As we all know now, it was eventually left to the Indians to save the planet from the perils of global warming. We found water on the moon, there go your droughts.

Like poverty today, in a few years the food crisis will be a thing of the past. Renowned scientist, Y S Rajan, who along with Kalam wrote the incredibly optimistic book, India 2020: A vision for the new millenium, prophesized: “I am really very happy to know that the NASA payload on Chandrayaan-1 has traced water. If it is true then it will pave the way for growing vegetation in moon surface in five or 10 years from now.” Even though he doesn’t trust the scientists who claim that there is water (understandable, considering the Pokhran II debacle in political circles today), he’s sure that farmers all over India will take up this opportunity and grow sugarcane and what not on the Moon surface. Schedule and booking details later.

Now that we’ve found water on the moon, it’s up to India to spend millions of dollars into training and sending manned missions to the moon. Also, considering the farmers will have started their farming by then, they could very well build a community of Indians there, name streets after Patels and Singhs and cricketers, one lane to Gandhi, create dams, and basically, spread the hindu word.

Another leading scientist, who wasn’t involved with the project, but was deemed too important to not be woken up from his sleep for a comment blew further wind to Chandrayaan’s sails: “Yes, we are very happy. I was not part of the mission so cannot give technical details but yes, the discovery is very significant. It is great and very important”. All this with the customary Indian sideways nod, 2 per second.

All in all, the world’s hope lies on our shoulders and we’ve started on the right foot.

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