Did Chandrayaan find water on Moon’s surface?

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Am I the only one that wonders why India even bothers with a space program, considering the massive numbers of people living in poverty in that country?
I for one, even wonder why there is even a space program full stop, beyond the needed communications and GPS and weather sats. The rest is good money after pointless.
 

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What many of you do not know about India's space program is that they have mostly launched satellites to help Indian people, they have education satalites so they can teach kids in rural India without having teachers in class, satellites for farmers, and they also do medical operations or assist in medical operations through these forms of communication. Just do a search on google and you will find out how many amazing things the Indian space program is doing for the country. This is just a natural progression for India and for that matter any country.
This sounds like a cut and paste job from some Indian Propaganda website.

Would it not be cheaper to...

- Pay the teachers a little extra money to move?
- satellites for farmers??? WTF? These just weather satellites? Why aren't 'old fashioned' techniques ok to use to source farming land? A sat isn't going to give you a pH reading of the dirt.
- Medical operations I'll give you, in the absence of mobile/internet coverage in some of the remote areas. But even then, if there are these services, I see it as pointless.

I've got nothing against space programmes, great things have come out of them.

To a certain extent though I also think part of it is simply 'a mines bigger than yours contest'.
 
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