Doc wrote:Why should this be a sobering situation for the US AZ ?Heracleum Persicum wrote:.
NYT : India Sends Orbiter to Mars, On a Shoestring
NEW DELHI — An Indian spacecraft affectionately nicknamed MOM reached Mars orbit on Wednesday, beating India’s Asian rivals to the Red Planet and outdoing the Americans, the Soviets and the Europeans in doing so on a maiden voyage and a shoestring budget.
An ebullient Prime Minister Narendra Modi was on hand at the Indian Space Research Organization’s command center in Bangalore for the early-morning event and hailed it “as a shining symbol of what we are capable of as a nation.”
“The odds were stacked against us,” Mr. Modi, wearing a red Nehru vest, said in a televised news conference. “When you are trying to do something that has not been attempted before, it is a leap into the unknown. And space is indeed the biggest unknown out there.”
Children across India were asked to come to school by 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, well before the usual starting time, to watch the historic event on state television.
The Mars Orbiter Mission, or MOM, was intended mostly to prove that India could succeed in such a highly technical endeavor — and to beat China. As Mr. Modi and others have noted, India’s trip to Mars, at a price of $74 million, cost less than the Hollywood movie “Gravity.” NASA’s almost simultaneous — and far more complex — mission to Mars cost $671 million.
$ 74 million cost India to go to Mars
Well, folks , that a sign of things coming .. America must become competitive with India .. no reason whatsoever an American
NASA engineer making $ 150K a yr when same engineer making $ 15K a yr in India .. 1:10 wage disparity correlates with $74:$671 cost of mars mission for India/USA
Sobering situation, Doc, Monster
Let's see what our in-house scientist says, CS you have the mike
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Interesting, seems no bells ringing with you, Doc, when India does with $ 74 million what cost you $ 671 million to do same
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I think it is great.
yes, it is
Why should Chinese be upset about this ? ?Doc wrote:
Now of course the Chinese might be upset by all of this.
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China and India now good friends .. and .. China as economical competitive as India .. wages for top Chinese Engineer competitive with Indian
Issue is wages for American engineers, they waaaaaaay overpaid compared to India (or Chinese)
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Getting to Mars is really hard
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True .. proof Indian engineers as good as your's .. in fact , they probably better as they had to do it on a shoe string budget what makes things much more challenging
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