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I have no great knowledge of this sector but why is India investing so much here? Do they see it as potentially paying off like their IT sector somewhere down t
by jens8 8y ago
I have no great knowledge of this sector but why is India investing so much here? Do they see it as potentially paying off like their IT sector somewhere down the road?
How much of this tech is cheaper to engineer in India?
- gumby 8y agoWell why should anyone do this? India can, and as the aphorism says, "[humankind] does not live by bread alone". In addition space travel is important today and why be beholden to other countries for a capability you could have for yourself? Just as an example, several countries have build or are building alternatives to GPS so that they can build something they can depend on and not risk being shut out by the USA. It makes more sense for India to do this today than it did for the USSR to do it in the 50s. But I think we are all glad that the USSR launched the exploration of space!
- vithlani 8y agoTheir "IT sector" is basically people who can work a computer and know how to speak English. Remove the last bit and there is nothing left. And they would have no idea how to make anything "pay off" to the advantage of their citizens. India has been a nuclear power for close to 50 years now -- and yet you have more then half the population without basic sanitation every morning.