Do You Like Our Rocket

[youngmafbog]

Well we must have paid something towards it!

http://news.sky.com/story/1164028/india-mars-probe-mangalyaan-blasts-off

[Zeuhl]

How long before there's a Corner Shop on Mars?

[jno]

very nice, much better than wasting money on aircraft carriers.

[Zacs-Master]

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Well it is bonfire night.

[Baldric]

Zacs,
Would April 1st have been better timing after all the Aid we've
given them!

[jake-the-peg]

£45.5m

Blimey how did they do it for that?

That works out at about 300 yards of HS2

[ludwig]

Apparently it allows them to get to Mars 20 minutes quicker as well, so it's money well spent.

[ludwig]

I bet when they communicate with it they get a message saying "Thankyou for calling Mangalyaan. You are currently [6th] in the queue. Please hold as your call is really important to us".

[Zeuhl]

Apparently it's not about the time it takes to get to Mars

- it's all about increased capacity

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// very nice, much better than wasting money on aircraft carriers. ///

Why we are not thinking of helping to provide aircraft carriers for them also out of the £200m we already give them.

Also marvellous, how much some councils spend on Diwalii celebrations when some are scrapping their Guy Fawkes celebrations due to lack of cash.

[Zeuhl]

^ great steve

Them Wallasey people are so stuck-up!

[Gromit]

We have given a bit of aid to build a few classrooms. The US have given $18billion for defence. I'm guessing the US taxpayer has paid for this rocket.

[ludwig]

// We have given a bit of aid to build a few classrooms //

According to the article British aid was worth 200Million. Were these classrooms made with solid gold bricks?

Whatever, they did refer to it as 'peanuts' not long ago, so I guess they won't miss it when it's phased out in 2015.

[mikey4444]

Is there anything more daft and offensive about a country like India wasting billions of dollars sending a rocket to the moon, instead of dealing with the appalling poverty in its own country ? I heard Mark Tully live on the Beeb this afternoon, making a pathetic attempt at defending this madness.