Agni III and GSLV.

Anti Gravitaional Miracle.

All that goes up will come down. This principle is well understood by the Indians and they have proved it umpteen number of times. Their unrelenting effort is a clear testimony of the fact that the Indians will not take anything lying down. Instead, they throw everything to winds and then try to catch up.

The recent success (some may call catastrophe); in putting the Geo-synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV FO2) in its rightful place, Bay of Bengal of course, is a clear demonstration of our Scientists outlook. Not many hours before this success (read catastrophe, if that sounds more comfortable) Agni III, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile, took a nosedive into the Bay of Bengal. The 3,500 kms ballistic missile is meant to target Mainland China, but with a slight self-propelled trajectory crashed into Bay of Bengal. The Defense Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee is too modest and summed up the whole fiasco as a ‘Partial Success’ and trying to draw lessons from it.

Actually, the Bay of Bengal seemed to be the favorite destination for all the SLVs, GSLVs and now the missiles. This can help the Indian Government save lot of money.

All the defense establishments should focus on Bay of Bengal and not on countries lying beyond our reach, both by land and air. Then if we want to launch any of the missiles and target the countries, better we do it close at the border. If the mission fails and the missile falls, as is happening, it will fall in either China or Pakistan as targeted and save the humiliation of digging for the debris in Bay of Bengal.

All the satellite launch vehicles hereafter are thrown into Bay of Bengal as and when they are ready and not push them into the space. However, of course if the launch vehicles prefer to act detrimental to the laws of gravitation and shoot up into the space, just as it happens in case of inflation, it would be an achievement by default. We can say ‘all that falls will shoot up’.

The wastage of huge amounts in the name of ‘experiments and learning lessons’, as perceived by our politicians is nothing but a disintegrating explanation for abusing public money. The colossal 150 crores for building the GSLV and 96 crores for fabricating the INSAT-4C, and about 200 crores on Agni III, to frighten china, can be best used for educating people in India.

Shall we learn our lessons today?