Comment on India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent

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• rambaroo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Overrated movie. I’ll take real science and progress any day over imaginary nonsense that’ll never happen.

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A world with only “real” science and progress but without any entertainment would be quite boring.

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And fiction has been key to inspiring the next generation of scientists/engineers. So many NASA people have claimed to be inspired by Star Trek just to pick one.

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      • gentooer@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey, but I managed to write software to calibrate µCT-scanners! That is clearly way more inspiring than all this fictional stuff. Right! Right. Right?

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      • scmstr@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        TOS ran 1966-june3rd1969, Russia first landed unmanned in 1959, and the human race through NASA and the Apollo program first landed on the moon on june 20th 1969

        Isaac Asimov was a biochemist born in 1920, started writing published sci-fi in 1939 and full on scifi novels in 1950 (seriously, this stuff was wayyyyy ahead of its time). Died in 1992.

        Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921, died in 1991.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The black hole simulation for interstellar resulted in 3 highly regarded scientific papers.

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  • kenbw2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I really liked the first two thirds of that film before they went into the black hole

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