India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent::undefined

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      2 years ago

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

      • lud@lemm.ee
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        A world with only “real” science and progress but without any entertainment would be quite boring.

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          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.

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            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.

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

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