Kudos to India for even trying. While they are trying to put a probe on the moon, we have a President going through dementia arguing about a 2 week old weather forecast.
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#132Kudos to India for even trying. While they are trying to put a probe on the moon, we have a President going through dementia arguing about a 2 week old weather forecast.
While they are trying to put a probe on the moon?? We sent actual people there 50 years ago! And they did not crash on the moon. What do these people all have in common? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked... They are all American.
Came at a Yuuuuge price. The Appllo program claimed several lives even before the first probe launch. Recommend watching “The First Man” for accurate portrayal. Also the difference in budget between the NASA program and ISRO program is Apples one quarter earnings. Just saying
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#133Kudos to India for even trying. While they are trying to put a probe on the moon, we have a President going through dementia arguing about a 2 week old weather forecast.
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Perspectives on evolution vs. devolution? But agreed, we are digressing.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
> aside from the Chinese and India Do you know how many different empires, rulers, internal wars and government systems China and India have gone through in 2000 years, and how many "races" and "cultures" they have?
> Do you know how many different empires, rulers, internal wars and government systems China and India have gone through in 2000 years, and how many "races" and "cultures" they have? Yes. Still more homogeneous and stable than most other empires...
India is called a sub-continent for a reason. Its extremely diverse in race, languages, culture, climate, religions,genes etc. Definitely more diverse than Australia and probably more diverse than Europe.
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#135What do we think went wrong? I expect maths to be right but there was a comment somewhere about the regolith with fine particles whose specific composition could have caused unexpected dust clouds as the lander sped to the ground ... how was this tech different from the other 3 successes?
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#136Yay India’s great at trashing even the moon
Nationalistic flamebait will get you banned here. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and don't post like this to HN.
Edit: it looks like you've been posting quite a few unsubstantive comments to HN generally. Could you please not? We're trying for a bit better quality level than internet default here.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
While they are trying to put a probe on the moon?? We sent actual people there 50 years ago! And they did not crash on the moon. What do these people all have in common? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked... They are all American.
50 years ago we walked on the moon. This year we're not. _They_ went to the moon, built the interstate system, subway system, etc. _We_ are barely maintaining what we inherited.
We are maintaining what we inherited just fine. Blue Origin and SpaceX are leading the way on making space actually accessible at a reasonable price.
US is doing just fine.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
While they are trying to put a probe on the moon?? We sent actual people there 50 years ago! And they did not crash on the moon. What do these people all have in common? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_walked... They are all American.
Came at a Yuuuuge price. The Appllo program claimed several lives even before the first probe launch. Recommend watching “The First Man” for accurate portrayal. Also the difference in budget between the NASA program and ISRO program is Apples one quarter earnings. Just saying
When you're rich you can afford the huge price tag.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
>"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." It's mostly a matter of cons…
For what it's worth, many of the impacts don't seem to be well-reported in popular media. Consider this 2013 NASA report[0] on its socio-economic impacts: an IMPLAN input/output analysis shows NASA directly generates $2.60 of economic output per dollar spent, compared to the federal non-military average of $2.30 and military average of $2.00. This often-quoted 1975 paper[1] posits a 14:1 increase in GNP resulting fro…
It's not at all clear that NASA has paid for itself in economic benefits to the civilian economy. Most analyses are sponsored by NASA. To the extent that it has had benefits, most of these could be obtained from the satellite programs, scientific programs like Hubble, and unmanned robotic mission. The manned spaceflight is a largely useless program that has huge operations costs beyond the R&D costs.
IIRC, at one time the early development of integrated circuits was boasted as a spinoff of space programs. However, it turned out to be a spinoff of classified missile programs by the Air Force and Navy.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Came at a Yuuuuge price. The Appllo program claimed several lives even before the first probe launch. Recommend watching “The First Man” for accurate portrayal. Also the difference in budget between the NASA program and ISRO program is Apples one quarter earnings. Just saying
When you're rich you can afford the huge price tag.
The successful walk had many human lives lost not just money.