• @[email protected]
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    10 months ago

    It’s less impressive when you remember they’re letting the majority of Indian children live with severe malnourishment to do this…

    It’s like NK bragging about their rockets.

    When you don’t take care of the necessities, it’s easy to do other shit.

    Like a person wearing flashy clothes, driving new cars, and living in a giant house. Then finding out their over leveraged and bankrupt.

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    Downvoting won’t feed the children Modi is sacrificing

    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.

    https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00067-6/fulltext

    • @[email protected]
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      You’re being downvoted because you’ve zero clues here and you just run your agenda of hatred. You just want to diminish a country’s achievement by bringing in different stats. This is typical of country-hating citizens.

      As for how and what this achieves is ISRO is immensely profitable in bringing in foreign money to India. They do it by having cheapest and reliable spa e programs. They’re uncontested in this area now and all space agencies including private ones like SpaceX pays ISRO for their satellite launches.

      In case you don’t understand in your blind hatred, this pays for India’s space program and bring in a lot nore money as well.

      As for the other countries trying, Russia just tried and failed, NASA has both manned and unmanned launches to moon planned. So saying other countries are not doing this is false.

      Comparing NK rocket launch to this clearly how out of reality you’re.

      And finally, regarding your straw man argument of malnutrition, first of all it’s exactly that - straw man argument or whataboutism which has nothing to do with this achievement.

      Secondly, while malnutrition is a big issue and must be addressed, ending space program will do jackshit.

      Even further, Chandrayaan 3 is not Modi’s achievement anyway, so why bring Modi hate in India’s success story?

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        he’s being downvoted also because he’s literally spamming every single thread about the landing on every community and instance with same-text posts, only the usernames varies depending on instance.

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      All the countries with space programs have people in some form of dire strait. Starving, homeless, lack of medical care… Are you saying achievements like this aren’t allowed to take place at all until every problem is taken care of? I can assure you that at no point in civilization has there been times where someone wasn’t in a bad spot while society moved forward. Yeah, India has some big problems, and huge wealth disparity is a problem that many places face alongside India, but you can’t shut down progress because all the other problems can’t be solved.

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      Nah, it’s still very impressive. The two things aren’t necessarily related and you’ve presented zero evidence that they are. The entire idea that India’s options were “feed kids or go to space” is reductive to the point of absurdity. They could do both.

      In any case, exploring our solar system isn’t a luxury akin to owning a sports car. It’s science. It’s pushing the boundaries of human knowledge. It is incredibly valuable in a way that’s hard to quantify.

      And quite frankly, Modi had precious little to do with this. He’s a politician and this happened while he was in power. That’s it. It’s not like he was in the control room giving directions or turning a screwdriver or something.

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      India has a lot of problems, but investing in ISRO isn’t one of them. Satellites help in weather forecasting, cyclone monitoring, navigation and planning. ISRO also makes money by launching foreign satellites.

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      Pasting my reply in a separate comment by OP here.

      Ah… this person is a complete utter Indian/Modi hater. Read their comment history. I’ve replied to them in a previous comment related to India space techs. He kept throwing arguments that I believed in a (supposedly) Indian propaganda and Modi kept his people starving backed this same reference. When I see this post I wonder if they would be here throwing the same hatred. Lo and behold, who have I found.

      Edit. I’ve found their previous comment thread. Their comment began quite sound but getting ridiculous down the thread. According to them, It seemed no matter what, Indian space techs just an illusionary accomplishments where any other country can achieve (which is not true as my I put out a reply that my country can’t, and likely so for many other countries) and India shouldn’t invest in techs because their citizens are starving - which is ridiculous to me as we need to invest in knowledge to progress. Every country has to deal with countless domestic issues but that shouldn’t stop them progressing technology wise.