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India Brings Back Orbiting Satellite to Earth
bharatm writes "In a pathbreaking event heralding its arrival as a space power with capability to recover an orbiting satellite, India today successfully brought back a spacecraft to earth, giving a new impetus to the proposed manned mission to space in the next decade."
no mention on /. of China's newfound ability to shoot a satellite that is in orbit.
Monstar L
Shouldn't US have rebuilt New orleans and Missisippi devastated by Katrina before jumping into the Iraq War?
Each nation has its own priorities, and while you spout an altrustic question, the same was true in 1969 when UJS landed a man on moon.
The poverty in US at that time was high enough.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
The Same reason why us heartless americans dont provide basic amenities to blacks and the spend more than half of the world's defense expenditure on needless wars. Shame on us too.
The only thing broken about America in this regard, is that some of her citizens are still so racist as to propose that blacks need to have basic amenities provided to them. No Caucasian belief could be more destructive to a black's career aspirations than that.
India, by contrast, still reinforces a caste system that prevents vertical mobility no matter how clever and productive a person is. A black person in America may have to work harder to move vertically, but at least the barriers set in his or her way (such as asshats like you) are soft.
FATMOUSE + YOU = FATMOUSE
The same can (and has) been said to all nations that spend money on space travel.
From "Whitey on the Moon" (1969) by The Last Poets:
Taxes takin' my whole damn check,
Junkies makin' me a nervous wreck,
The price of food is goin' up,
As if all that shit wasn't enough
A rat done bit my sister Nell
(and Whitey's on the moon)
Her face an' arm began to swell.
(but Whitey's on the moon)
Was all that money I made last year
(for Whitey on the moon?)
How come there ain't no money here?
(Whitey's on the moon!)...