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Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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Re: Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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And http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/indianews/article-24804...

Indian government is already spending billions on poverty problem. Money spent on this mission is less than 1% of money spent on welfare. You can't stop everything else and just focus on poverty. Poor people are not the only ones living in India, there are educated people who need jobs too.

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." --Einstein

Re: Mangalyaan, India’s First Mars Mission

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post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indian government is already spending billions on poverty problem. Money spent on this mission is less than 1% of money spent on welfare. You can't stop everything else and just focus on poverty. Poor people are not the only ones living in India, there are educated people who need jobs too.

"The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." --Einstein

elaborate this gem of a statement please, idiot.
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