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I hate being this guy, but the euphemism is to "jibe" with, not "jive".
you mean "idiom", not "euphemism".
Touche!
From India, Proof That a Trip to Mars Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank
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#112i see little overlap with sending humans to mars. i dont think its a great way to send people such a distance (and expect to get them back) by cutting corners in planning, redundancy, etc. And its my understanding that the bulk of the costs of going there is getting all the fuel and supplies from earth to there, which is not solved by paying rocket scientists 1000$ a month. NASA already operates on a shoestring budge…
It is so expensive to get all the fuel and supplies from earth to mars precisely because you have to pay a rocket scientist to make a very large rocket
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#113I think the real reason in difference in costs is that in India salaries are much lower and profits expected by 3rd party providers are much smaller. So building and engineering is way cheaper. How about quality?
Indian space program is one of the most reliable (less number of accidents) space programs in the world. Just yesterday Indian successfully launched PSLV to put 5 foreign satellites in orbit. It's 26th consecutive successful flight. It is the most reliable and cost effective rocket in the world right now. Salaries do play a part in bringing the cost down but that is not the only reason. ISRO functions like a very agi…
I had though SpaceX was unrivaled in cost effectiveness but the PSLV is giving them some stiff competition.
(cost and payload numbers from Wikipedia) Cost per kg to GTO: PSLV $10,368 Falcon9v1.1 $11,649 Cost per kg to LEO: PSLV $4,615 Falcon9v1.1 $4,296
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#114At the expense of 50% malnourished children in India http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Every-second-Indian-child-is...
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To me it's not that it's newsworthy or not, but how it's presented. It's not that Americans/Europeans can't do what the Indians did, but that we're not interested in doing what they did. The article seems to confuse the two.
How do you know they can do it, if they never have? "I could do that, I just don't want to" is the lamest excuse in the book.
That is a lame excuse in some contexts.
However, if Superman leaps over an entire building, then is asked to jump off a curb and declines, I think you can safely assume he could do it, but doesn't feel like it.
If I jump off a curb and say I could jump over that yonder building (if I felt like it, but I don't). Then, yes, that would be lame.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you know they can do it, if they never have? "I could do that, I just don't want to" is the lamest excuse in the book.
That is a lame excuse in some contexts. However, if Superman leaps over an entire building, then is asked to jump off a curb and declines, I think you can safely assume he could do it, but doesn't feel like it. If I jump off a curb and say I could jump over that yonder building (if I felt like it, but I don't). Then, yes, that would be lame.
When have any of these agencies ever done the cheap space mission equivalent of leaping over a building?