Water on Moon
“That’s not how we sound!” Hahaha! Comic! Aasif Mandvi did this so well! Everyone should see this. See also this article on Aasif Mandvi: A Man Called Mandvi.
It’s a play on the discovery of water on the moon by ISRO (the Indian Space Research Organization) a week back, how American news eclipses things like this (they’d rather be showing call centers, tandooris, Apu’s,…). For those of you who don’t know, India’s space program has become a global player in the space industry business, taking on a significant share of the pie (NASA is no longer the sole forerunner). See for example PSLV-C9.
Yet another indicator why this recession is no ordinary recession for the USA but a levelling out of the playing field with large populous countries like China, India, Brazil on the rise. Americans (in particular those living on credit of some form or the other) will have to moderate their life style or have the recession do it for them. See also The American Dream.
Having said that, to put things in perspective, my driver (in India) — from a typical rural background, but very well informed, casually mentioned about what’s the deal about this news going around about India finding water on the moon? In particular, when they could have spent that much amount of money to connect rivers to bring water to people who don’t have any [here on Earth]? He has a point, but I wouldn’t scuttle one mission for another, just that the water sharing issue unlike that of space exploration is embroiled in politics.