India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped

Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by blinkingled on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:16PM (#20435714)

So how much do you think the Indians are spending on the space mission, how much of it should be taken away and applied towards poverty elimination and how exactly do you see that working? Hand over the money, build toilets, food rationing, power availability - all of that they are doing in parallel to their space program and those aren't things that just magically disappear by throwing more money at them.

This is false dichotomy - one doesn't have to cease for other to exist and ceasing one doesn't automatically make the other better.

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Re:India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is ... by kmallen on Sunday July 14, 2019 @04:31PM (#20435797)

> So how much do you think the Indians are spending on the space mission, how much of it should be taken away and applied towards poverty elimination and how exactly do you see that working?

All very good questions. I think the act of asking them is more important than merely stating that the space program is either worth it or not worth it.

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