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

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• SGG@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why is this even a comparison? India only went to the moon, interstellar had to go to other freaking solar systems and a black hole to make their documentary!

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• CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Cool.

  The average income in India is 25x ish less than that of the US. If we scale the $75 million cost to land on the moon by 25 times, we get $1.8 billion. The Perseverance rover’s cost is estimated at $2.75 billion and that thing landed on Mars.

  It’s incredibly impressive that India has landed on the moon on their 2nd try. Nothing should take away from that, and India should be very proud of their achievement. But geez this is a braindead article. Yes, poorer countries can pay people less do the same amount of work as someone in another country.

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  • dejf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I respectfully disagree with you. It’s a bit misleading to compare average incomes like that. I would assume the income disparity is nowhere near as large for valuable scientists and engineers working for a national space program. In addition, you are only comparing labour costs. Some materials can be cheaper in India, but certainly not by a factor of 25 and certainly not all of them. Therefore, I wouldn’t say the article is braindead.

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    • AureumTempus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This comparison is predicated on every part of the manufacturing process occurring in each country. As soon as India are buying parts from other countries they’re not paying India prices anymore

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah but interstellar went to a black hole and back

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• wabafee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aside from different approaches I think the biggest factor is salary difference. Still impressive though a good example for other Asian nations.

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• Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These titles are dumb.

  “NASA’s 1969 moon landing was with a computer that can’t even power Doom!”

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did you know scientists created ways to use crabs as logic gates?

    Someone calculated we need about 8 billion crabs in order to run Doom.

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    • zavivo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Now that is scientific fact. There’s no real evidence for it, but it is scientific fact.

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    • DudePluto@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They did surgery on a grape

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    • Player2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that was the amount to store the files for the game, not actually run it.

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• wahming@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we not have the hundred identical stupid jokes in the comment section like we did in reddit?

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  • SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s a human thing not a Reddit thing

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  • marmo7ade@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can we not compare a science fiction film about traversing entire solar systems and fucking time travel to landing on the…moon?

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• sugarfree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I prefer Interstellar.

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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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    • 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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• orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Bollywood should start filming on-site.

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  • TurboDiesel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah. The bad CGI is what makes it so so good

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    • anlumo@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But consider the low gravity dances!

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• HikuNoir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some houses cost less than Indian space agency spent on getting to the Moon? That must be a typo right?

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  • afunkysongaday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes and it’s incredibly annoying to me. More. Some houses cost more than Indian space agency spent on getting to the moon.

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I mean, it’s still a valid sentence. Some houses do cost less. We’re just defining the word some so loosely it’s almost insulting.

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• vreraan@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  But Interstellar had a box office of $715 million.

  The astronautics is a very expensive sector but with completely uncertain returns on earnings.

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• scmstr@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s almost as if doing this first, half a century ago, and, pardon my culturism, but probably less recklessly AND in a higher cost of living country would be substantially more expensive.

  But still, a genuine congratulations to India and everybody that worked on that project.

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  • wahming@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You’re probably being downvoted because nobody is drawing any comparisons to the Apollo missions, except yourself. You’re defending a point nobody else is making.

    The only cost comparison to other space missions I’ve seen is a one liner from the article which compares it to a current day Falcon launch. Which is a reasonable comparison and data point.

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  • Pipoca@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They put a rover on the moon.

    This is much more similar to the Mars rovers than to Apollo. Those were still much more expensive than this was. Although for understandable reasons like cost of living in US vs India and salary differences.

    Manned missions are more expensive in part because humans and human life support is really heavy. The Saturn V is still the most powerful rocket ever launched. Those things were expensive.

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