1) I am not belittling India, but launching 10 lightweight satellites is not really an innovation nor ground breaking tech. The point is our payload is at least two times less than Chinese payload. US do not send 10 small sats at once, but that doesn't mean they can't, it's just that commercial sats weight something like 2-3 tonnes per unit. India was launching mostly research sats weighing less than 100kg.
2) Again, I do not have to repeat myself. It was an AMERICAN instrument that discovered water and prior missions sent by America had already detected minute trace of water. Chandrayaan confirmed it in larger quantities. Shoe string? Half the instruments were from foreign countries...you do the math.
3) Nobody is pursuing thorium because only India has viable reserves near the coast. India is not the leader in FBR and it had not been commercialized yet. The origin of FBR tech? I have no idea, but isn't it a coincidence Russia has it in a more advanced form. If nobody has FBR and India has it, thats called groundbreaking and pioneering. Russia is the leader in FBR and last I read, they are selling their most advanced tech to China in a collaboration to 'commercialize it'.
4) The pioneer of test tube tech was the UK. The first test tube baby was born there.
5) Nationwide reservation ticketing system? I am not sure, but I don't think we were the first, assuming computer were available in the west first. We can claim to be the first and make you happy but logics tell me a different thing.
The Chinese have their own:
1) 3G tech standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-SCDMA
2) Digital TV tech standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMB-T/H
3) Wireless encryption tech standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAN_Authe ... astructure
Do we have any of these? These are not copied tech, but different systems altogether and you know what is shocking, it's all completed and in use! They do not boast before the thing is done.
The truth is, we had not develop any groundbreaking tech, most of our pride stem from the fact that there are many lower cost Indian scientific workers overseas. Now you understand the significance of English? Imagine the Chinese could speak English as good as us and send their scientist in droves to be researchers and lecturers in the West.
Can you tell me what IP India created? Last year China became one of the top 10 patent applicant in the World. Huawei is the biggest patent applicant on earth overtaking Philips.
1. In case you don't know, launching nanosats and microsats is an achievement as well. Injecting 10 different space vehicles is no mean feat under any circumstances.
2.The moon impact probe found water even before the american instrument. Also the the specific capabilities of the chandrayaan with regard to orbital maneuver capability was crucial to the success of this endeavour. Please read the Chandrayaan thread on this very forum for further details.
3.Thorium tech-
India is not the only country with significant thorium reserves or easily recoverable ones. far from it. I have enclosed a table below to give you an idea. neither is it the only one looking to develop it. but thanks to Bhabha's overarching vision and a number of research reactors India has achieved great capability in the fabrication and handling of thorium fuels.
Estimated world thorium resources1
(Reasonably assured and inferred resources recoverable at
up to $80/kg Th) Country Tonnes % of total
Australia
489,000
19
USA
400,000
15
Turkey
344,000
13
India
319,000
12
Venezuela
300,000
12
Brazil
302,000
12
Norway
132,000
5
Egypt
100,000
4
Russia
75,000
3
Greenland
54,000
2
Canada
44,000
2
South Africa
18,000
1
Other countries
33,000
1
World total
2,610,000
For all this and more, you may take a look at -
http://world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.html
Thorium tech in the west was pioneered by Alvin Radkowsky who worked closely with the father of the american nuclear navy- Admiral Ryckover. its the radkowsky design that a company called Thorium Power has patented.
Incidentally this very same company with a new name has signed an MOU with guess who- the United Arab Emirates subsequent their CNA with United States.
germany operated a thorium pebble bed reactor which was even connected to the grid for a while. they would have pushed it further had post chernobyl demonstrations not made them stop.
do you know that China has not met much success with the PBMR ( started in co-operation with South Africa) which is also ultimately aimed at Thorium utilisation?
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By the way , in case you think India is only about English, here's what a former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Siegfried S Hecker had to say-
‘I found that whereas sanctions slowed progress in nuclear energy, they made India self-sufficient and world leaders in fast reactor technologies. While much of the world’s approach to India has been to limit its access to nuclear technology, it may well be that today we limit ourselves by not having access to India’s nuclear technology developments. Such technical views should help to advice the diplomatic efforts with India.
4. have you seen the movie- 'ek doctor ki mauth'? it chronicles the travails of Subhash Mukherjee who pioneered another technique of test tube delivery contemporaneous with the development in the west.
Read this page if you can,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash_Mu ... ysician%29
5. By the way , we were the first with the nationwide ticketing system. westerners who used to come to india, were astonished that they could buy a ticket for a journey that began a 1000 miles away and ten days later.
judging by your comments it is possible you work in the IT domain. However that is not the only place where IP is being created.
IP created in the nuclear arena or in the field of energy is sometimes not publicly visible but far more potent than tweaking a few cellular protocols.