Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
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India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
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Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Investing in science and technology is the only way to do something about poverty in the long term.
The only way is to create wealth, which science and technology are pretty good tools for. A space program, however, isn't something that creates wealth. It's something really cool to do with wealth. Hence the suggestion to first create enough wealth, before spending it.
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Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#43Useful reddit page with links to all the livestreams (at least 4), timeline of updates, point form mission details https://old.reddit.com/r/ISRO/comments/ccbpvm/gslv_mk_iii_m1...
I was about to link this as well, glad you beat me to it. At the time of this comment launch is about (edit) 90 min hours away, they have finished liquid oxygen fueling, and loading hydrogen.
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#44Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
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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.
The same way every other country did? By creating wealth, not spending it.
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Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#46No organization ever managed to land on the moon so far on the first try. My guess is that this won't be any different.
Hmm this is a really morbid thought but I wonder when we'll see the first person die on the moon. Will it be an astronaut or a civilian? What would be different today if the Apollo 11 crew never came back?
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#47Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
ISRO's work is helping India to enforce it's national security and economy, two fundamentals for any strong nation. I'm not sure how this is a wastage of money.
PS: I'm an Indian tax payer.
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#48Awesome. The more the merrier. India will become an economically powerful nation just like China is today. Just a matter of time.
I admire your optimism, but when a country exports it best and brightest talent to build other nations what hope does it ever have.
Mediocrity at best?
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Even if they get stuck at middle income for awhile, that's still like $10k nominal GDP per capita which would put them right around where China is today.
> Even if they get stuck at middle income for awhile
That isn’t the downside scenario. Countries that fail to ascend amidst population growth have a habit of collapsing and regressing, economically and politically. India has been doing a terrific job of traversing this terrain, a fact I largely ascribe to its democratic institutions.
But continued progress is far from a given. Ironically, one of the greatest risk factors is complacency from believing growth is inevitable. (This seems to be happening in China.)
Re: India is sending a rover to the moon, and the country is pumped
#50Well, India first needs to improve its poverty and the living standard of people instead of wasting money.
Why will going to the moon make it harder to improve people's standard of living in India? I wasn't aware that it was such a zero-sum game.