[tanakachen]

Note to the downvoters: They automatically assume I said it’s not worth it. But actually I simply said we should question it, meaning consider it from all sides.

Is analyzing things before during and after making decisions no longer an acceptable thing to do in 2019?

[blinkingled]

So how much do you think the Indians are spending on the space mission, how much of it should be taken away and applied towards poverty elimination and how exactly do you see that working? Hand over the money, build toilets, food rationing, power availability - all of that they are doing in parallel to their space program and those aren't things that just magically disappear by throwing more money at them.

This is false dichotomy - one doesn't have to cease for other to exist and ceasing one doesn't automatically make the other better.

[kmallen]

> So how much do you think the Indians are spending on the space mission, how much of it should be taken away and applied towards poverty elimination and how exactly do you see that working?

All very good questions. I think the act of asking them is more important than merely stating that the space program is either worth it or not worth it.