UK Aid to India put to good use

[Scuffers]

India launches largest rocket and unmanned capsule

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-3052760...

wonder how much that costs?

[muffinmenace]

How many UK designed and manufactured parts were in it?

[Scuffers]

muffinmenace said:

How many UK designed and manufactured parts were in it?

you tell me?

and are we supposed to give stuff away? how long would a commercial business last if they give stuff away all the time?

[trashbat]

Can a nation afford a space programme whilst it has such high numbers of poor and starving?

I say yes.

[markiii]

it can because they don't give a st about their poor

and until they do neither should we

[boyse7en]

markiii said:

it can because they don't give a st about their poor

and until they do neither should we

But if they just used the money to buy food/medicine for teh poor, then that would be great for about a week, then they would run out of money and still have millions of poor.
Creating a space industry using the money cold (one would hope) lead to job creation, improved education, industrial manufacturing spin offs, inward investment (from companies wanting to launch satellites).

Buy a man a fish...

[Axionknight]

Oh yes, I can easily see the flat broke beggar in the street benefitting from the Indian Space Programme - how did I miss that before?

[Scuffers]

boyse7en said:

But if they just used the money to buy food/medicine for teh poor, then that would be great for about a week, then they would run out of money and still have millions of poor.
Creating a space industry using the money cold (one would hope) lead to job creation, improved education, industrial manufacturing spin offs, inward investment (from companies wanting to launch satellites).

Buy a man a fish...

Oh, righty ho, lets all start space launch programmes then! sure fire winner!

(Let's face it, Ariane costs us all a packet and with Space X under-cutting them by 75% just how profitable do you think it will be?)

[Grumfutock]

boyse7en said:

But if they just used the money to buy food/medicine for teh poor, then that would be great for about a week, then they would run out of money and still have millions of poor.
Creating a space industry using the money cold (one would hope) lead to job creation, improved education, industrial manufacturing spin offs, inward investment (from companies wanting to launch satellites).

Buy a man a fish...

So if I use your own logic, we should not give India any aid and instead invest it in starting our own space program. Thereby creating jobs, education blah blah blah. We will all then be rich and can help India better.

[BlackLabel]

Axionknight said:

Oh yes, I can easily see the flat broke beggar in the street benefitting from the Indian Space Programme - how did I miss that before?

Their space programme has led to more accurate weather predictions. India is a nation which gets a fair few cyclones - if you look at the numbers dead in these cyclones now vs 10+ years ago there is a stark difference. It's not all a vanity project.

I don't think we should give them any aid (it's stopping this year anyway however it should have stopped sooner) however just because a nation has lots of poor people it shouldn't mean that they aren't allowed to spend money on science and tech.

[trashbat]

Grumfutock said:

So if I use your own logic, we should not give India any aid and instead invest it in starting our own space program. Thereby creating jobs, education blah blah blah. We will all then be rich and can help India better.

Hasn't that already happened?

[Pixel Pusher]

Think how quickly you could get a takeaway delivered with that though.

[trashbat]

Axionknight said:

Oh yes, I can easily see the flat broke beggar in the street benefitting from the Indian Space Programme - how did I miss that before?

Do you think that the poor (choose a percentile) in America have a better quality of life than the poor in India? Why might that be?

[Eric Mc]

Axionknight said:

Oh yes, I can easily see the flat broke beggar in the street benefitting from the Indian Space Programme - how did I miss that before?

I bet the 10,000 people who DIDN'T drown in the huge typhoon that struck eastern India earlier this year might have some positive words to say about Indian space expenditure.

[Eric Mc]

Grumfutock said:

So if I use your own logic, we should not give India any aid and instead invest it in starting our own space program.

What space programme?