India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar
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Some houses cost less than Indian space agency spent on getting to the Moon

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    • rambaroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1227·
      1 year ago

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

      • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
        26·
        1 year ago

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

        • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
          25·
          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.

          • gentooer@programming.devEnglish
            81·
            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?

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        112·
        1 year ago

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

      • kenbw2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

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