has the guts to tell our weakness.. Not like you who hides weaknesses and pretend to be a nation that is even better than USA.
And hey idiot..! Do you know a nuclear missile can be used from moon to destroy our enemy?
And for that a country has to get those technology by experimenting not by comparing..
We are doing experiments over experiments and you are doing comparisons over comparisons..
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