Do India's Space Program and Mars Mission Make Sense?

[RiazHaq]

Poor, backward, third-world countries like India need to focus on the hard work to uplift their mass of poor and hungry people above those in sub-Saharan Africa, not waste billions on rockets and satellites.

Pakistan's Suparco focuses on adv imaging, remote sensing, data collection, analysis 4 apps like weather forecast to resource mgmt

SUPARCO does it on a shoestring budget most of what ISRO does by wasting billions of dollars.

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[Skull and Bones]

Poor, backward, third-world countries like India need to focus on the hard work to uplift their mass of poor and hungry people above those in sub-Saharan Africa, not waste billions on rockets and satellites.

Pakistan's Suparco focuses on adv imaging, remote sensing, data collection, analysis 4 apps like weather forecast to resource mgmt

SUPARCO does it on a shoestring budget most of what ISRO does by wasting billions of dollars.

Pakistan's Space Program - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network

ISRO earns more than it spends, unlike SUPARCO.

 

[raja hindustani]

not waste billions on rockets and satellites

the mars mission costs $ 74 million not 'billions'. Our GDP is 26.7 THOUSAND times that, I think we can afford to 'waste' $ 74 million once in a year. Also ISRO earns money by launching satellites of other countries.

 

[Parul]

Foolishness and Pride goes hand in hand.

 

[nair]

 

[RiazHaq]

Total R&D spending in India is very low. Research community really suffers when it is starved of funds while the lion's share of it is spent on building a few booster rockets and satellites. So India's Mars mission hurts the badly needed research in crucial areas like improving nutrition, health, education and infrastructure.

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[zip]

Poor, backward, third-world countries like India need to focus on the hard work to uplift their mass of poor and hungry people above those in sub-Saharan Africa, not waste billions on rockets and satellites.

Pakistan's Suparco focuses on adv imaging, remote sensing, data collection, analysis 4 apps like weather forecast to resource mgmt

SUPARCO does it on a shoestring budget most of what ISRO does by wasting billions of dollars.

Pakistan's Space Program - PakAlumni Worldwide: The Global Social Network

First of all you need to write an article to improve school enrolment of pakistan children which is little more than half way mark ...After reading two or three of your articles i came to know that there is nothing but a false pride and little hatred in those ..You need to learn a lot before expecting someone to take you seriously..

 

[Parul]

Picture sums it aptly.

 

[Kyusuibu Honbu]

Total R&D spending in India is very low. Research community really suffers when it is starved of funds while the lion's share of it is spent on building a few booster rockets and satellites. So India's Mars mission hurts the badly needed research in crucial areas like improving nutrition, health, education and infrastructure.

WTF did i just read

"research in areas improving nutrition, health, education and infrastructure"

Closest i can sanely interpret your statement on health front, we have private sector R & D due to pharmaceutical giants. but the rest

Dude seriously?? You are out of your mind?? This doesn't come under research according to you??

How dare you question Riaz's intellect.

Its certified and proven by Riaz Haq musing blog that research in areas of materials science, metallurgy, Chemistry, Communications, Simulations using Supercomputers is not research.

Research is research only if - "research in crucial areas like improving nutrition, health, education and infrastructure."
Whatever that means

 

[MilSpec]

Another jem of thread from @RiazHaq .... as usual, the conceptual understanding of the term percentage is a miss... But then it is quite expected as the writer is a constant source of anti-India garbage. Atleast his fascination of sanitation has taken a break.

 

[thesolar65]

The topic is India's Mars mission and the legitimate debate around it as follows:

India's social indicators are like sub-Saharan Africa's while it is spending money on a space mission like countries far richer and far more developed. Does it make sense? Or is it more important for India to do the hard work by investing in social sector to lift the people to a higher standard of education and health which lead to great scientific achievements with fruits shared by all of the citizens?

As to the graphics, they are not gratuitous but related to the topic of lack of social development and general deprivation in India.

Please reflect on it. Don't be swayed by the angry reactions of some readers who respond with personal attacks and abuse to legitimate discussion on the issue of poverty and deprivation.

Forget about the Angry Readers (Are they angry or laughing?), just ask a unemployed youth or a poor villager in any part of India (who happens to know about this mission), He will also say " GO TO HELL"!!

 

[Bobby]

ISRO has earned much more than $74 million by launching other country satelite so stop burning your a$$es.
BTW MOM costs Rs. 4 per Indian.

 

[RiazHaq]

Foolishness and Pride goes hand in hand.

It's absolutely true for India which has social indicators of sub-Saharan Africa and spends billions on space like far richer and far more developed nations.

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ISRO has earned much more than $74 million by launching other country satelite so stop burning your a$$es.
BTW MOM costs Rs. 4 per Indian.

It's highly misleading to claim it cost only $74 million. It couldn't have been done without the ISRO infrastructure costing tens of billions of dollars.

 

[MilSpec]

^this is the most shameless google adsense campaign I have seen....

 

[RiazHaq]

Forget about the Angry Readers (Are they angry or laughing?), just ask a unemployed youth or a poor villager in any part of India (who happens to know about this mission), He will also say " GO TO HELL"!!

Life is already hell for poor Indian youth suffering from severe poverty and malnutrition.

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