[cscurmudgeon]

> What do those line mean? Who asked people to just eat, reproduce and die? How is something worse or better than poverty I do not know.

If you can't understand that, I don't know what to say. Ask yourself this: why should poverty be reduced? The same rationale can be applied to why we need "space wizardry."

> No where in the parent comment or on this complete conversation it has been said that expenditure on Mangalyaan is unnecessary or wasteful.

How about this:

> No space wizardry, just basic engineering.