Why Western criticism of India’s Mars mission is blatant racism

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Comments

[nesmith]

Hey, if they can do it, more power to 'em. We (the US) seem to have decided to sit back and let the scientifically ignorant drag us backwards.

[rex_dart]

NASA has a rover the size of a car on Mars right now and is looking at sending another in less than a decade...?

[nesmith]

Well, that shows how much I pay attention.

[rex_dart]

Curiosity landed in 2012 and has been doing amazing work (and just went in reverse for the first time recently). It's worth reading up on because the way they landed it was pretty interesting and really spectacular.

[alexvdl]

Whenever the subject of Mars rovers come up I think of this comic.

https://xkcd.com/695/

[shortsweetcynic]

that one always makes me ugly-cry.

LIKE RIGHT NOW.

[gambitia]

Noooooooo, why would you link that?!

[lafinjack]

Don't click this.

[mimblexwimble]

lol

[fenris_lorsrai]

Or my favorite crazy NASA project, let's smash two satellites into the moon, FOR SCIENCE AGAIN. the again part is the hilarious part. it worked well last time, but now we know how to do it better!

basically crash a dying probe into the moon to get it to kick up dust still functioning ones can analyze for what elements are present on surface and water content. so basically create an artificial asteroid strike.

SCIENCE!

[peace_piper]

Or the smashing into that comet, that was EXCITING SCIENCE.

[fenris_lorsrai]

EXPLOSIONS MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER!

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