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Wait, 454 crore is 83 million dollars? That _is_ amazing! That's like 8 pebble watch projects on Kickstarter. "An engineer is someone who can do for $1 what an
by xyzzy123 14y ago
Wait, 454 crore is 83 million dollars? That _is_ amazing! That's like 8 pebble watch projects on Kickstarter.
"An engineer is someone who can do for $1 what any damn fool can do for $2".
India has a ton of great scientists and engineers, and I agree this is a mission the nation should be proud of.
- kamaal 14y agoChicken Feed ain't it. What's more the moon mission(Chandrayaan-1 http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/faqs.htm http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/faqs.htm) cost just $76 million. Its sequel Chandrayaan-2 is budgeted to cost around 425 crores(News sources). Here is one more link, ISRO's total budget is JUST 3% that of NASA - http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-03/india/28126856_1_chandrayaan-1-missions-orbit http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-03-03/india... Next time around you will be hearing US government outsourcing its space projects to India :) [That was a joke, obviously]
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- negamax 14y agoThe two day strike currently taking place in India is said to have resulted into loss of ~25000 crore..