Chandrayaan-3 live: India's Vikram lander makes historic Moon landing - BBC News
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The Vikram lander touches down to become the first spacecraft to land near the Moon's south pole.
    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
      351·
      2 years ago

      Pretty sure those two things are unrelated. It’s possible to do science, and have social safety nets. Let’s at least not be disingenuous here about the issue.

      • Skua@kbin.social
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        2 years ago

        Especially when ISRO’s entire budget is less than half of one per cent of India’s federal government budget. Uttar Pradesh’s government budget alone is fifty times ISRO’s.

        • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
          111·
          2 years ago

          You’re up on your high horse about it. But it does happen in other countries. No reason India would be different.

    • monke@kbin.social
      272·
      2 years ago

      Bro has made it his life mission to talk shit about India and ISRO. I mean just look at this guy’s comment history.

        • monke@kbin.social
          16·
          2 years ago

          recent ones was also downplaying Modi letting lower caste children starve…

          Lol what?! When did I? Care to link the comment where I downplayed Modi letting children starve? You’re straight up lying now, aren’t you?

          Aren’t you the same guy who said India launching 104 satellites (96 of them were American in fact) in one go made “no logical sense” but was done just for PR? Aren’t you also the same guy who said India is not capable of building a linux distro? (My brother in Christ, we just landed a fucking spacecraft on the moon 😂). Your disdain for my country couldn’t be more blatant. And of course you had to label me a “far right extremist” for calling out your bullshit

    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      232·
      2 years ago

      There are children starving, why are you wasting money on an internet subscription? Or electricity for that matter. You monster. /s

        • smallaubergine@kbin.social
          61·
          2 years ago

          Or if I took money from their families to pay for moon missions

          That’s not how large democracies work, my friend. It’s not some dictatorship they can instantly move money around to solve problems with. In fact India spends WAYYYYYY more on welfare than it does on ISRO. It’s something like 2 billion USD to 250 billion USD. In fact the problem isn’t just money its how its distributed, corruption, etc. If the Indian government decided to defund ISRO and put that money to welfare, it would be a tiny drop in a massive bucket. Defunding ISRO would also have major ramifications on their aerospace industry, many thousands would be out of jobs, those with higher educations would leave the country to find opportunities. Have you looked at how India is doing with abject poverty in the past 20 years? The graphs are all trending down. Is it perfect? absolutely not. Every country could do something better, India has a lot of things it needs to work on. In my opinion, building up its own indigienous space industry is a net positive for India and is not taking money away from poor people.

          What I’m getting at is it’s so easy to criticize a nation for their faults without looking at the complex socioeconomic and political issues at hand.

    • whiskers@lemmings.worldEnglish
      162·
      2 years ago

      ISRO took the fuel efficient route. That’s why a mission launched in July is landing now. Russia’s crashed lander reached moon in ~13 days. They are already quite concious of spending their research grants wisely.

      I’m surprised by these people who bring up their hatred filled political agenda at every opportunity. Why don’t you go start an India bashing circle jerk community or instance and please remain there.

        • whiskers@lemmings.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          No one wants to see children starve. We can discuss that if you make a separate post about it backed with a reference to facts.

          Hijacking this and every other post about Chandrayaan with anti-India politics is not the way. This post is about a scientific milestone and let all discussions be regarding that. Show some courtesy and you’ll get better discussion on the points that you bring up.