Is it true that 30% of NASA scientists are IITians.....and 35% of silicon valley is run by them??
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Yes. Yes they are.\n\nWe're, I mean they're watching you at this very moment....
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No they are not the same. Information technology is more with they systems and the science part deals with more of the program.
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Did you know that 96.7% of percentages are made up?
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Wow! Impressive! NASA would love to learn your techniques!  Save tax payers a lot of money they could use elsewhere.  How do you help us change our lives like you have changed yours?  Man, that would turn my head around.
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We are good people, but as we all know where good exists, bad too does. MOSTLY (not all) the India people we meet here, on Answers and Chat are the wrong kind of people who will piss us off with dirty talk and stuff like that. I can't frankly seem to understand why do they have to act like such morons. Don't they have any self respect?\n\nWe have a glorious history, and as a result there's a lot of old style thinking here. That dowry kind of stuff. Its almost abolished now, but still some cases are seen. We are a developing country, will take some time to become all modern.\n\nAnd I completely disagree with the people who say that we stink. That's totally mean. If the person they met did, its okay. But that dosen't mean everybody's like that.\n\nAnd if any of you think that we are fat, lousy, stinky people with nothing to do, hear this fact...Indians comprise about 16% of NASA's employees. India is the biggest sofware engineer exporter to America.\n\nWe must learn to respect every culture, race etc.\n\n...EDIT...\n\nShut up ahmed. We know what a deodrant is. And those 16%, I read them in a book long before. And they are not janitors or clerks. They are engineers. Kalpana Chawla was a great person and an astronaut. She was born in Haryana and was educated there itself. She even learnt flying in her hometown's Airclub...Karnal. She LATER joined NASA. Check your knowlege first before saying something.
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According to Bill Joy co founder of Sun Microsystems Nanotechnology will rise up and out of our control...I disagree since the technology is still on the drawing board and he's jumping to conclusions without factoring in human interaction and societal factors...so I see a complex future with governmental regualtions and social protests like such with the genetic engineering of produce.
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There are certainly some scientists who believe that, but they are a very small minority. You aren't actually wrong for believing that to be the case, but you should be aware that it is considered unlikely by most scientsists.
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From Business Week:\n\nApple has shelved plans to build a sprawling offshore technical support center in Bangalore. Just months ago, there was talk of Apple employing 3,000 workers by 2007 who would handle technical and customer-service support for Macintosh computers and other Apple gear in India and elsewhere. There was even speculation that Jobs would travel to India in the fall to publicize Apple's commitment to the country.\n\nIt wasn't meant to be, and a small, newly hired staff of about 30 at Apple's subsidiary in Bangalore was let go recently. (The company will maintain a small sales and marketing arm in the city.) Apple spokesman Steve Dowling would only say the company had "reevaluated our plans" and decided to focus support center activities in other countries.\n\nSOME QUESTIONS.  However, another source familiar with the situation said the decision was mostly cost-driven. "India isn't as inexpensive as it used to be," the source said. "The turnover is high, and the competition for good people is strong." The company feels it "can do it more efficiently elsewhere."\n\nSuch talk comes amid concerns about the sustainability of India's fast-track economy. True, India's economy grew 9.3% last quarter, and it is still home to the world's largest, fasting-growing offshore outsourcing sector, which generates about $17.3 billion in revenues and employs nearly 700,000 people, according to the McKinsey Global Institute. And Indian outfits such as Infosys (INFY) and Tata are among the best-managed companies in the emerging markets.\n\nYet India's benchmark stock Sensitive Index, or Sensex, experienced a mini-crash in late May as global investors fled from emerging market stocks (see BW Online, 5/23/06, "India's Market Turns Down the Heat").\n\nINDIAN BRAINPOWER.  And India's fabled infrastructure headaches and surprisingly robust wage growth have also raised worries about India's undisputed leadership as a business outsourcing Mecca. Entry-level wages have climbed by as much as 13% annually from 2000 to 2004, while salaries for mid-level managers have registered increases of 30% annually during the same period, to a median of $31,131, according to McKinsey and Nasscom, India's software industry association.\n\nHowever, while the Apple move certainly will generate plenty of media attention -- "Apple Software Logs Out of India," proclaimed a headline from the Times of India -- it may be a special case. Apple has certainly utilized Indian engineering brainpower in the past. Part of the electronic circuitry that powers the iPod was developed by a research outfit in Hyderabad, for instance.\n\nYet for the Bangalore operation, Jobs never had any intention of outsourcing any high-end software development and proprietary technology research away from the company's Cupertino headquarters or operations nearby, according to the source familiar with Apple's operations in India.\n\nSTRATEGIC TIE-UP.  Also, while wages for software engineers and IT project managers have soared, entry level wages for call-center employees are still an affordable $2,500 or so per year. Apple had only a staff about 30 at its Bangalore operation, but "you need economies of scale, say 500," to generate huge savings for a company, says Sunil Mehta, vice-president of Nasscom. Unlike rivals such as IBM-Lenovo, Dell (DELL), and Hewlett Packard (HPQ) that have a huge base of personal computer customers, Apple's Mac market share is far lower, undercutting the justification for a huge customer service center on the ground in India.\n\nThe Bangalore operation also seemed redundant given that on May 29 Apple announced a strategic tie-up with New Delhi-based HCL Infosystems to provide distribution and after-service care for Apple's phenomenally successful iPod line. HCL has a tremendous distribution and service footprint in the country and
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i just saw in the news about that rally regarding india's decision to "open up more oportunities for lower caste ppl" to go to medial school.. and i thought.. OMG! THEY STILL PRACTICE CASTE SYSTEM IN INIA?!?!?!?  DUH! ITS THE 21ST CENTURY!!!
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Its the goverment. the goverment works like snails only slower. Have you seen the public leaping past NASA.  well they will soon
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No - (let me guess all you people who think we did will give me a thumbs down !!!!)\n\n- My old pocket calculator has more power than the computers used 'to get to the moon'\n- photographic evidence\n- the camrea evidence\n- if they got there, why did they then just 'stop'\nand not sent many other missions there / set up a research station etc\n\nI do, however, think that they DID get there years later - after all what would happen if a space craft passed over and there was no moom buggy, footprints & flag.\n\nIQ ? HAH !!!! IQ does not measure important things like common sense, creative thinking, social skills etc etc\n(and YES I do know mine - its above average I just choose to dismiss it)
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No, maybe 2% are legally retarded, 25% are just mediocre, of normal intelligence while  70% are just plain stupid and the last 3% are intelligent and 1% of them control the world.
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I admire the Indian software brains very much. They are very clever and smart people.\n\nHowever, being a Swiss citizen, people are feeling the pain of having jobs exported to countries like India. Swiss people simply expect way more than an Indian worker would. The GDP of Switzerland lies at 35'300 Dollars while India's lies at 3'400 Dollars. Needless to say, that's over 10 times lower. An Indian can do the job just as good if not better than a Western person would. But somehow people have to earn a living over here too. Our society is way more expensive so our workers demand higher wages. Profit oriented corporations and high quality, low cost services in India are a serious problem.
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That is so funny that you asked this. My kids and I were watching the news last night and there was the discussion of having the ability to land on Mars. They have discovered certain bacterias on Mars. The statement made was that the men and women selected to go to Mars would do so with the knowledge that they would never return to earth. We could not risk them bringing back a bacteria or substance that could grow and cause disease. My girls asked me the same question you did. Just last night! \n\n"Mommy, would you go knowing you'd never see us again?"\n\nWe all have our passions. Look at our different jobs and you can see what it is that drives us to work and provide not only for our family but for our self worth. I teach school cause for some strange reason I like to pass on knowledge. I'm sure there are people that want to pass on knowledge to the point of discovering it so that others can benefit from it. So much so that they would move to said distant planet as a pioneer. I hope I'm not being selfish when I say that I could not. My place is here. As I said, we all have our passions. Mine are directed towards so many responsibilities here that I could not desert them to do such a noble deed. Those that do........those that sacrifice all they have or could have are some of the greatest heros we'll ever know. So instead.......I'll teach about these people and make their findings worthwhile by passing on the knowledge of their discoveries. Maybe that could be my part. *shrugs*
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No, but not entirely false, just misconstrued information.  NASA has had talks with Google to use Google's search engine technology to sort out the vast amounts of data in NASA's computers. In other words, NASA is looking for ways to provide easy data access to its scientists. Look below
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"Jerry Elliott, a Cherokee and Osage, helped send the first man to the moon.\n\nAnd as a NASA flight mission controller, he helped bring home three astronauts from a broken space module called Apollo 13.\n\nHis secret to success was just laying himself out there, despite his cultural differences."\n\n\nedit: If you're talking about an Indian from India, the first Indian to work for NASA was Kalpana Chawla.  She was one of the crew that died on Columbia when it exploded on February 1, 2003.  Kalpana was born in Karnal, India.
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NASA only hires highly educated people with degrees in math and science fields.  I know this because my husband considered it and researched it thoroughly.  If you don't have at least a Masters, they won't even give you the time of day.