Is it true that 30% of NASA scientists are IITians.....and 35% of silicon valley is run by them??
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Did you know that 96.7% of percentages are made up?
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Yes, and I wish I could find that link I read years ago.  The above methods are acceptable, but this method used up “A LOT” of energy, and was not perfected.  When I worked at NASA years ago there was a joke about it. Now there is something to it they have found.  Like anything else you through enough money at it you will get something out of it.  So for your government money watchers I recall something like only 5 to 8 % of this research budget comes from government grants. It really does not have any military value as of yet.
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usually its the biomedical scientists. also it could be just stem cell researchers.
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If you know any scientists personally... they will pretty much tell you that it's a majority...not everyone, but there are all kind of crazy ideas in the outer realms of science that are minority beliefs...\n\nbut, just because a majority of the scientists think that it's true, doesn't mean that it is... it just means that all the current evidence points in one direction... that is one thing science proves over and over again...
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If by individual you mean only one person is carrying out the research all by himself/herself, without any help from anyone else, except for possibly for money, then I would say yes. \n\nIf by individual you are referring to companies that are competing to find a cure for cancer or Multiple Sclerosis, I would say,unfortunately, no. If various companies working on the same project would share their info and findings, progress would be greatly accelerated. But each company wants the credit and the money for being first. That is sad. It is also sad that an individual would want to keep his work secret from other individuals working on the same project.\n\nTwo heads are better than one
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Hell No...man its about 4.6 billion..i believe in science..and the human mind..not a monkey in the sky..
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If you rely on the law of probability, then my opinion would be yes. This of course has not been proven, however, with more than 16 Billion other stars such as our sun in the Milky Way Galaxy. Let's say only a quarter of them have stable planetary orbit systems. That is still 4 BILLION opportunities for life. Now if we broke that down and said that only 1 % of those solar systems had a chance for intelligent life of some sort, that would still be 400,000 opportunities! I am speaking of our galaxy alone. There are 250 Billion Plus other galaxies with similiar potential. Alone???? I think not!
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We have a ratio of 15% Politicians with a scientific background in Germany, I think that's a pretty good ratio if you compare it with how many people and how many scientists we have. And if you look at all the people behind the politicians, that really know what's going on and inform their politicians it's even more :-) \nThe sad thing though is that lawyers outnumber scientists by far (more than 30%)\n\nThat's why I wouldn't choose politics over a real scientists job  :-)
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A very difficult question.  Does this include all the servicing missions.  Does it include launch costs for the servicing missions?  How about all the grant money sent to researchers to process and publish their data and findings? Or do you mean the initial costs to build the hardware and ground station (incl software.) It was about a billion bucks at the start, but 3-5 is probably close to the current total tab.
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Bell Labs, Watson Labs, Palo Alto Research Center and several others were very important corporately funded research organizations.  Sadly "research" has become a dirty word in corporate boardrooms, probably because any investment that does not pay itself back within 5 years is generally off the table in the minds of stockholders.\n\nSo, all the great labs are becoming much more product development oriented with the result that the corporate United States has been eating its technological seed corn for some years now.  About the only real basic research that takes place now is federally funded, but those dollars have been in decline against inflation for some time also except for a very few small sub fields.\n\nRemoving federal funding of basic research will only hasten our journey into becoming, well, not a technological backwater, but sort of like Spain;  relying on developments in other nations to keep our economy going, which pretty much means picking up the leavings after new tech has evolved one or two generations.
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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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It was not quite thousands of engineers, but some dozens. Thousands lost their jobs when Avro Arrow was canceled, but only a few of them came to the US and joined NASA. And yes, they did make important contributions.
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As amusing as find your ranting and as much as I agree with you, I still have to say: educated people still are out there, even though it might seem like they were abducted by aliens... \nStill, I would put the question in a different way: How many people on here have ever cared for education?\nPS: I like you!
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Science is about opportunism. Dwarves standing on the shoulders of midgets. \n\nPersonally, I have no problem with advancement via Universities or specialist institutes. However, the influence of the benefactors is all too apparent in the world of academia. Multinational corporations have far too much say in where science is going. Of course scientists are not without integrity. Indeed, to use the Human Genome project as an example, not-for-profit altruism has come into direct conflict with the profit margin - known as the "let's patent this just in case it does something that benefits humanity, so we can make some quick bucks from it" approach. \n\nI begin to suspect the meek will not inherit the earth until the rich and powerful have destroyed it.
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I have seen this number 56 and sense that this number is\n  a secure answer in the planning of the bjorgandroid.  The fine\n  point is the last martian explorers found this policy in itself. A\n  recent point of what space stations have achieved recently is\n  showing that this is still true and additional news is final.  A new\n  number of 15 with landing capabilities is completely sourced.\n  Fuel technically advanced stations that the explorers left in \n  orbit are now known to have surrounded Saturn several times\n  and being capable of mining on 31 of those making 46 in use.\n  10 is the major number of moons in the theories of Plato that\n  states planets must not make pathways through the heavens\n  because unknown variables would follow without clearance.\n  That is known to have a moon between mars and saturn of\n   unknown path and the last sonic radio star in this galaxy. A\n   full compare to inhabitable moon bases of star systems shows\n   that 32 moons are large, steady, resourced in some weather,\n   and having enough atmosphere to lower stress is accurate.
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There are a relatively small number of people that believe that the NASA moon landings were faked.  They do have quite a number of points that support their arguments.  Of course, all of these points have been responded to and all of their points have been debunked.\n\nThere will always be people who believe in vast conspiracies that require the combined silence of hundreds (or at least dozens) of people.  These same people often contend that the government is run by a bunch of idiots who couldn't find their rear ends with both hands and a map.  It can't be both.  Either the government is a group of super-secret geniuses or a bunch of bureaucrats who can't do most things properly or efficiently.  I believe it is the later.\n\nThere is no conspiracy except by the companies who lobby Congress to get money for their projects.
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The AP government and SemIndia have announced the setting up of a $3-billion (Rs 13,500 crore) project to manufacture semiconductors used in computers, mobile phones and other digital devices at a 1,200-acre site near the upcoming Hyderabad international airport, 40km from the city.\n\nTwo other semi conductors makers Nano Tech and Cypress Semiconductor have evinced interest in locating their bases in the FabCity and negotiations are on to woo some more semiconductor companies.\n\nChennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad, have been hotly pursuing the project. While work on the first phase of the SemIndia project, at an investment of $1 billion, would begin next month, the second phase would have an overall investment of $2 billion. However, within months an Assembly Test Mark Pack Plant used by chipmaker and Intel's main rival AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) will be set up. AMD is SemIndia's technology partner.\n\nState chief minister Dr Y S Rajashekhara Reddy, SemIndia chairman Vinod K. Agarwal, STPI director B V Naidu, and venture capitalist Pratap Kondumuri, said this was one the largest investments ever made in the country in the technology sector and would have the potential for a spin-off effect of drawing more companies.\n\nGovernment officials said this is as a first step towards India becoming a $33.6-billion semiconductor market employing about 36 lakh people by the year 2015, as projected by consultants Frost & Sullivan.\n\nThough the officials did not divulge the exact details of the equity structure, the project may have 50 per cent equity from promoters and strategic partners and 50 per cent debt component. Given its capital-intensive nature, the investment by strategic partners would be crucial. SemIndia also expects to support Broadcomm's chip requirements.\n\nDr Agarwal said STPI had discussed the project with the three southern states and while TN had shown little enthusiasm for it, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh had hotly contested to have the project located in their respective states. He said the support from Dr Reddy and his team, and from union minister for IT and communication Dayanidhi Maran had clinched the deal in favour of AP.\n\nMaran told reporters that the Andhra Pradesh government had promised to provide subsidy, power and water, besides making available 1,200 acres of land required for the project. He added that the AP government had even promised accommodation to key officials at the posh Jubilee Hills area in Hyderabad. As the project required a huge quantum of water for the reverse osmosis and water treatment plants, the state government has promised them enough water.\n\nMaran said the Fab City project has the capacity to provide employment to over 15 lakh people by 2015. But this talent pool has to become available. He said the Indian Semiconductor Association should come forward to provide this skilled workforce which the project will need in its second phase.\n\nHe said that though India was a late starter in the semi conductor race it would catch up soon as the coming years would be crucial for the Indian semiconductor industry as a lot of foreign majors were entering India, promising huge investment over the next couple of years.\n\n"AMD has already agreed to come in and is transferring the microprocessor technology to SemIndia. Nokia has agreed to set up a manufacturing plant in Chennai. Even Motorola and Siemens send this article to a friendare coming in," Maran added. The centre as well as state governments need to wake up to these calls in a proactive manner, he added.