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India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon
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#162Earlier 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...
I recommend reading about the Three Kingdoms as a starting point.
As for India, look up Pakistan.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will disagree with your views, scientifically we are same race and our genetic differences are insignificant. Our ancestors originated in Africa. Indeed today most nation's are a hotpot of multi-culture, language, colors, food etc. All these difference you talk about came from our tribal nationalistic mentality. Indeed the reason USA and many other countries succeeded is due to openness to embrace diversity. Single…
" the reason USA and many other countries succeeded is due to openness to embrace diversity." - I'd say it was due to a combination colonialism of Asia, subjugation of Africa by the slave trade and world wars recking Europe. By 1950s, USA was already ahead of the rest of the world. Because it was in that position that it was able to attract immigrants which then helped to sustain its position. There are many countrie…
The USA just had a lot of land and a low population. America already had a better quality of life than Europe in the 1700's.
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#164Yay 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.
Always puts a smile on my face when i read a comment from @dang!
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#165It's a good effort by ISRO and it's scientist. Just can't understand why so many countries reinventing the wheels. Space missions should be multi-country efforts continuously as it belongs to all. We should not extend our tribal nationalistic thinking to space. Best scientist can be in any nation and more diverse the group and experience the better chances of success. I know I am just dreaming, but hopefully we can c…
No. We’re different groups of people with different interests, different values, different ideas principles cultures histories views of the world. It’s good for us to be competing to explore space (and in trying to develop technological advantages in general). For countries like India it’s critical to develop their own technologies on this front. Otherwise they’ll remain eternally dependent on America, etc., for acce…
I think if you extend Nassim Talebs ideas of anti-fragile to human societies, the sensible future would be a more loose Federation of (city?) states. Very powerful central governments are undesirable from many, many perspectives. Getting more competing ideas on how to organize society introduces the same free market principles that have been successful for our economies into social structure. We'd have states that are winners and losers, and the losers would pretty quickly copy the winning strategies. You'd also have much less risk of your own government turning into a tyrannical oppressor - the splash radius of such an event would be much smaller.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Considering the recent occupation, house arrest, and disabling of all cellular communications of the entire region of Kashmir, it’s worth considering the possibility that this scientific effort was made for political ends.
And there has been no terrorism in Kashmir since decades, right?
The existence of terrorism gives you the right to invade?
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#167Here's [1] a data graph of the Doppler curve from Dwingeloo Radio Telescope (based in Netherlands) showing the exact moment the probe crashed into the surface of the moon. https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1170072672266592256
Any RF experts in here kniw what that cirrus cloud effect on the center transmission could be?
Good view here: https://twitter.com/cgbassa/status/1170069055140765700?s=21
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#168Is it considered "nationalistic flamewar" when people comment that maybe certain countries shouldn't even try to explore space? Just asking.
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#169Is it considered "nationalistic flamewar" when people comment that maybe certain countries shouldn't even try to explore space? Just asking.
Yes. There is no country that couldn’t use the funds to solve humanitarian problems, and there are no humanitarian problems where money is the only solution.
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#170Is it considered "nationalistic flamewar" when people comment that maybe certain countries shouldn't even try to explore space? Just asking.
Yes it is. Those comments will be voted out. Asking this question in a separate thread is feeding the trolls. We as a community should know and act better. I am downvoting above comment as well.