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Indian Defence Ministry set to replace windows with home-grown "Maya OS" (news.itsfoss.com)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Exactly.

Thanks for the example!

They didn't accomplish their main goals or any research they said they'd do. But because it continued to orbit for longer than the mission (that failed) would have taken... They celebrate as a success and "proof" that theyre a world power.

I really don't think you meant to, but this is exactly what I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (9 children)

The very fact that they can send working spacecraft is already an accomplishment. How many countries can do that?

They are not yet a world power even if they claim to be. No doubt about that. But they are projected to become one in the not so near future. No doubt about that too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

No, any country that wants to pay for it can.

India prioritized it over other things like this:

India's latest National Family Health Survey (NFHS), which shows that children in several states are more undernourished now than they were five years ago, is based on data collected in 2019-20. The survey was conducted in only 22 states before the onset of the pandemic - so experts fear the results will be much worse in the remaining states, where the survey began after the lockdown ended.

In places such as Dahod, however, the problem seems to have begun earlier. The district has seen a steep rise in the proportion of undernourished children compared with 2015-16, when the last survey was conducted.

Stunting among children under five in Dahod is up from 44% to 55%. And the proportion of severely underweight children in the district has risen from 7.8% to 13.4%.

Most Indian women are anaemic and poor women, especially so. And since undernourished mothers give birth to undernourished babies, experts say the worsening rate of malnutrition could be a result of women struggling to access nutrition benefits.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56080313

I'm not going to clap because Modi decided a pointless space mission that might trick people into thinking India was a world power is more important then the worst childhood malnourishment rates in the world.

He's letting children starve and develop life long issues so people like you do what you're doing right now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

what made you think India prioritised it over those things?

the budget for ISRO is much, much lower than the budget that goes towards programs to fix poverty related issues. ISRO is 0.27% of the indian budget.

the remote sensing satellites have helped farmers, fishermen with actual food production, weather satellites with predicting disasters and saving lives.

for us its worth the investment even without factoring in the nice to haves like finding water on the moon or launching private satellites.

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