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Re:ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a... by Zurrrrr on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:04AM (#35409683)
> Fine, keep him on HN, but allow me to appeal to @dang on the site's own guidelines at least. There can be reprieve but not reproach.

There is no reason for you to have taken my comment so personally, and acted like I have insulted you and your family.

I made a point and stated an opinion. I'm not racist, or an 'ignorant', much as you wish that were the case.

My comment isn't against the guidelines, even if you disagree with it. You're the only one in this thread who has violated the guidelines.

My comment isn't specific to India. I maintain that any country with some of the problems India has should not be putting money into a space program to compete with superpowers (i.e. for clout), that money could absolutely be spent better in other ways.

Rather than engage with me productively, you decided to take a lot of personal offense and throw around insults to retaliate against a perceived sleight.

If you had said why you disagree, stuck to facts, and had a productive discussion instead of a tantrum, then you may have resulted in educating and changing not only my mind, but all the others that you complain about.

Re:ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a... by philonoist on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:01AM (#35410068)
"My comment isn't specific to India. I maintain that any country with some of the problems India...."

It still makes you racist. Just that you are racist to countries like India, if not India. I mean don't you think we already know that? Yet we proceeded because of our SWOT analysis favoring such missions. Don't you get it that we too are capable of making such decision rationally? That contempt attitude is what makes you racist.

Repeat after me: "India is not after clout, cheap thrills of praise and attention, etc. India gets about 5 million dollars profit for a year for launching missions like these. All of these are India's welfare money. India also gets a single digit population out of poverty every year because of ISRO alone. India gets to solve problems like high resolution real time monitoring of 100s of parametres, which contributes to GDP in millions of dollars, not Indian Rupee."

We all know India's societal ailments. We all know India takes donations from UN and West. But now? We don't have to.

Re:ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a... by Zurrrrr on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:56PM (#35414477)
> It still makes you racist.

No it doesn't. It just makes you incredibly insecure.

It's not more complicated than that.

Re:ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a... by clocker on Sunday April 02, 2023 @01:35PM (#35412998)
> that money could absolutely be spent better in other ways.

Your opinions are childish so don’t really bother me. That said, that money cant be spent better in other ways. You have no idea how extremely efficient ISRO is in making use of the budget they are allocated.

Re:ISRO successfully lands a Reusable Launch Vehicle from a... by imtringued on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:15PM (#35413459)
>that money could absolutely be spent better in other ways.

It can't. The amount of money allocated to the space program is insignificant and doesn't move the needle. There are diminishing returns to putting more and more money into the same things. By investing a little into every sector you diversity and pick up the low hanging fruit.