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I am flabbergasted that you were not aware of JAXA. How is this possible. What are people been taught? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA https://en.wikipedia

I am flabbergasted that you were not aware of JAXA. How is this possible. What are people been taught? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
On 9 May 2003, Hayabusa (meaning, Peregrine falcon), was launched from an M-V rocket. The goal of the mission was to collect samples from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The craft rendezvoused with the asteroid in September 2005. It was confirmed that the spacecraft successfully landed on the asteroid in November 2005, after some initial confusion regarding the incoming data. Hayabusa returned to Earth with samples from the asteroid on 13 June 2010.
ygra 8y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ Keep in mind that not everyone knows the same things. Why not just be happy that they learned something?
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  Hmmm. Disturbing. I’m going to leave the post in place but also feel a little embarrassed.
goto11 8y ago
> How is this possible. What are people been taught? For each and every think you know, there was a time where you didn't know it.
- godzilla82 8y ago
  It would be interesting, if you could give a proof by induction!
csunbird 8y ago
Well, to be honest, in my country, we were only taught about the space race to the moon between Russia and USA. I already knew other countries were launching rockets/satellites to the space but I always assumed they are not for scientific reasons.
lordgrenville 8y ago
obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
magduf 8y ago
It's just typical American ignorance about anything outside of America. American schools don't teach much about other countries, except of course what happened in WWII. Most Americans probably have no idea that Japan has a space program, or Europe (ESA), and they'd be lucky to know that China has one, and only then only because their recent far-side-of-the-Moon mission (with cool photo) has been in the news recently.
- adventured 8y ago
  It's inappropriate and beneath HN standards to classify an entire country as being typically ignorant. Such a wild, broad generalization about hundreds of millions of people is impossible to support.
  - magduf 8y ago
    It's not a generalization about hundreds of millions of people, it's a generalization about the public education system in the US, and it's entirely valid. The US consistently ranks at the very bottom of public education rankings of all industrialized nations. This isn't inappropriate, this is supported by reams of research and explains how people in this thread can be ignorant about worldly matters.
    - adventured 8y ago
      > It's just typical American ignorance about anything outside of America That's a generalization about hundreds of millions of people. You were very clear. When it comes to education, according to the PISA, at a 15 year old level of development, the US ranks just behind Norway and ahead of France, Sweden and Austria on science; ahead of Israel and Greece on mathematics and just behind Slovakia; ahead of Spain, Austria and Switzerland on reading and just behind the UK, France, Sweden and Denmark. On reading the US is one point behind the UK, and two points behind France; the UK is 37 points behind Singapore (the top) for comparison of the scale. The US is 20 points behind the UK in mathematics; the UK is 72 points behind Singapore and 29 points behind Switzerland. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students...

I am flabbergasted that you were not aware of JAXA. How is this possible. What are people been taught? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JAXA

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago

On 9 May 2003, Hayabusa (meaning, Peregrine falcon), was launched from an M-V rocket. The goal of the mission was to collect samples from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa. The craft rendezvoused with the asteroid in September 2005. It was confirmed that the spacecraft successfully landed on the asteroid in November 2005, after some initial confusion regarding the incoming data. Hayabusa returned to Earth with samples from the asteroid on 13 June 2010.

ygra 8y ago

https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ https://www.xkcd.com/1053/ Keep in mind that not everyone knows the same things. Why not just be happy that they learned something?

TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
Hmmm. Disturbing. I’m going to leave the post in place but also feel a little embarrassed.

goto11 8y ago

> How is this possible. What are people been taught? For each and every think you know, there was a time where you didn't know it.

godzilla82 8y ago
It would be interesting, if you could give a proof by induction!

csunbird 8y ago

Well, to be honest, in my country, we were only taught about the space race to the moon between Russia and USA. I already knew other countries were launching rockets/satellites to the space but I always assumed they are not for scientific reasons.

lordgrenville 8y ago

obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

magduf 8y ago

It's just typical American ignorance about anything outside of America. American schools don't teach much about other countries, except of course what happened in WWII. Most Americans probably have no idea that Japan has a space program, or Europe (ESA), and they'd be lucky to know that China has one, and only then only because their recent far-side-of-the-Moon mission (with cool photo) has been in the news recently.

adventured 8y ago
It's inappropriate and beneath HN standards to classify an entire country as being typically ignorant. Such a wild, broad generalization about hundreds of millions of people is impossible to support.
- magduf 8y ago
  It's not a generalization about hundreds of millions of people, it's a generalization about the public education system in the US, and it's entirely valid. The US consistently ranks at the very bottom of public education rankings of all industrialized nations. This isn't inappropriate, this is supported by reams of research and explains how people in this thread can be ignorant about worldly matters.
  - adventured 8y ago
    > It's just typical American ignorance about anything outside of America That's a generalization about hundreds of millions of people. You were very clear. When it comes to education, according to the PISA, at a 15 year old level of development, the US ranks just behind Norway and ahead of France, Sweden and Austria on science; ahead of Israel and Greece on mathematics and just behind Slovakia; ahead of Spain, Austria and Switzerland on reading and just behind the UK, France, Sweden and Denmark. On reading the US is one point behind the UK, and two points behind France; the UK is 37 points behind Singapore (the top) for comparison of the scale. The US is 20 points behind the UK in mathematics; the UK is 72 points behind Singapore and 29 points behind Switzerland. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students-internationally-math-science/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/15/u-s-students...