Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
How the hell do they manage anything at all? That is 50 cents a day. You can't even buy 2 meals for 1 person in that much money!
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
There are poor people in US too. Does that mean US should stop spending on NASA etc.
True the poor there are relatively rich compared to the poor in some of the Third World countries, but they are still poor compared to their countrymen.
Just dont oppose something for the sake of opposing. Progress has to happen in all situations.
You seem to have peculiar sense of poor people. Poor people feel the need to communicate too. Since they leave their families and travel to different cities, they have to communicate with their families. These people buy and sell things too. They even fish.
These people aren’t the ones to use cellphones to chit chat and gossip. The cells provides them actual service which helps them earn their livelihood.
Here is an article from WSJ that gives you an idea.
Rural India Snaps Up Mobile Phones - WSJ.com
Some points from the article
While the way his family threshes rice – crushing it with a massive stone roller – hasn’t changed for generations, his phone has changed the way he farms. He uses it to decide when to plant and harvest by calling other farmers, to get the best prices for his rice, coconuts and jasmine by calling wholesalers, and to save hours of time waiting on the road for deliveries and pickups that rarely come on time.
“Life is much better with the cellphone,” he said from his rice paddy in the shadow of the new tower. “I bring it with me to the fields and anyone can reach me here.”
Mr. Srinivasa, like close to half the 800 people in his village, uses Idea Cellular Ltd. as it was the first to bring them service. He paid the equivalent of about $60 for his Nokia phone, and spends about $6 each month for service. Like most rural users, Mr. Srinivasa uses his phone to make voice calls – he doesn’t know how to text message or to download emails. On average rural Indians use their phones around 8.5 hours a month, up 10% over the past year.
The story is the same across rural India, home to more than 60% of India’s population of 1.2 billion. China, Indonesia and Brazil also continue to show solid growth in cellphone sales.
In Khairat, a village 45 miles outside Mumbai that is only accessible on foot or by motorcycle, buffalo farmer Mohan Zore makes around $80 a month but figured he still needed a phone once his village got coverage. He doesn’t have to walk into the market to find out the price of buffalo milk, he now just dials friends at the market from his phone. And he can easily call his son from the fields when he is out grazing his herd.
He used to spend 300 rupees and three hours on a bus to visit his daughter and grandchildren. Now he can catch up with them for one rupee a minute. “The phone saves me money,” he says from his mud-walled home, which he shares with his 20 buffalo.
Mr. Zore can afford a phone because Indian cellular services are among the least expensive in the world. Incoming calls are free and making a call usually costs less than 2 cents a minute. Most of the rural subscribers use prepaid cards for service rather than monthly plans, topping up as needed.
Here is another article that tells you how satellite technology helps in fishing.
The Hindu : Andhra Pradesh / Hyderabad News : Remote-sensing helps fishing
Yes in 2012. Not now. So in 4 years you are gonna hit what 560? When your population would be what 2 billion? Hell currently you have only 270 million right now according to that article.
Do you even read what you post?
2012 is not 4 years away. It is just 2 years, 3months and 5 days away. And Indian population is expected to hit 2 billion in 2100 and not in 2 years, 3months and 5 days.
The figures of per capita consumption should not be mistaken for the amount of money an earning member of the family makes. 20 rupees in India is more than enough for 4 square meals a day for a single person.
The figures of per capita consumption should not be mistaken for the amount of money an earning member of the family makes. 20 rupees in India is more than enough for 4 square meals a day for a single person.
skews the figures heavily when compared with international yardstick of below the poverty line. BTW 4 square meals a day still puts you below the poverty line as life is lot more then 4 sq meals/day. or is that the reason why 1000s of kids starve to death each day or 200,000 farmers commited suicide so far?
How the hell do they manage anything at all? That is 50 cents a day. You can't even buy 2 meals for 1 person in that much money!
They just starve to death and becomes one of the statistic
Mobile phone penetration does not reflect the true picture on the ground and is irrelevant.. either way please see the picture as they say a pic is worth a 1000 words. Gives you an idea of afordability and availability of communications technology. It breached 54 percent mark in 2008.
Number of mobile users in Pakistan reaches 90 million - GEO.tv
Now now … why are you getting agitated about the poverty in India … this is about science and technology and you should be proud that Pakistan has also launced ONE satellite into space … honestly … who was the plumber for this one 
There are poor people in US too. Does that mean US should stop spending on NASA etc. True the poor there are relatively rich compared to the poor in some of the Third World countries, but they are still poor compared to their countrymen.
Just dont oppose something for the sake of opposing. Progress has to happen in all situations.
And don't defend something just because it is India. Use your brain for once. Its a simple issue of priorities. The money spent on building those sats and sending them up could have easily been used to build hospitals and clinics to provide medicine to the poor. A better use of money.
hhunaeh we speak for the 40% of the population that does not earn 1000$ a year. That is a bloody lot considering the relative level of poverty. Some one who makes 1000$ a year can afford a cell phone. Someone who makes 20 rupees a day can not.
20 rupees feeds one person 4 meals. What about a family of 4 that earns 20 rupees a day only? That is your 40% that is below the poverty line.
20 rupees feeds one person 4 meals. What about a family of 4 that earns 20 rupees a day only? That is your 40% that is below the poverty line.
are we dealing with a communist......
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
LMAO! I see so I care about the poor and I am a communist. I guess you have no concept of basic human decency.
tbqh I dont think its the governments responsibly to feed anyone.
LMAO! I see so I care about the poor and I am a communist. I guess you have no concept of basic human decency.
this guy should care for basic human decency in his own society first of all.....we can talk of our scintific and overall progress.....what they can talk of....at least one achivement that the world community can appreciate....none!
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
Yeah that is why you are on a Pakistani forum right? Oh yeah and that is also why you don't give a rats ass about the poor.
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
/\/\/\is it a dictation that i should not be on a pakistani forum.....ya...when you talk a lot about us ...i may kindly ask...at least one achievment that you can be proud of...
this guy should care for basic human decency in his own society first of all.....**we **can talk of our scintific and overall progress.....what they can talk of....at least one achivement that the world community can appreciate....none!
who is "we"? “we” has enabled ideological camouflage to be thrown over the naked exploitative reality of political life. "you" didn't do sh*t all to achieve this milestone anymore than I did.
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
It it merely shows how fixated you are on us.
Re: India makes a mark in space 7 Satellites in 1200 Seconds
I don't care about the fixation, as long as the argument is coherent, rational and logical which most of the time isn't.
who is "we"? “we” has enabled ideological camouflage to be thrown over the naked exploitative reality of political life. "you" didn't do sh*t all to achieve this milestone anymore than I did.
The world is a smaller place than what you think. ISRO goes to major engineering colleges and hires the best of the talent available in India. With the number of Indians studying engineering, the 'we' might actually include himself or his friends or college mates.