[nwrep]

It will never get off the ground with the awful infrastructure and mediocre talent in India.

[Brian Griffin]

“mediocre talent in India”

It’s not like 40 years ago.

There are highly talented Asian Indians nowadays.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

It will never get off the ground with the awful infrastructure and mediocre talent in India.

I believe you're living in the past, and it's a good thing that you are. With Taiwan under imminent threat of invasion by the PRC and with us pretty much guaranteed to do nothing to prevent it, we need as many other sources of chip manufacture around the world as we can get.

[bigbob]

ah but they all went to IIT!

[SeekAndFind]

RE: mediocre talent in India.

If India has mediocre talent, explain to me how they are able to:

1) Develop an Orbiter that is even as we speak, circle Mars and study its surface and atmosphere from orbit at a total budget of ONLY $75 million ( less than what it costs to make a lot of big budget Hollywood films ).

2) Develop the Chandrayaan-3 mission that successfully demonstrated soft landing on the lunar surface and operate a rover to explore the terrain near the south pole of the Moon. All at the cost of only $73 Million.

Consider this — India has 1.4 Billion people ( more than 4 times our population ). If only 5% of that are extremely talented ( like the Indian CEOs of some of our most successful high tech companies ), that’s 70 million talented people! Nearly 20 times the number of people living in Silicon Valley.