Empathy for Donald Pettit
There was an intriguing outpouring of concern worldwide when Sunita Williams and
Indian Space Research Organisation
Let’s allow space missions to be wonderful
Finally some external validation. After months of insisting Sunita Williams and Barry
Subtracting from science funding
NavIC’s hurdles project govt’s reluctance to fund innovation’, Hindustan Times,
The fever dream of 'technological sovereignty'
I recently came across an initiative called “Industrial47”. Someone had shared a
Solve all our problems
This is xkcd #1232. When it came out I remember it was
The pitfalls of Somanath calling Aditya L1 a 'protector'
In a WhatsApp group of which I’m a part, there’s
Infinity in 15 kilograms
While space is hard, there are also different kinds of hardness. For
Why not increase ISRO's budget?
This post is in response to a question on Reddit about why
What Gaganyaan tells us about chat AI, and vice versa
Talk of chat AI* is everywhere, as I’m sure you know.
On Somanath withdrawing his autobiography
Excerpt from The Hindu, November 4, 2023:
S. Somanath, Chairman, Indian Space
India's science leadership
On October 17, the National Council for Education Research and Training (NCERT)
Gaganyaan: The ingredient is not the recipe
For all the hoopla over indigeneity – from ISRO chairman S. Somanath exalting
