Headline of the Year

Jeff Taylor | January 27, 2005

Thus far. From the mighty Fark:

India plans two moon missions. First will map lunar terrain, second will establish call center

Good Lord that's funny. But an Indian lunar mission is no joke. It is proof that the country's science talent pool is deep and growing, and that the call center image is not exactly accurate.

Comments

|1.27.05 @ 9:49AM|#

While I generally agree with your comment, I would argue that the closing line of the story, that "[t]he U.S., European Space Agency, China and Japan are also planning lunar missions for this decade[,]" simply suggests that the technology necessary for building an unmanned space vehicle has become mature. Hence any country with good engineering schools could get into the game. And the notion that India has good engineering schools is certainly not new -- as any "brain drain" Indian immigrants of the 60's and 70's could tell you.

This story is not so much an indication of innovative Indian technology as an indication of (relatively) banal global technology. It is also a nice reminder that the Asian "brain drain" has been slowing or stopped for some time -- even moreso in the past three years.

Anon

mr. sun|1.27.05 @ 11:26AM|#

I like this headline.

DaveInBigD|1.27.05 @ 11:27AM|#

Good headline, but I don't think it beats this unintentionally (actually probably intentionally) funny headline from CNN - "Poll: Americans split on whether Bush is a Uniter or Divider"

|1.27.05 @ 12:21PM|#

Mr. Sun, your headline is hilarious.

I just saw one on Comcast.net that said (not quoting), The Suicidal Man who caused the train wreck may get death.

Is that considered state-assisted suicide?

|1.27.05 @ 2:07PM|#

so will the probe be called the

Vindalooner?

Jake
(who couldn't resist. sorry)

|2.6.05 @ 2:27PM|#

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