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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. Re:Thoughts... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    2) Poverty, one aspect is that it's strongly tied to a lack of space. If we develop the means to expand our habitable environments. Poverty can be greatly reduced. We see this, with the discovery and colonization of America's, which in fact improved Europe by allowing many of the impoverished to migrate and become land owners.

    So India should put all its poor people on the moon?

  2. Re:Even Jesus Said by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thank you for illustrating an ad hominem attack so well.

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  3. Interesting to note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    As the U.S. have resolved the dilemma by slashing both the space program and the poor!!