Commented on mark2gp's review
Jan 11, 2007 12:27 PM
What you have brought before us seems, unfortunately, to be true.
It is upto Faisal to take some hard decisions.
I would be very disappointed if Mouthshut takes this review off.
Commented on own review
Oct 21, 2006 08:12 PM
(Updated Oct 21, 2006 09:38 PM)
anish, ashok kumar sharma, sudipto, sagarika, vinayak
thank you for supporting my point of view
KAMINI
I HOPE YOU SEE THE FUTILITY OF USING THE MS PLATFORM FOR SENSELESS VENDETTA
scalpel21
Reviewed Defence Research and Development Organization - DRDO
Oct 20, 2006 03:50 PM
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It is so very easy to blame DRDO and ISRO and caste aspersions on President Kalam’s competence. Unfortunately, we all seem to suffer from loud mouthedness and myopic vision. I read with horror an MS member’s recent diatribe against DRDO, ISRO & President Kalam. I must make it clear at the outset...Read more
Commented on kamini's review
Oct 20, 2006 03:26 PM
At least we did not do any such silly mistake. We are still experimenting with propulsion systems and fuels, and we too shall have sustainable success in the near future. Failures only pave the way for bigger and better successes in the future.
Its time we take pride in our space, defence and nucle...ar programs and encourage our brilliant and dedicated scientists who have committed their careers for paltry government salaries (in comparison to the lucrative private sector) to ensure that India becomes self sufficient in these critical areas. Hats off to ISRO, DRDO and President Kalam.
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Commented on kamini's review
Oct 20, 2006 03:25 PM
You know what the founder of IBM Thomas Watson, observed – “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate. This means learning how to make it perfect: plan what you’re going to do, do it, learn from it, take failures in your stride, make changes, and do it again – round and round through umpteen ...iterations until you make it flawless.” Lets have a look at NASA’s failures: after its launch in April 1990, astronomers found Hubble's 2.4-metre mirror had been ground to the wrong curvature. NASA had to mount a very costly mission in 1993 to install a new set of optics to correct the problem. In just one month of March 1999, NASA lost three space probes worth more than $1000 million! It was catastrophic. The disappearance of the Mars Polar Lander was a major failure for NASA. The lander vanished less than three months after NASA lost its sister spacecraft, the Mars Climate Orbiter, in highly-embarrassing circumstances. The $125m craft, which was to study Mars’ climate, went missing on after a SILLY MIX-UP between imperial and metric measurements. It transpired that one team in NASA had been working in centimetres, metres and kilogrammes, while another was using inches, feet and pounds. The error meant that instead of the craft passing 150 km above the planet's surface it flew at 60 km, and probably burnt up. It was a costly and a colossal mistake. Many Americans rightly castigated the US Govt. in unreservedly vilifying language, but has it reduced NASA’s resolve to forge ahead in its space program.Read More
Commented on kamini's review
Oct 20, 2006 03:22 PM
I do not know whether the acrimonious thoughts you have expressed about DRDO, ISRO and President Kalam are your own or you are just mouthing someone else’s vendetta, I find your review biased, ill researched and ill worded.
US, UK, Russia, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, China and all other nation...s with space and military aspirations have had innumerable failures, with losses running into billions of dollars. India’s space and military program is no exception. We too have our list of successes. And we too have our share of failures. It’s a pity that you seem to have no idea of the complexities involved in a missile or a space vehicle launch. Your conclusion that “all our security and defense system should be out source to better equip nations like USA or China if we want ourselves to be secure from our opponent” speaks volumes of your utter ignorance in defense related issues. You are literally suggesting that we should trust our most dangerous strategic enemy China with our defenses. I can not suppress my bemusement at your pathetic lack of either military knowledge or commonsense. Whom do you see as our opponents then…Pakistan…who is hand-in-glove with China in military and nuclear matters! Or Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and the like…ha..ha..ha!! Perhaps you should know that Japan, which is one of the most technologically advanced nations, has had repeated failures in its space program. ISRO is way way ahead of Japan in this regard. As far as ISRO’s & DRDO’s failure on consecutive days is concerned, no doubt it pained in our hearts to see the projectiles disappear into the Bay of Bengal, the fact nevertheless remains that failures only increase the resolve to succeed in a bigger and better way....contd.Read More
