India signs deal for its own LIGO
India today signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation to build its own LIGO gravitational wave detector
This deal, combined with the possibility that TMT might move to India as well, suggests that India is about to move aggressively from the Third World to the First. And the reason, after decades of wallowing in poverty and failure, is that they finally abandoned in the late 1990s the Soviet models of socialism and communism and embraced private enterprise and capitalism, ideas championed by the United States.
If only some modern Americans would do the same.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
India today signed an agreement with the National Science Foundation to build its own LIGO gravitational wave detector
This deal, combined with the possibility that TMT might move to India as well, suggests that India is about to move aggressively from the Third World to the First. And the reason, after decades of wallowing in poverty and failure, is that they finally abandoned in the late 1990s the Soviet models of socialism and communism and embraced private enterprise and capitalism, ideas championed by the United States.
If only some modern Americans would do the same.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“And the reason, after decades of wallowing in poverty and failure, is that they finally abandoned in the late 1990s the Soviet models of socialism and communism and embraced private enterprise and capitalism, ideas championed by the United States.”
Actually, the fight with the Babu State continues. It has existed inside India since at least the Empire of Asoka, adapting to one conqueror after another, and the local Babu still expects to be treated with the deference due a representative of an Emperor. Fortunately for these science projects, the Babus are among those hungry to demonstrate what their State can do to boost India’s standing in the world.
IMHO, they are still in a steep part of their climb out of agrarian culture, and will be as long as their Babu State has the ear of the politicians. Yes, our progressive movement has put us in that position as well through their efforts over the last 130 years. After all, the great patron of academia from whence progressivism sprung is the State, which is staffed by the same academic clerk sorts that make up the Babu State.
The Babu State will gladly adopt the physical epiphenomena of industrial technology. Still, Indian culture is a long way from telling them to take a hike, allowing freedoms of participation in the worldwide networks of industrial society, and the Babus intend to keep it that way.