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> In a country that’s already poor and starved of cash. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778
by iso1631 5y ago
> In a country that’s already poor and starved of cash.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-50965778
India has announced plans for a third lunar mission, months after its last one crash landed on the Moon's surface.
- naruvimama 5y agoThere is an ROI to India's space mission. The US has homeless problems too, but doesn't stop it from spending on the space program.
- ngc248 5y agoResources need to be spent on all things no ..... not just on the poor, but even on things which may payoff in the future. Another point is, you can never alleviate poverty by just giving the poor money
- KumarAseem 5y agoThe cost of space missions done by ISRO is extremely low. Even if you cancel all the space missions, the money saved will be in pennies and the loss of tech know how will be enormous. The wastage of finances is in other areas. Full page advertisements by govt departments on nonsensical things. Useless litigations. Implementing big changes to laws and systems without proper discussions and studies. Awarding contracts to entities whose track record is a bad one. And so on. India has become a morally poor nation and 90% of the citizens do not try to see and understand the big picture. They have on interest in spending time to learn what is happening in their nation and see what is happening in other nations and then question why we are doing things in proven wrong ways. Indians believe more in what is circulated on whatsapp and facebook than if you get a bunch of Nobel winners to explain the truth.
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