Guile.

Because the killings were done somewhere else probably.

The manned expeditions should include the Brits... that way they can take Mars bars with them.

Bit embarassing, no?

We're not talking about uncultured savages. We're talking about one of the oldest continuous civilisations in the world.

You let a few thousand Jeremies and Archibalds trick you into giving up your wealth and freedom by guile?

That's a shitty attitude towards history (not only Greeks play this card way too often unfortunately) but don't worry, the Turks also have a very distorted image of what the Ottoman Empire meant for the vassal countries. (God forbid one reminds them about slavery in the Ottoman Empire)
It's funny how everyone tries to have their cake and eat it.

Yes. If you are capable of making the connection between culture, honesty and trust.

Lol.

At least I'm beginning to understand why Indian soldiers grow those absurd moustaches.

Got to compensate for the shame!

Hey, you're right! All the British can lay claim to is slavery and genocide. But at least they didn't tell their victims that they were sub-human. Not to their faces.

Whilst you'll be hard pushed to find a country in the world where slavery has never been practiced, Britain can lay claim to being the first to abolish it. That's enlightenment for you.

You might want to start with the country you've been so eager to malign, along with most of her neighbours.

But whatabout...

The pioneering Chandrayaan-1 — India's first moon probe, and the first spacecraft to return compelling evidence of lunar water .

Why a 'poor' country should spend on a space programme.

ISRO's PSLV successfully puts two UK earth observation satellites into orbit

"...in three years between April 2015 and March 2018, the Indian Space programme earned Rs 5,600 crore. It launched 99 satellites - 69 of which were foreign satellites - including several student and university satellites."

(Rs 5600 crore = £ 588,868,000)

I wonder if the profits from ISRO go back into infrastructure and development and education that will benefit the poor. I doubt it. I think the profit generated was around 127 billion USD in 2016 and its annual budget is 1.5 billion. That seems like a lot is going somewhere else?

Where else? If you are talking corruption etc, that may be true but only in a very small part with the current dispensation.

If the profits are being ploughed back into the space / sat-com-nav area, whats wrong with that?

Only 1.5 billion of 127 billion, if the budget compared to the actual profits are concerned at least according to what a I read about it online.

I think its great that India has a space programme, but it also needs to address its poverty too, which is off the scale especially if India wants to be considred a superpower. I dont think that the Indian government has much concern for the poor.

How is this happening then? And you will be surprised by the current data, if you care about data, that is.




I dont want to offend but a sweeping generalised statement like "I dont think that the Indian government has much concern for the poor." displays prejudice at worst, and lack of information at least.

Joining the select space club of United States, Russia and China, India became the fourth country in the world to shoot down a low-orbit satellite with a missile, announced Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.e725900a09eb

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/w...sile-modi.html

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/...071419578.html