pakistani342
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@A-Team -- I thought I'd post this article here for your comment that Afghans were nuclear engineers or rocket scientists:
Article here from BBC
I'll also quote another personal anecdote: Shortly after NASA put the first Saudi into space my Father met his Saudi friend and colleague from when they were graduate students in the US in the 70s.
My father congratulated the Saudi on his people become a space-faring-people. My father's friend's reply left my father a bit off balance. His friend replied: Well Achmed (not my father's real name) -- you know the Americans have sent dogs and monkeys into space so it was really high time that they send a prince.
Not to amplify the poor man's misery -- but he is an accountant in a small firm in Stuttgart -- or was at the time of the articles' writing.
I guess he didn't really grasp the path-integrals or ergodic theory in class.
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His life is very different now - he's not a fighter pilot, or a cosmonaut, or a government minister, he's an accountant in a small firm in Stuttgart. He lives on the outskirts of the city with his wife and three children. It's less exciting, perhaps, but a good example of the peaceful normality the only Afghan to have visited space wishes for his own country.
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Article here from BBC
I'll also quote another personal anecdote: Shortly after NASA put the first Saudi into space my Father met his Saudi friend and colleague from when they were graduate students in the US in the 70s.
My father congratulated the Saudi on his people become a space-faring-people. My father's friend's reply left my father a bit off balance. His friend replied: Well Achmed (not my father's real name) -- you know the Americans have sent dogs and monkeys into space so it was really high time that they send a prince.
Not to amplify the poor man's misery -- but he is an accountant in a small firm in Stuttgart -- or was at the time of the articles' writing.
I guess he didn't really grasp the path-integrals or ergodic theory in class.
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His life is very different now - he's not a fighter pilot, or a cosmonaut, or a government minister, he's an accountant in a small firm in Stuttgart. He lives on the outskirts of the city with his wife and three children. It's less exciting, perhaps, but a good example of the peaceful normality the only Afghan to have visited space wishes for his own country.
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The point I making is that the masses of Afghans who were into core engineering subjects were sent to former USSR and by contrast those that you see in the West Coast are minute sample of the Afghan diaspora.
those dollars are gone to the ANSF that is currently conducting 34 simultaneous day and night operations across Afghanistan.