I think what they showed with the PM was an observation center and not the actual mission control room.
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I think what they showed with the PM was an observation center and not the actual mission control room.
Chandrayaan 2 - ISRO scientists tweak Chandrayaan 2 countdown to avoid the number 13
also do remember... isro is full of superstitious people.
but i guess this seems like a global phenomenon.
The Space Superstitions Of Rocket Scientists
also do remember... isro is full of superstitious people.
but i guess this seems like a global phenomenon.
The Space Superstitions Of Rocket Scientists
being superstitious is pretty common, example most of the Athletes, Actors/Actresses etc are all very much superstitious.
having personal faith is different. but meeting pandits in temples and avoiding number 13 as the premium science agency in the country kind of looks bad. isro should be running their own television channel educating kids about space. but what we get from them are visuals about meeting with pandits and hugging prime minister.
yes, i get it. doing these things do not hurt the space program. these are small things. if these make the people working on the project slightly more comfortable, it is hurting nobody. but we are living in strange times. where our leaders regularly bullshit about the power of astrology and how india cows exhale oxygen and so on. someone needs to take a stand somewhere.
yes, i get it. doing these things do not hurt the space program. these are small things. if these make the people working on the project slightly more comfortable, it is hurting nobody. but we are living in strange times. where our leaders regularly bullshit about the power of astrology and how india cows exhale oxygen and so on. someone needs to take a stand somewhere.
Everyone has fears and most of the times, following a superstition act as a support system. I am pretty sure ISRO scientists are not trying to find logic with it. OnePlus avoided launching Oneplus 4 because number 4 is considered unlucky in China. So will you stop considering their products because they are superstitious?
The quality of the work matters, not what superstition they follow. ISRO time and again has delivered with great projects. ISRO even invited children from all over the country to witness the Chandrayaan 2 landing. What political leaders say or do, what does that have to do with ISRO?
And finally, space missions are notoriously hard to succeed. According to NASA, 40 % of the total lunar missions have failed since 1960. When the failure rate is so high, obviously people need other coping mechanisms to prepare for it and here superstition often helps them.
The quality of the work matters, not what superstition they follow. ISRO time and again has delivered with great projects. ISRO even invited children from all over the country to witness the Chandrayaan 2 landing. What political leaders say or do, what does that have to do with ISRO?
And finally, space missions are notoriously hard to succeed. According to NASA, 40 % of the total lunar missions have failed since 1960. When the failure rate is so high, obviously people need other coping mechanisms to prepare for it and here superstition often helps them.
vishalrao
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This is exciting! They will be trying to establish contact for 14 days apparently, though it has probably crashed onto the moon's surface, it is nice to hope that it had safely landed and the rover is moving about on the surface 😀
"In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside. Our Planck is one of them, and that is why we love him.
I am quite aware that we have just now lightheartedly expelled in imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly, responsible for the buildings of the temple of science; and in many cases our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can grow which consists of nothing but creepers. For these people any sphere of human activity will do, if it comes to a point; whether they become engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances. Now let us have another look at those who have found favor with the angel. Most of them are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other, in spite of these common characteristics, than the hosts of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple? That is a difficult question and no single answer will cover it. To begin with, I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman's irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
With this negative motive there goes a positive one. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."
Principles of Research
address by Albert Einstein (1918)
(Physical Society, Berlin, for Max Planck's sixtieth birtday)
I am quite aware that we have just now lightheartedly expelled in imagination many excellent men who are largely, perhaps chiefly, responsible for the buildings of the temple of science; and in many cases our angel would find it a pretty ticklish job to decide. But of one thing I feel sure: if the types we have just expelled were the only types there were, the temple would never have come to be, any more than a forest can grow which consists of nothing but creepers. For these people any sphere of human activity will do, if it comes to a point; whether they become engineers, officers, tradesmen, or scientists depends on circumstances. Now let us have another look at those who have found favor with the angel. Most of them are somewhat odd, uncommunicative, solitary fellows, really less like each other, in spite of these common characteristics, than the hosts of the rejected. What has brought them to the temple? That is a difficult question and no single answer will cover it. To begin with, I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman's irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity.
With this negative motive there goes a positive one. Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientist do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."
Principles of Research
address by Albert Einstein (1918)
(Physical Society, Berlin, for Max Planck's sixtieth birtday)
