India just landed on the moon!

mmmmmmmm meanwhile....back in the seething throng of India's major cities...people are hungry, dirty and poorly housed.

Big woo. Their entire country is an one latrine.

[quote] mmmmmmmm meanwhile....back in the seething throng of India's major cities...people are hungry, dirty and poorly housed.

Well they have to put all those billions of people SOMEWHERE.

No better place than the moon.

An open latrine I meant

There are plenty of poor people in the US but we've spent billions on the space program

Somewhere, Putin is gnashing his teeth. I wonder how his rocket scientist is doing in the hospital.

The world’s most insufferable braggarts, even more than Americans. We will never hear the end of it.

Great work now send Modi.

Great.

Now they can turn the Moon into a stinking cesspool of filth, too!

[quote]we've spent billions on the space program

Which one, the Indian space program? India is the world's top beneficiary of aid.

Injuns on the moon? Not on MY watch!

Will they be opening a Qwikee Mart up there?

I am available!

I found a grub under a rock today and the whole family shared it.

Did it take a wrong turn on the route to the Ganges?

If India can afford moon missions perhaps it's time to rethink the foreign aid budget

It's a Vimana!

Are they opening a call center?

How many kms of access to sewerage and running water could that have funded back home?

Well I offer them my sincere congratulations.

The Indian Space Agency got some very beautiful photos from the South Pole of the moon.

Rover unloading from space craft.

It would be for the better good of humanity if one could land at Mumbai or any other Indian airport and not have the smell of shit flood the plane when the doors are opened.

But that’s just me - maybe I’m too fussy.

Thank you...come again

India is the first country to shit on the moon

That's great buddy!

This is a wonderful and historic achievement for India. Well done.

For all of you bitching and moaning about "filthy India" please fuck right off. I'll wager none of you have spent significant time traveling and living in India. There's more to it than a crowded city, you morons.

Little boys and girls in India need things to dream about, being an astronaut and traveling through space is a wonderful dream. Just because a country is poor doesn't mean their imaginations and aspirations should be dismissed and ignored. There are some future Indian Space Rangers who had their lives changed tonight.

Don't be such cunts.

R21, that's an old video from 4 weeks ago! it's a FAKE video.

DOA. They cant get the thing to wake up.

Great. We'll never get the curry smell out.

Have they murdered the man in the moon yet?

The man in the mood is a lady --Mame.

The man in the moon is a BITCH.

Wow, they've really enhanced the graphics in Galaga since I last played it on my NES 30 years ago!

Someone just needs to get that lander in touch with 'Richard' in tech support in Mumbai. He'll get that bitch up and running.

That’s what that smell was.

Have they tried rebooting! 🤣😂🤣

The good news is that they landed on the moon.

The bad news is that they were trying to get to Nepal.

There's more hope in India colonizing the moon than the Brits.

R26 I have worked in India (primarily Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai) as well as travelled in the north (Kashmir and Kolkata) and the south - Kerala. If I’m a cunt for pointing out that India is filthy and would be better off providing clean running water and basic sanitation for its population then I’ll own it.

And don’t get me started on many of the people.

Have you been there, btw?

I’m surrounded by Indians. The food is really delicious but I have no desire to go there.

“Thank you India, Thank you terror, Thank you disillusionment!”

Travel is a breeze, just jump on a train and go.

India has had enough of Trudeau's bullshit

Is this where they'll send the Untouchables?

The crew can now stretch their legs.

R41 "how about getting off of these antibiotics?" did she need to be on them after coming back from India? (Traveller's diarrhea)

Imagine, landing a whole country on the moon! During WWII my father was in the Merchant Marines and said India was filthy. Have no idea what it's like now. Perhaps someone who's actually been there can comment on this.

Yes, R39, I lived there for many years, btw. If that's all you've been able to see and understand in whatever length of time you spent in India then you have my sympathy for your tremendous loss.

Not at all, R48 - I think that India has an amazing history and culture, but the fact remains that many of its problems such as massive numbers of homeless shitting in the streets would be better addressed rather than vanity projects such as moon landings.

You're entitled to your opinion, it just happens to be wrong.

Carry on.

Gosh, thanks for the dispensation, R50! It’s interesting how you haven’t been able to describe why and how I’m wrong, which speaks volumes.

Carry on yourself.

Do I owe an anonymous online stranger who allegedly worked in India and learned nothing from it some kind of explanation for having had a different experience? No, I don't.

You are entitled to your opinion in all of its wrongness. I will no longer be chatting with you, perhaps you'll find someone else to offend and annoy with your insane bullshit. Bon chance!

This astounds me.

Indians should be pissed about that. They have a lot of very sever problems and their stupid government spends money on this shit?

Space exploration is beneficial.

I agrees space exploration is quite beneficial. If India keeps it up they someday might develop memory foam, pens that write upside down, or freeze dried food.

Rep 56: and Tang!

Good for them!

I'm so glad they beat the sour, dour Russians.

Right, R52 - you owe me nothing, of course, but your inability to defend your stance defending India’s leadership’s capacity to ignore walking ankle deep in the faeces of the Untouchables while marching to a widescreen TV to watch a “moon landing” tells me all that I need to know about you and about the country that you are so poorly trying to to defend.

Carry on.

Shamefully and Shameless when the utter poverty is worse than Dickensian. What do they need to know about the moon that more urgent than feeding their own people. Humanity at its worst.

Talk about priorities. Maybe try to tackle basic hygiene and sanitation first.

Comes off as a little try-hard, tbh.

Poor R59. Have nice lie down and try to get over the shock of someone having a different experience of India than you did during your short time working there. You'll also have to get over someone viewing space travel differently than you do and someone seeing the people of India in a very different way than you do. Poor thing.

I don't have to defend it and I won't lower myself to do so. Anyone who has spent years in India knows that you're assessment is limited, offensive and smacks of what at best is narrow-minded and at worst is blatantly bigoted. One doesn't argue with racists or bigots. It's trying to discuss something rationally with an irrational person and it's a complete waste of time. I don't argue with the Klan or the Proud Boys either dear, there's simply no point. I apply the same principle to you.

Carry on.

Will there be gang rapes to celebrate?

I can smell the turmeric sweat from here, eugh. Congrats to them I suppose.

R63 you say that you don’t have to defend it which I completely understand - it’s not easy to defend the indefensible. Which is why all that you have in your intellectual arsenal is “carry on”. No matter how many other words you have to pad out your responses.

If India manages to land a person on the moon in the next decade, your countrymen will still be picking their way through other peoples’ shit and the country will still reek but that’s obviously ok with people like you, which is the problem.

But, as you say - carry on.

Uh-huh. Sure thing, r66.

Carry on.

r66 rephrased

If India manages to land a person on the moon in the next decade ( partially funded by the American taxpayer's charity ) ......

R68 I don’t have a dog in this race - I’m neither Indian nor American. I just call it as I see it. My country could well afford to join the space race, but it’s a matter of priorities.

R29 The airport? You don’t have to land. Shit, we could smell it 20 miles offshore for hours before (not very efficiently) docking in Mumbai.

Glad they got to the moon and a softer landing than the Russians. Like the US and China, there a higher priorities right here on earth.

Yeah going to the moon seems wrong for anybody right now but especially a country floating in shit

I doubt gang rapes are celebratory r64. That's more of a day in day out thing there. Aim higher. Or lower, as it were.

𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫

Rover Pragyan—"Wisdom" in Sanskrit—surveyed the vicinity of the moon's south pole but was powered down before the start of lunar night, which lasts roughly two weeks on Earth.

The Indian Space Research Agency had hoped to prolong the mission by reactivating the solar-powered vehicle once daylight returned to the lunar surface, but so far has been greeted by radio silence.

"It is OK if it does not wake up because the rover has done what it was expected to do," ISRO chief S. Somanath told reporters late Wednesday, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

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Top Chinese scientist claims India’s Chandrayaan-3 did not land in Moon’s south pole: Report

Chandrayaan-3’s rover landed at a latitude of around 69 degrees south, which is within the moon’s southern hemisphere but not the polar region, the scientist said

It woke up. First call home: India spacecraft is dead to me.

Holy Cow!

[quote] It woke up. First call home: India spacecraft is dead to me.

Well if it calls home, India can claim to have a call center on the Moon.