This is a wonderful achievement by India, sending a spacecraft to Mars:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/india-says-its-mars-spacecraft-on-course/2013/11/30/9b15b4ec-5a32-11e3-bdbf-097ab2a3dc2b_story.html
Some have questioned the $72 million price tag for a country of 1.2 billion people still dealing with widespread hunger and poverty. But the government defended the Mars mission, and its $1 billion space program in general, by noting its importance in providing high-tech jobs for scientists and engineers and practical applications in solving problems on Earth.
So ... their top priority is to provide "high-tech jobs for scientists and engineers" instead of feeding hungry people?
That sounds a lot like one of the top US priorities.
Possibly the meaning of "providing ... practical applications in solving problems on Earth" is to find a way for the rich to escape to a place of their own, leaving us behind to starve to death on a poisoned planet.
I vote for keeping them here to suffer along with the rest of us.
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