India landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent
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One of the big cost saving features was not giving their engineers paychecks for the last 17 months apparently....
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Slavery sure is cheap. Good call out.
And the masters take credit for the slaves. Cuz, you know... If people aren't commodities and I treat my workers like commodities, then they must not be people.
Impeccabile logic.
A bad boss hogging all the credit for the hard work their subordinates did, while treating them crapily, what's new?
R u sayin you’ve been stiffed for a year and a half before
Oof. That's embarrassing
Interstellar grossed over $700,000,000 at the box office. How much money will Chandrayaan-3 make?
Just showing how pointless this comparison is.
It's very hard to put a price on scientific advancement like this.
It often involves development of new technologies, talent and facilities that can generate money for decades.
The actual profit generated can be insanely large. Like the original NASA missions. They gave us so much technology. They are likely responsible for billions of future profit derived from the tech.
Worth pointing out that the scientific advancement would generate billions that NASA will only see a fraction of.
Isn't NASA funded by tax payer's dollars? I guess you can look at it as a government funded non-profit research lab that it's mission statement is to generate technological advancements for the general public's benefit.
Indeed. As they are publicly funded that money comes back in the form a taxing the profits private companies make from the technology, rather than directly into their pockets.
It's not an advancement if it's already been done multiple times, just that by other countries
But even training those personnel and building facilities can lead to more breakthroughs later. It's why it's so hard to put a price on scientific endeavours.
Well if they find water there it could make way more
Eh I can get water from my tap, I won’t buy any of that funky moon water.
I mean, if you ignore all the R&D costs up to now, including the cost of the 2 failed attempts that came before. And comparing it to house prices isn't great either, they're comparing the sale price of a house with the cost price of a rocket. It didn't cost £200M to build that house that sold for £200M.
Still though, it's a great achievement, and keeping a relatively low budget is impressive.
Why include R&D up to this point? Do we say Mars Pathfinder (Sojourner) actually cost billions because we include previous Mars missions?
I think it's just a bad article. They throw out numbers but don't say how they got them.
Article ignored all the costs up to that point.
And unlike Russia, they were successful
India landed on the moon.
Russia landed on the moon, too. They just had a few more pieces.
They were spreading their control zone
They were going for a speed record.
Any%
You could say Russian landing was more impactful and groundbreaking
Ba dum tiss
On the second try. First time their engine also over preformed putting them out of the very narrow corridor that their altimeter was expecting. But it looks like India has really overhauled and reworked the code to be much more robust this time.
Wait, Interstellar wasn't a documentary?
Well ya they went to stars that's much more far away to make that. Has no one watched the movie?
Yeah, people always forget that purchasing power is a very important detail when you compare currency economies either in present day or historical contexts.
Why is purchasing power relevant here? They're not talking about how much the country can afford, but how economical they are in achieving their goals.
Oh ok, I see what you mean. People are paid less and things cost less in India, basically.
I have worked with many Indian engineers. They keep going like a fucking train. I felt like they already knew all the about the project even before they got hired.
Have there been any people on the moon other than the Americans back in the day?
12 Americans have walked on the moon, with the last one in 1972. Four of them are still alive. Everything else has been unmanned.
Wow, walking on the Moon is deadly.
One guy did it more than anyone, but he died of a drug overdose.