Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India

MarkWhittington writes "Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was obliged recently to defend his country's space program, which involves the spending of billions of rupees when India still has a large number of people living in abject poverty. The debate raging in India parallels a similar one that has simmered in the United States for decades."

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Re:Not just space, but research in general...

[udachny]

Oh, man, oh, how sad, how sad, I can't express sadness enough, there is no such HTML tag unfortunately.

The people working for Indian space program are on government welfare, more precisely they are paid by the people whose heads will be bashed if they don't give up portion of their time, portion of their effort in life to run this program.

How sad and pathetic your comment is... and the moderation......