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Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by bobosha »

lemma wrote: post #67
Tloewald wrote: post #62

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LBJ did more to address poverty than any president save Roosevelt. If you're going to ask that specific question, ask about the money wasted on the Vietnam war and mayne the space program -- medicare/medicaid and the "Great Society" programd directly tackled poverty, and LBJ passed the civil rights act which, oh by the way, was Kennedy's legacy. Fixing healthcare is one way of directly addressing poverty. You can arg…

I read those as rhetorical questions and think you two may actually be in agreement.

Exactly! Sorry I missed the sarcasm tag. :-)

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by cloudwalking »

joering2 wrote: post #72
cloudwalking wrote: post #35

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Why would they care about US government debt? Nothing about government debt is detrimental to the human condition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998%E2%80%932002_Argentine_gre... Even better, read entire wiki article. Can you make same statement again?

This is talking about the Argentinian government defaulting on their debt. That has literally nothing to do with US government accruing more debt.

So yes, I have no problem making that statement.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by fuhrer1996 »

rttlesnke wrote: post #60
fuhrer1996 wrote: post #25

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Worth looking at: http://www.quora.com/Robert-Frost-Quora-user/What-are-Robert...

Read the answer and the comments on it. What do experts have to say about this?

Well, Robert Frost /is/ an expert. He works at NASA. But I guess he was in a bit of a bad mood. That whole month, he kept getting A2A's about MOM.

Re: Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars

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Post by joey2714 »

chattoraj wrote: post #14

Before someone makes the inevitable "Why are they spending money on this instead of fixing poverty?" argument: The whole Mars mission costs about as much as making four Bollywood movies. http://www.firstpost.com/india/ten-price-tags-to-put-isro-ma...

Did I do the conversion right? Total cost was only ~72 million USD??

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Post by vfclists »

gaius wrote: post #56
vfclists wrote: post #53

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There is always this tendency to confuse inequity with poverty. India's problem is inequity not poverty, just as it is in America. There is also the reason why Western Europeans and Americans whose combined population does not equal that of India should be judgmental about their choices. Why should it be okay to for white people to tell brown people what they should or shouldn't do with their resources, not to mentio…

No, India's problem is real, actual, no-clean-water, no-antibiotics, no-electricity poverty, in most of the rural areas.

Poverty or no poverty, blue sky research is also necessary for an ancient civilization with over 1 billion people. They can't expect to depend on the rest of the world for all their technological needs.

Again the material resources for poverty reduction exists and I don't think those resources required for space exploration don't diminish them.

Financial or monetary allocation isn't quite the same as material resource allocation. In most of the world material resources are deployed by financial resources and the allocation of these is wholly arbitrary. Such as in America where trillions have allocated for the payment of odious and criminal bank debts and war in Afghanistan and Iraq, when health and housing provision is woefully inadequate.

Do homeless people in America have good access to clean water, electricity and antibiotics?

How is that different from India?

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