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Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India

Posted by samzenpus on from the will-launch-for-food dept.

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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  1. Space program will solve poverty problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'm all for this. An Indian space program will solve their poverty problem and the rest of the world's Indian problem. Just cram all those soulless cow-kissers in to a can and shoot them in to space.

  2. Re:Even Jesus Said by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sounds pretty lame to me. I don't think we need to pay much attention to religious justifications for economic inequality from ancient carpenters or middle eastern sheepherders.

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  3. Re:Not just space, but research in general... by udachny · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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......

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