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I once read a list of interesting words in foreign languages and Portuguese had something similar.

Yeap: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/desenrascanço

I'd say it's both a source of national pride and shame for us, in the sense that we can find ingenious solutions, but often those are only required because we didn't do it right in the first place.

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In Brazil it's called "gambiarra", and the same mixed pride/shame feelings also apply.

More often than not it's "couldn't due to resource constraints".

That's mostly why I kind of feel like I want to wait and see if the spacecraft actually manages to do what it's designed to.

If you have to send multiple 70+ million dollar missions because the hacks keep failing the cost benefit is not all that good compare to the more expensive 300 million dollar mission.

I'm talking about the Portuguese term, not the Hindi.

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