[News Bot]

The ISRO plans to take the first step towards a possible manned mission to the moon

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[wladicus]

Originally Posted by News Bot

The ISRO plans to take the first step towards a possible manned mission to the moon

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Well now it is starting to look like a real race to the moon compare to previous decades.
The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a satellite launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999. It was named in honor of Indian-American physicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Not sure where the name for this latest moon launch vehicle Chandrayaan-1 comes:
but according to Wikepedia it is in reference to Chandra:

... the Hindu moon deity.

Any other quesses?

[Goku]

Wikipedia has is right Walt. Chandra is indeed regarded as the Hindu moon deity.

-- Goku

[Blackmirror]

You going to apply Goku
do you fancy setting foot on the moon
I know i would

[Goku]

I do fancy walking on the moon but I don't think I could stand the extensive training program astronauts are put through. Someday, when the technology might become available for the common man...

-- Goku

[Blackmirror]

I wonder what the future will bring Goku
Trips to the moon for a holiday

[Goku]

Thats what we are building, aren't we?

But in the current circumstances, I doubt whether there is any future for us?

-- Goku

[Blackmirror]

Be a bit boring
no sea sand or ice cream

The view would be worth it

[wladicus]

Just looking at the craters on the moon through my telescope is enough to cause my breath to catch. It is an awe-inspiring sight. Have often thought of how the previous moon walkers really felt when they saw the grandeur of a rising 'half-earth' as I have only seen in the photographs they brought back to earth.
All the science fiction novels I have ever read as a young man seem to be comming to life these last 50 years.

[evilfantasy]

Maybe they are setting up tech support for the space lab....

Outsourcing??

[wladicus]

Originally Posted by evilfantasy

Maybe they are setting up tech support for the space lab.... Outsourcing??

Good One! But maybe they can do it with much less 'red tape' than the USA.

[evilfantasy]

What could go wrong?

[Albert Lionheart]

Getting a bit crowded up there isn't it?

[wladicus]

Ministerium consultatorium rerum technicarum tibi gratias agit quod vi cavisti

... is that something like "Techie thanks you for your consultation no matter what the results may be (or no guarantees)"?

[Albert Lionheart]

Sort of, well yes!
Time to change it now you have worked it out!

[wladicus]

I might be wrong but possibly the vicavisti should be 2 words vi cavisti
What dictionary are you using? Couldn't find vicavisti but found cavisti.

[Blackmirror]

Latin Phrases
lots there

[wladicus]

Thanks BM. Don't really have the time to go through this kind of listing. But thanks for thinking about it for me. Albert is probably more effective at this Latin - I wonder, does it come natural to him?

[Albert Lionheart]

Not natural - just like the potential for being really rude - you know, like naughty words and innuendo - in another language in public. Learned Latin at school and hated every moment of it - now I wish I had paid more attention. In truth, that pretty well sums up my education.

[wladicus]

Originally Posted by Albert Lionheart

Not natural ... - now I wish I had paid more attention. In truth, that pretty well sums up my education.

Just about the same story for most of us I would imagine. A 'few' years after the fact I realize what "I could 'ave/probably should 'ave done".