India's Chandrayaan-3 becomes the first space mission to land near the south pole of the Moon
The Vikram lander touches down to become the first spacecraft to land near the Moon's south pole.
Fuck yea!
An amazing accomplishment. Lots of bad news recently but this definitely goes into the good pile.
All it took for them to afford the PR mission was decades of ignoring starving children!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext
Don't worry, India has a caste system so they made sure the "right" kids didn't starve...
The prevalence of Zero-Food in India marginally declined from 20.0% (95% CI: 19.3%–20.7%) in 1993 to 17.8% (95% CI: 17.5%–18.1%) in 2021. There were considerable differences in the trajectories of change in the prevalence of Zero-Food across states. Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, and Jammu and Kashmir experienced high increase in the prevalence of Zero-Food over this time period, while Nagaland, Odisha, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh witnessed a significant decline. In 2021, Uttar Pradesh (27.4%), Chhattisgarh (24.6%), Jharkhand (21%), Rajasthan (19.8%) and Assam (19.4%) were states with the highest prevalence of Zero-Food. As of 2021, the estimated number of Zero-Food children in India was 5,998,138, with the states of Uttar Pradesh (28.4%), Bihar (14.2%), Maharashtra (7.1%), Rajasthan (6.5%), and Madhya Pradesh (6%) accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total Zero-Food children in India. Zero-Food in 2021 was concerningly high among children aged 6–11 months (30.6%) and substantial even among children aged 18–23 months (8.5%). Overall, socioeconomically advantaged groups had lower prevalence of Zero-Food than disadvantaged groups.
Pretty sure those two things are unrelated. It's possible to do science, and have social safety nets. Let's at least not be disingenuous here about the issue.
Especially when ISRO's entire budget is less than half of one per cent of India's federal government budget. Uttar Pradesh's government budget alone is fifty times ISRO's.
Oh...
You think they have the money/resources to do both and just choose not to help those areas filled with the people on the bottom rung of India's caste system?
I'll be honest, I didn't think Modi would be that evil... But your right, maybe he wants the children in those areas to starve to death and that's why his government won't help even tho they can
Bro has made it his life mission to talk shit about India and ISRO. I mean just look at this guy's comment history.
Quick edit:
That's weird, you go days without commenting and some of the most recent ones was also downplaying Modi letting lower caste children starve... I'm sure that has nothing to do with the Indian flag in your bio....
Easy block tho, I don't like far right extremists regardless of their country of origin.
There are children starving, why are you wasting money on an internet subscription? Or electricity for that matter. You monster. /s
ISRO took the fuel efficient route. That's why a mission launched in July is landing now. Russia's crashed lander reached moon in ~13 days. They are already quite concious of spending their research grants wisely.
I'm surprised by these people who bring up their hatred filled political agenda at every opportunity. Why don't you go start an India bashing circle jerk community or instance and please remain there.
I’m surprised by these people who bring up their hatred filled political agenda
Yes...
Truly the issue isn't the far right religious extremists in charge of India...
It's people pointing out India's problems on social media.
What's millions of starving children from the "wrong" social caste when people's feelings are getting hurt?!
The cost of Chandrayaan-3 was literally less than some of the recent film budgets. Hunger is an issue in India, but that won't be solved by cutting funds for science. In fact, the Indian government needs to be doing more to improve the scientific temper among the populace. There are a lot of things wrong with India, but ISRO is not one of them.
