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Skybird 10-22-08 02:01 PM

India joins the club
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7679818.stm

Two years around the moon.

SteamWake 10-22-08 02:37 PM

:rotfl: :rotfl: Holy Cow ! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Skybird 10-22-08 02:47 PM

"India today announced a plan to land a holy cow on the moon in 2011."

bookworm_020 10-22-08 05:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Skybird
"India today announced a plan to land a holy cow on the moon in 2011."

The little dog will follow shortly after!:D

kurtz 10-22-08 09:20 PM

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The mission is expected to cost 3.8bn rupees (£45m; $78m),
From the same website

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Gordon Brown has announced a new package of development aid for India, worth £825m over the next three years.


So Brown has taken money off me and given it to India to spend on a moonshot, why not cut out the middle man?

Diopos 10-22-08 10:35 PM

The theory was that labor intensive industry would move to the "3rd" world (lower wages) and that "we" would keep the high tech end of it.
Yeah right!

:up: for India. Expecting more...
Time to refresh your hindu guys. Your next job interview will be in New Delhi. :yep: That is if they want us! :o

kurtz 10-23-08 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Diopos
T.
Time to refresh your hindu guys. Your next job interview will be in New Delhi. :yep: That is if they want us! :o

Oh sweet revenge I can man a helpline and be totally rubbish at helping:x

Skybird 10-23-08 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by kurtz
Quote:

The mission is expected to cost 3.8bn rupees (£45m; $78m),
From the same website

Quote:

Gordon Brown has announced a new package of development aid for India, worth £825m over the next three years.


So Brown has taken money off me and given it to India to spend on a moonshot, why not cut out the middle man?

Wekk, China still gets developement aide, too. And they will get even more money in the name of motivating them to establish emission-low and emvironment-protective production facilities.

What not only costs our money, but gives them our technology that in economics they then use against us.

One should leave it to give them the filter-technology, and let them pay for it, refusing to buy their products from normal production. But no...


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