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India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent
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Overrated movie. I'll take real science and progress any day over imaginary nonsense that'll never happen.
A world with only "real" science and progress but without any entertainment would be quite boring.
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.
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.