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EDIT: Let me rephrase (hence "slippers" in quotes) - when I see the photos of India, I see poverty, people starving, literally living in garbage, etc... That mi

• linuxkerneldev 10y ago
  > when I see the photos of India, I see poverty, people starving, literally living in garbage Lets take that sentence and s/India/Flint/. "When I see the photos of Flint, I see poverty, people starving, literally living in garbage". It isn't far off isn't it? So how would you feel if a person from China asked us, how are you able to fund NASA when you have your own citizens desperate in Flint? How are you able to fund NASA when you have growing illiteracy in many American cities? People believing the earth is flat. People killing each other in Chiraq. People asking us why we have the highest incarceration rate and effectively modern-slavery system in the world. Do you see how your question reflects more on us and our own culture?
• zaroth 10y ago
  Funding the space program is part of the aspirational work that a country does that brings about the cultural change and technological productivity boosts necessary to help solve the first order poverty problems. Because poverty isn't a problem born out of "literally not enough money to feed the population" it's significantly more complex than that.
• apoorvkumar 10y ago
  That space program is a revenue making venture - so don't worry about India - we can travel to space just fine without burning a hole in our pockets. Can you ?