Awesome. The more the merrier. India will become an economically powerful nation just like China is today. Just a matter of time.
The sooner the better. We need a democratic counterpoint to China's totalitarianism.
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Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#22Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
Well why don't you donate the INR 400 internet pack you use to surf internet while a lot of people are starving of hunger?
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#23Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
How do you propose it should do that? By giving people handouts? By giving people terrible jobs in sweatshops? Or perhaps by inspiring the next generation of engineers and innovators?
Even those in the slums without any fancy education will be able to relate to the scale and nature of this achievement, if successful. I personally think the expense is worth it.
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#24Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
There is always at least one such comment. Sorry to say, but it's quite ignorant.
This goes for most nations.
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#25Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
This is your only contribution to Hacker News in almost 5 years. Telling.
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#26Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
Investing in science and technology is the only way to do something about poverty in the long term.
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#27Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
Well why don't you donate the INR 400 internet pack you use to surf internet while a lot of people are starving of hunger?
Why spend my money to help unrelated people so unrelated people can waste their money on a space program? How would I benefit from that?
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#28Awesome. The more the merrier. India will become an economically powerful nation just like China is today. Just a matter of time.
> Just a matter of time
No, it’s not. The middle income trap is treacherous. I am optimistic for India. But there will be struggles and sacrifices; ascendency is far from inevitable.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well why don't you donate the INR 400 internet pack you use to surf internet while a lot of people are starving of hunger?
Why spend my money to help unrelated people so unrelated people can waste their money on a space program? How would I benefit from that?
India's remote sensing satellites have helped millions of farmers.
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#30No organization ever managed to land on the moon so far on the first try. My guess is that this won't be any different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveyor_1
The US series of surveyor probes landed on the moon on the first try. I think it's reasonable to argue that these were the first US attempts to land on the moon - while the Ranger probes had seismometer capsules with retrorockets, they were meant to crash into the moon at 150 miles per hour and survive.