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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  • ludEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

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

    • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
      29·
      10 months 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
        101·
        10 months 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?

        • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
          71·
          10 months ago

          You bet your bippy that’s inspiring! An un-calibrated scanner just doesn’t hit the same way.

          Based on the way specialized code is used, your calibration software will still be in use when they open the first scanning facility on the Moon.

          Hope you accounted for the Y10K problem!

          • gentooer@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            10 months ago

            Thing is that AI can help. My SO worked in a firm that does skill extraction from CVs and job ads. They do really cool stuff to match job ads with CVs using EU skill tags! It’s a really good tool to do specific things, so I really hate all the latest articles about LLMs.

            • meyotch@slrpnk.netEnglish
              1·
              10 months ago

              I do find myself ignoring this kind of article, too, usually. I really enjoy discovering a totally new domain where the technology is implemented in a totally new way, going well beyond language applications even.

              I dream of a ‘language’ model that specializes in general machine to machine communication. It almost surely exists already, but in my line of work, machine interfacing is an endless nightmare. A ‘protocol droid’ would be such a help.

      • scmstr@lemmynsfw.com
        English
        21·
        10 months ago

        TOS ran 1966-june3rd1969, Russia first landed unmanned in 1959, and the human race through NASA and the Apollo program first landed on the moon on june 20th 1969

        Isaac Asimov was a biochemist born in 1920, started writing published sci-fi in 1939 and full on scifi novels in 1950 (seriously, this stuff was wayyyyy ahead of its time). Died in 1992.

        Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921, died in 1991.