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India launches space mission to the sun a week after moon landing
(www.theguardian.com)
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Still waiting for them to launch a mission to get rid of the caste system
How is that related to the space mission? Or are we trying to make this look like a Reddit comment section now? It’s an issue in India but that’s not relevant to their accomplishments in space exploration now is it?
It is when so much of their population struggles in poverty 🙃
Over 40 million Americans are living below the poverty line (12 million of those are children), that's 12% of the population of the country. To compare and contrast India's got 150 million people living below the poverty line with a population of 1.4 billion, that's 10% of their population. Yet we spend $33 billion on our space program. For those playing at home India's moon landing cost around $75 million.
To pull the poverty card on India for starting a space program that is lifting up their people's national self worth is just about the most imperialist thing you could do.
That's the spirit, lick the boot homie. Next you'll say Modi is a good leader