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2007-10-27 India-Pakistan
Pakistan wants equal access to space technology
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Posted by john frum 2007-10-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Words fail
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-10-27 00:14||   2007-10-27 00:14|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious  2007-10-27 00:23||   2007-10-27 00:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Do I detect a very slight sense of entitlement? I think the world should access to those demands, I mean, because, you know, pakistan has brought so much to the world.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-10-27 00:30||   2007-10-27 00:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, I'm deeply committed to "my" objectives of never letting you near this shiny stuff.

Maybe we'll let you have the Jihadi Launcher.
Posted by danking70 2007-10-27 00:39||   2007-10-27 00:39|| Front Page Top

#5 WTF is this "equal access"? Get your own dirt!
Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-27 00:47||   2007-10-27 00:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Wait a few years and, I'm sure, Indian Space Force will be more than happy to deliver you a small asteroid.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-10-27 01:44||   2007-10-27 01:44|| Front Page Top

#7 What do we get in return, a shitload of rugs?
Posted by Raj 2007-10-27 08:15||   2007-10-27 08:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Spacefaring folks need to be in at least the 20th century.
Posted by Bobby 2007-10-27 08:39||   2007-10-27 08:39|| Front Page Top

#9 Tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurbs In Space!
Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-10-27 10:21||   2007-10-27 10:21|| Front Page Top

#10 How bout we create the worlds largest ball of elephant dung and let it enter orbit ontop of pakistan? Sounds like a more reasonable idea.
Posted by Mad Eye Thrineger4793 2007-10-27 11:38||   2007-10-27 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Both an exaggerated sense of entitlement and of grievance against major powers.

Pakistan lost its geostationary slots because they never used them. You either launch your own or have someone launch birds for you.

They managed to save the last slot when they purchased Palapa-C, a failed satellite written off by the insurance companies and then resurrected by Hughes. Renamed Paksat-1, this bird is only partially functional.

At the time of the purchase in 2002, Perv bizarrely claimed that Pakistan was way ahead of India in space technology.

With just one satellite, Pakistan has a surplus of transponders. The have no need for the bandwidth. Amazing when one considers their economy and population size.

The Indian heavy launch vehicles must be really causing heartburn to the Paks. The impending Indian lunar probe mission is further distress.

The fact that India paid its dues, and spent decades building launch capability is lost on the Pakistanis. This technology must now be given to them. Presumably the UN will also control space launches.

Paks need to learn that you have to crawl before you can walk.

The Indians crawled...






Posted by john frum 2007-10-27 11:49||   2007-10-27 11:49|| Front Page Top

#12 Actually, there is a need for some kind of order to orbital spaceflight, along the lines of the international conventions of air travel, and for the same reasons.

Since almost all of it is unmanned, and far from perfect, even a single satellite with an unstable or wobbly orbit can be a real pest. For example, what do you do if the computers tell you a high probability for a collision in 1,232 orbits?

It means you have very little time to either correct or destroy one of them, which could cost upwards of $300M.

Even more likely is the mountain of "space junk" that is floating around up there. Eventually it is going to have to be policed up, something that has been on the back burner since the 1980s.

All told, there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed.
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-10-27 11:54||   2007-10-27 11:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Sounds to me what they really want is an end to ITAR so they can get more reliable nuclear-payload-capable rockets.

As if they haven't been the beneficiary of enough overlooked violations in that department.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-10-27 11:55||   2007-10-27 11:55|| Front Page Top

#14 there are a lot of issues that need to be addressed.

True... but giving Pakistan heavy lift capability is not one of them...
Posted by john frum 2007-10-27 12:06||   2007-10-27 12:06|| Front Page Top

#15 Great pics, John, thanks.

The Paks are real good at demanding stuff, and far less good at making stuff on their own ...
Posted by Steve White">Steve White  2007-10-27 12:29||   2007-10-27 12:29|| Front Page Top

#16 If Allah wanted the Land of the Pure to have it, they'd have it already. Guess he doesn't, so all your whining is blasphemous. Go whack yourselves
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-10-27 13:42||   2007-10-27 13:42|| Front Page Top

#17 Pakistan is an Asian cess pool. Only Afghanistan is a worse hole.

The very fact that the UN yields a sense of empowerment to gutter entities, manifests its need to dissolve.
Posted by McZoid 2007-10-27 14:36||   2007-10-27 14:36|| Front Page Top

#18 And why is this in the non-WOT section?

Pakistan will get equal access to space technology the day Laura Bush puts on a hijab.
Posted by KBK 2007-10-27 15:10||   2007-10-27 15:10|| Front Page Top

#19 Pakistan is looking at India, thier new exploration program, and the heavy lift rockets it is developign to start its own manned space program. And pakistan knows it cannot match India.

Thats what that is all about
Posted by OldSpook 2007-10-27 20:43||   2007-10-27 20:43|| Front Page Top

#20 well, if they continue on their current path, they'll be the recipient of Indian Rocket technology...well, at least the final stages
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-10-27 20:48||   2007-10-27 20:48|| Front Page Top

#21 Even more likely is the mountain of "space junk" that is floating around up there.

And that load of "junk" gets bigger everyday,with those who are meeting Allah in person.
Posted by Slappy 2007-10-27 21:08||   2007-10-27 21:08|| Front Page Top

#22 Spacefaring folks need to be in at least the 20th century.


125 I.Q.
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100 I.Q. <- You must be this smart to enter space
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75 I.Q.
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50 I.Q.
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25 I.Q. <- Pakistan
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0 I.Q.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-10-27 21:24||   2007-10-27 21:24|| Front Page Top

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