[db1234]

Why India should continue to invest in space technology?

Odisha cyclone in 1999: 10,000 dead. Odisha cyclone of similar intensity in 2019: < 50 dead because ISRO was better equipped to track the cyclone path giving enough time for Govt to evacuate people to safety.

Ignore the ignorant including "liberal", "progressive" publications like NYT which publish racist cartoons on Indian space program.

[galuggus]

Could you link an example of this kind of cartoon?

edit: here's a link https://archive.is/g0msl Shocking that the NYT published something like this

[sumedh]

What is shocking/offensive about that?

[elkos]

And ISRO has a very very competitive polar low earth orbit commercial ride-sharing program.

[angelgonzales]

I’m sure that India used its own observation satellites to predict weather patterns and storms but western weather observation satellites monitor the whole Earth and share the information. Not every country should (or can) have its own national weather satellite installation.

https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/current-satellite-missions/curre...

[fooker]

If a country becomes dependent on information (or anything really) like that, it becomes a bargaining tool for geopolitics.

The US, in particular is notorious about weaponizing sanctions.

[kumarvvr]

Building a capability to predict weather patterns, implies, development of a slew of technologies, building an infrastructure to produce engineers and scientists, leasing out of those technologies to startups and other engineering enterprises to make better use of them.

Its not about just using the data.

[programmer_dude]

The predictions made by your (US) meteorological department were wrong. Many would have died if we relied on you. Our meteorological department does better when it comes to local weather.

[geodel]

So instead of anything useful to say about technology being developed by ISRO. You come up with this random rant.

I guess I just ignore the ignorant, including "deeply insecure" and raging about minor criticism.

[alephnerd]

I'm Desi American and honestly, HN commentators from both India and the US need to stop being little bitches. It's made HN go to shit.

Boomer American HN commentators - stop being so god damn racist about South Asians. Caste and poverty doesn't define us.

Millenial+Uncle Indian HN commentators - stop using the "school shooting" trope and ultranationalism. Y'all are basically acting like Wumao.

Bring on the downvotes. I'm so sick of all the bullshit on this site

[pkphilip]

As Indians lets not push our chest out a bit too much...plenty of people getting lynched in India on a regular basis

[celticninja]

So you think they possibly saved 9950 lives, yet a vastly greater number live in poverty and a huge proportion of them are children with no access to healthcare and education, many of them begging in the streets. But yes let's give India a round of applause for finding a minor benefit to their $2bn spending on space exploration (also ignoring the fact that they are not really achieving new science that is not or could not be done by more developed nations).

[paper2d]

What? There are literally hundreds of other uses of our space program which if we hadn't developed independently, we would be paying exorbitant prices to other nations for the same. Launching rockets costs us literally 10x lower cost than other nations. This thing doesn't benefit Indians only but other nations as well.

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