India Plans to Land on Moon's South Pole,However

[Clive Evans]

Some 70 percent of households in India don’t have access to toilets, whether in rural areas or urban slums. Roughly 60 percent of the country’s 1.2 billion people still defecate in the open ...

[y o y o y]

A scandal for sure.

[Long slender neck]

If there's no gravity won't they fall off?

[CreamofSumYungGai]

Lucky there was no poor people in the US of A in 1969.

[StockholmO]

I thought this was going to be a dodgy joke of some sort.

[Article_50]

Do we still give them £280 million a year in aid ??

[SalfordO]

Hope they don't defecate on the moon

[Clive Evans]

CreamofSumYungGai » Sun Jul 14, 2019 11:57 pm

Lucky there was no poor people in the US of A in 1969.

I reckon that is a pretty poor comparision.

[greyhound]

yes with our money you could not make it up.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Lucky there was no poor people in the US of A in 1969.

One of the other proposals from Kennedy was to create machinery and technology to purify sea water for people without access to clean water, even in the USA.

Instead they chose the vanity project.

[slacker]

There was a lot of domestic opposition to the Apollo programme from the civil liberties groups - anyone remember Gil Scott Heron’s “Whitey’s On The Moon”? - but in truth the Yanks wasted far more money (and lives) on the Vietnam campaign.

I get where the OP is coming from (and agree) but these things aren’t exactly a binary decision.

[Lovejoy]

How long before they open the first Indian Restaurant on the moon?

[CreamofSumYungGai]

Hope they don't defecate on the moon

[Buddy Manucci]

Despite of the previous argument, the flock of 104 satellites had created a “money squandering” hype around the world, criticising India for being too captivated by the pursuit of world records while acknowledging the fact that the economic downturn of India is indisputable. Is that really the case though?

With the recent launch, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that “India has the potential to be the launch service provider of the world and must work towards this goal.” The statement shows that ISRO have the capacity of dominating the space market with a low-cost technology without compromising the standards. Taking the aforementioned advantage, they succeed on launching their Mangalyaan satellite to Mars for the total cost of $75 million in 2014, only a mere fraction of what NASA spent for the same mission with a whopping $671million.

With the minimal capital expenditure, India would be able to extract huge profit from the $3 to $4 billion niche market for data imaging about climate, topography and defense. Hence, the hype mentioned earlier could be rebutted by the fact that the return of investment from the space industry will actually benefit the economic growth of India.

As a consequence of the positive revenue stream, it is a common-sense to conceive that space exploration brings money to India, not jeopardizing it. The low-cost technology had given India a competitive advantage towards their rivals in the market, hence returning promising social benefits to the country.

[Disoriented]

Hope they don't defecate on the moon

WTF?