India and Asian Space Race

[GreenerGrass]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7198546.stm



Money well spent eh? Way to go Gordon 'Saviour of Britain' Brown !

Are you trying to say spending hundreds of millions of tax payers money on educating the citizens of another country, at the expense of our own, so they can eventually provide further cut-price competition to our own "service sector workers" isn't in our national interest?

[Prometheus]

Fly me to the Moon
Show me what the spring is like - on Jupiter and Mars
In other words
Darling Kiss Me
In other words
Hold my hand

[Diver]

All aid to foreign countries should be scrapped until this country sorts itself out.

The government just refused to increase pensions here, saying they couldn't afford it.

WTF.

They can afford to send money to India, so that the Indian government can buy Nukes and fund space exploration.

They make me so fekin mad

[Masher]

Looks like the India noon mission has gone about as well as our outsourcing.

"India fireworks blast 'kills 18'"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7685583.stm

[BrilloPad]

I wish we could outsource parliament to India - give them a taste of their own medicine.

[expat]

It will actually increase India's technical know-how, create employment and have knock-ons for other industries in India and worldwide. It's good for India and not so good for us because it means yet more competition !!

OK, I admit it. A piece of insight from Cyberman.

I was going to post this counter-intuitive assertion (that it's a good move for India, not a waste), and I expected to be almost alone in it.

I'm not even sure that competition comes into it: Indian spacecraft, but with a British camera on board! Great.

[cupidstunt]

OK, I admit it. A piece of insight from Cyberman.

I was going to post this counter-intuitive assertion (that it's a good move for India, not a waste), and I expected to be almost alone in it.

I'm not even sure that competition comes into it: Indian spacecraft, but with a British camera on board! Great.

I preferred this explanation

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/i...-200810221345/

[lilelvis2000]

One way of reducing poverty is to provide jobs... something which a space programme and related industries will provide plenty of.

Don't forget that in countries like India, a job which in the UK might employ 1 (or less) people, in India labour is so cheap that about 5 would be employed.

Except of course that people in the lower castes find it difficult to get an education nevermind a job. Which is why many are inclined to convert to christianity or bhudism. And then, of course, they are beheaded by angry hindus.

[Cyberman]

I preferred this explanation

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/i...-200810221345/

My McAffe firewall gives me a massive warning on the above site !!!!

[Flashman]

Of course it's not all one way traffic. Britain gives lot money to India but India gives a lot to Britain.

This man has donated £4.2 million to the Labour party alone !

http://www.order-order.com/2008/10/f...-contrast.html