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Given the successful landing would've been a political bragging point, could contact have been lost deliberately by people with a different political affiliatio

Given the successful landing would've been a political bragging point, could contact have been lost deliberately by people with a different political affiliation?

Macha 7y ago
A bit like asking would democrats have foiled the moon landing to deny Nixon the credit - I find it hard to believe the scientists who put years into the project would screw it up over a change in political leadership
mayankkaizen 7y ago
I am anti Modi but I so much wanted this mission to succeed. ISRO is the only organization in India which is doing great on global level. It was really irritating the moment Modi turned this mission into his PR gimmick. Had this mission succeeded, the public euphoria would have been something unparalleled. Recently public reactions to Pulwama attack (months of protesting, candle light marches), article 370 issue (people started dancing on the streets when it was removed) were actually terrifying because it showed the rise of maddening extreme nationalism. But ISRO was away from this madness and political agenda. Now Modi has turned his eye on this organization, god save ISRO because Modi has tried to undermine the independence of every other major institutions like Army, RBI, EC, CAG etc.
- bigcloud1299 7y ago
  I call complete utter bullshit on your anti modi hysteria.
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- sbmthakur 7y ago
  Are you implying that rest of the anti-Modi folks wanted this mission to fail? That's somewhat sad. ISRO is funded by the Government and PM heads the Department of Sapce. So, what did you expect him to do? Nod off and go to sleep. It's actually good to have a PM who stands by country's scientists even at the time of failure(and not just at the time of success).
  - mayankkaizen 7y ago
    No, I am not implying that. Read the GP comment. He was asking if that might be the case. You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education. He doesn't even know the difference between Chandragupta Maurya and Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He thinks Takshashila was in Bihar. He has the audacity of telling a bogus "tea made from sewer gas" in IIT. He lied about his DU degree. He believes people in ancient times knew genetics because of how Karna was born (or some bullshit like that). He appointed Smriti Irani as HRD minister who has zero experience. She even claimed she is Yale educated. Modi's followers are hell-bent on revising the history. They have coined the terms like "urban Naxalite", "intellectual terrorists", "khan market gang" and countless other such terms. They are openly anti-secularism and muslim-haters. His followers openly threaten historians, intellectuals, social workers. Even Modi himself is accused of being responsible for murders of so many muslims. He favored Pragya Thakur who is accused of terrorist attack. She openly cursed Gandhi. I can go on and on but it is pointless. These might be casual things for you but not for everybody else. Your hero is demon for other. Your nationalist is fascist for other.
    - sbmthakur 7y ago
      > You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education. Okay. So for you, presence of the PM at an event(with significant probability of failure) which involved tremendous amount of nation's prowess(scientific as well as non-scientific) and that too by the department which directly falls under him is a PR exercise. Thanks for clarifying. Spared me reading rest of the irrelevant detail which probably has nothing to do with Space.
      - mav3rick 7y ago
        What else was it if not a PR exercise ? Was he helping mission control ? IMO leaders should let scientists focus in crunch time. He could have come one day later to give a speech or something.

Given the successful landing would've been a political bragging point, could contact have been lost deliberately by people with a different political affiliation?

Macha 7y ago

A bit like asking would democrats have foiled the moon landing to deny Nixon the credit - I find it hard to believe the scientists who put years into the project would screw it up over a change in political leadership

mayankkaizen 7y ago

I am anti Modi but I so much wanted this mission to succeed. ISRO is the only organization in India which is doing great on global level. It was really irritating the moment Modi turned this mission into his PR gimmick. Had this mission succeeded, the public euphoria would have been something unparalleled. Recently public reactions to Pulwama attack (months of protesting, candle light marches), article 370 issue (people started dancing on the streets when it was removed) were actually terrifying because it showed the rise of maddening extreme nationalism. But ISRO was away from this madness and political agenda. Now Modi has turned his eye on this organization, god save ISRO because Modi has tried to undermine the independence of every other major institutions like Army, RBI, EC, CAG etc.

bigcloud1299 7y ago
I call complete utter bullshit on your anti modi hysteria.
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sbmthakur 7y ago
Are you implying that rest of the anti-Modi folks wanted this mission to fail? That's somewhat sad. ISRO is funded by the Government and PM heads the Department of Sapce. So, what did you expect him to do? Nod off and go to sleep. It's actually good to have a PM who stands by country's scientists even at the time of failure(and not just at the time of success).
- mayankkaizen 7y ago
  No, I am not implying that. Read the GP comment. He was asking if that might be the case. You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education. He doesn't even know the difference between Chandragupta Maurya and Chandragupta Vikramaditya. He thinks Takshashila was in Bihar. He has the audacity of telling a bogus "tea made from sewer gas" in IIT. He lied about his DU degree. He believes people in ancient times knew genetics because of how Karna was born (or some bullshit like that). He appointed Smriti Irani as HRD minister who has zero experience. She even claimed she is Yale educated. Modi's followers are hell-bent on revising the history. They have coined the terms like "urban Naxalite", "intellectual terrorists", "khan market gang" and countless other such terms. They are openly anti-secularism and muslim-haters. His followers openly threaten historians, intellectuals, social workers. Even Modi himself is accused of being responsible for murders of so many muslims. He favored Pragya Thakur who is accused of terrorist attack. She openly cursed Gandhi. I can go on and on but it is pointless. These might be casual things for you but not for everybody else. Your hero is demon for other. Your nationalist is fascist for other.
  - sbmthakur 7y ago
    > You see PM standing by the ISRO (regardless of the outcome of mission) and I see a PM doing drama for PR exercise. Otherwise he doesn't care a bit about science or education. Okay. So for you, presence of the PM at an event(with significant probability of failure) which involved tremendous amount of nation's prowess(scientific as well as non-scientific) and that too by the department which directly falls under him is a PR exercise. Thanks for clarifying. Spared me reading rest of the irrelevant detail which probably has nothing to do with Space.
    - mav3rick 7y ago
      What else was it if not a PR exercise ? Was he helping mission control ? IMO leaders should let scientists focus in crunch time. He could have come one day later to give a speech or something.