[Space] India Lands Spacecraft on South Pole of Moon

Russia...

Spoiler

 

@Os Trigonum @Jontro
@J.R.
we have already seen Indians walking on the moon

 

how will this affect the scam calls i keep getting?

 

I can't believe they were able to curry that one out

 

Very impressive feat for India given where their nation was economically just 40 years ago.

 

I don't know if there's a correlation but I know that NASA is full of Indian engineers now. I imagine there's some cross-pollination of knowledge there that was helpful.

 

Indians are everywhere. I mean there are a billion+ of them. I think it was because the British colonized them and English is a national language. Ultimately it's to our benefit.

 

Eh. Who gives a ****. Not me.

 

They will be in 4k Oled.

 

Cool…. Now build something that can pull 40 tons of carbon from the earths atmosphere.

 

What are they 50-70 years late?

How about working on bridging the largest wealth gap (in the world), caste traditions that deny some of the most basic human rights to some and grant god concessions to others. I think investing in their own people that exist solely to give slums a name would help as opposed to the 37382 trip to the moon..

im all for scientific advancement , but they are no better than Kim starving his ppl while building nukes

 

Not sure what that has to do with what I posted. I certainly wasn't meaning anything derogatory.

Lots of great Indian talent works at NASA, their visas expire, they go back to India, it's a no-brainer for that space agency to hire them, boom, India is on the moon.

 

Aren't those called "trees"?

 

Trees that aren't engulfed in forest fires currently where they are putting all those tons of carbon back into the atmosphere. I prefer my trees not on fire.

 

I joke, but I do see a ton of value in global space exploration for sure. Especially the Mars push which could help solve issues around terraforming tech engineering. If Elon and Bezos want to go to Mars great... I'll help pack your bags.... just leave behind the blueprint for terraforming so that way we can fix the best planet in the galaxy that we already live on.

 

Terraforming planets is a pipe dream for our lifetimes and is 100s if not 1000s of years off. We still have way lower hanging fruit in space to capitalize on, and it starts with low-earth orbit, moon and asteroid colonization, mining and manufacturing.

 

I feel they are overrepresented domestically but it is because globally they're a majority, and the ones who came to the US for the most part were highly educated in a similar educational system (British based vs American based) or their parents were, and it's to our benefit. Two of the GOP frontrunners are Indian. The CEOs of Google and Microsoft are Indians. The UK Prime Minister is Indian. The mayor of London is Pakistani.
We don't see as many politicians or business leaders from East Asia, but I think that's because Japan, China, and the Asian Tigers are much more wealthy and English was not a language they needed to learn.

I am using Indian/Pakistani as a catchall for people of South Asian (India, Pakistan, Bangledesh, Sri Lanka) ancestry. I don't mean they are Indian nationals, although a lot of Indian immigrants hold very high pride for the nationstate of India. These folks have either Hindu or Islamic names and will give their kids those names, and are followers of either religion, and for many even if they're born in the US they still hold onto their customs and culture maybe even stronger than the people who actually live in India. Example: school districts now have diwali as a holiday for the students.