This goes out to all the people who scour strange sites on the internet to solve mysteries: An Indian programmer helped NASA find India's lost Vikram moon lander in his spare time. @kchangnyt emailed with @ramanean about his #chandrayaan2 discovery:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/02/science/india-moon-mission-vikram-lander-found.html …
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Let's say your own child found a white dot from 238,900 miles away, emailed
@NASA, NASA found the Lander within 0.5 miles based on that dot, and sent your child a congrats letter. Would you say she found the Lander with help from NASA, or NASA found the Lander with her help?
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Maybe it's just me, but I'd say NASA located the crash site with her help and not have a problem with that.
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WaPo headline still says he helped, not that he found. That's a fine headline too.
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For heavens sake, NASA acknowledged with a thank you letter and NYT can not ack' that with proper heading?
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