Buddy take my honest advice and never think someone is inferior,I see what you did there
Fellow member , you are misunderstanding me.
First I never joke , make fun or look down upon , while discussing Navy , Locomotives/Railways or Space. This was one of the reason I joined this forum.
Coming to my comment , I never meant to infer or to show by my words that any party is any less capable when it comes to giving something a try.
My only intent was to show that population does play a very big role when deciding on which frontiers of space does a nation needs to invest.
As in case of my nation , a very big part of the expenditure presently is
1. POWER ( OIL and GAS)
2. Services bought from west and Russia different production / scientific reasons.
And services from space is a very very big chunk.
You see a lot of nations have
1. Technology
2. Money both , but they aren't going building Space Launch vehicles, becoz the returns are negligible.
Singapore , Many European Nations, Arabs ,etc. They have money and access to technology both. But they don't have a population big enough to support.
You see even if ISRO doesn't get any foreign orders , it has in its market atleast 18% of whole mankind. That's good enough.
Anyways if my words caused something which I didn't intend , my apologies.