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
    1124·
    2 years ago

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

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      24·
      2 years ago

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

      • ours@lemmy.filmEnglish
        24·
        2 years 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.

        • scmstr@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
          11·
          2 years 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.

    • rockSlayer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      2 years ago

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

    • kenbw2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

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