Monday, October 22, 2007

Angkasawan is Back!!

Our angkasawan has completed the 11 day trip to ISS, and touched down safely on earth.


This trip to the ISS is sadly a waste of government's money. In the press, it is said that the training program is sponsored by the Russian government. However, Malaysia had spent up to almost 100 million in this program. What do we get from it? Singapore has also spent 100 million on the airbus A380, and upgrading airport. This may cause a boost in the tourism and business sector, generating income for the government. We may get some glory for sending a Malaysian to space, but then what is there to be proud of? We are using Russian technology to go to space, and the rocket is not even built by Malaysian. The Russian are not afraid that we will emulate their success in sending people to space by learning their technology. Do u know why? Look at our national cars. The car engine is manufactured by Mitsubishi, and we are merely repackaging it. Since the first Proton Saga in 1985 and we haven't build our own engine. I wonder whether we will ever make our own engine. The experiment conducted by the angkasawan is not useful, as the outcome has already been experimented in the past and what we are doing is merely repeating them.

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