India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Land on Moon

Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by ekianjo on Saturday September 07, 2019 @10:45AM (#20904042)

I love the fact that people always bring stuff like:

> hey you can find McDonalds and Starbucks even when you don't expect it, so it means the world is closer than it has ever been right?

You could find pottery exported in multiple places even in antiquity, that did not mean they had a single culture or single belief system in place. Do not equal exchange of goods with the assumption of a mono-culture.

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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by rjf72 on Saturday September 07, 2019 @11:22AM (#20904313)

Tea is also a phenomenal example here since it's been so globally traded that it no longer even has a cultural identity. And then when you get into the age of sail you suddenly see a massive intercontinental trade of sugar/cotton/tobacco/coffee/etc.

I also never understood why people seem to think that a multinational corporation selling stuff to different cultures is somehow doing anything but increasing the corporation's profit margins.

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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by ganeshkrishnan on Saturday September 07, 2019 @07:23PM (#20907358)

Interesting fact: if tea arrived via land, it's nomenclature is rhyming with chai. If it arrived via the seas, it rhymes with tea.

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Re:India Loses Contact with Probe Just as It Prepares to Lan... by lovemenot on Sunday September 08, 2019 @02:04AM (#20908872)

Japan, an island nation, seems to be an exception.

Ocha rhymes with chai.

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