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SUPARCO is Pakistan's space agency, but it lacks independent orbital launch capability. PAKSAT-1R, a communication satellite, was launched by China using a Long

SUPARCO is Pakistan's space agency, but it lacks independent orbital launch capability. PAKSAT-1R, a communication satellite, was launched by China using a Long March 3B rocket in 2011.

pvaldes 2y ago
Well... True, but is a little like saying that USA does not have car makers because China is who really make the cars. Substitute launch by operate if you prefer. Is just an example If Pakistan paid somebody to built them and launch Satellites, reached a technological level enough to operate their own satellites. This is what I'm saying. Or at a level enough to earn a Nobel prize in Physics. Do you know who doesn't have a Nobel prize in Physics? My country. The branch of science that you support will fix the problems that you have in those fields. The problem is that Religious fanatics loathe the truths from Biology, while Physic or Math, either are too abstract to be seen as a menace, or simply enjoyed a protected first-priority status. If your people is dying from a lack of antibiotics because religious hawks block the development of Biology, well... you have what you allowed. Do something about this. Or learn to live with the outcome but don't blame the evil west for not coming to fix your problem while saving your face. We have problems also. Antibiotics research needs support at a government level; nobody wants to do it with their pocket money. Their best chance is to fund a team of people to research Pakistani biodiversity and find organisms that will provide solutions. They will need to put this people on a protected A-priority level status, where they can do their job freely without being harassed or hunted by it.
- adastra22 2y ago
  US does have car makers though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_plants_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_pl... Pakistan doesn't make any of the equipment to send satellites into space. They just make the satellite, and buy a ride from the Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, btw.

SUPARCO is Pakistan's space agency, but it lacks independent orbital launch capability. PAKSAT-1R, a communication satellite, was launched by China using a Long March 3B rocket in 2011.

pvaldes 2y ago

Well... True, but is a little like saying that USA does not have car makers because China is who really make the cars. Substitute launch by operate if you prefer. Is just an example If Pakistan paid somebody to built them and launch Satellites, reached a technological level enough to operate their own satellites. This is what I'm saying. Or at a level enough to earn a Nobel prize in Physics. Do you know who doesn't have a Nobel prize in Physics? My country. The branch of science that you support will fix the problems that you have in those fields. The problem is that Religious fanatics loathe the truths from Biology, while Physic or Math, either are too abstract to be seen as a menace, or simply enjoyed a protected first-priority status. If your people is dying from a lack of antibiotics because religious hawks block the development of Biology, well... you have what you allowed. Do something about this. Or learn to live with the outcome but don't blame the evil west for not coming to fix your problem while saving your face. We have problems also. Antibiotics research needs support at a government level; nobody wants to do it with their pocket money. Their best chance is to fund a team of people to research Pakistani biodiversity and find organisms that will provide solutions. They will need to put this people on a protected A-priority level status, where they can do their job freely without being harassed or hunted by it.

adastra22 2y ago
US does have car makers though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_plants_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automotive_assembly_pl... Pakistan doesn't make any of the equipment to send satellites into space. They just make the satellite, and buy a ride from the Chinese. Nothing wrong with that, btw.