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When it's a country you are talking about, you have to plan for centuries and not the next decade. Being myopic will only hurt. It's not like building toilets and launching satellites are an either/or.

Besides launching satellites is a very profitable business for India. So why not?

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That was exactly my point. Totally lost on HN. Every time we have, "India did x in tech", we get, "but they don't have toilets".

i don't know. our own governments tend to think about the next 3-6 years; not even a decade. centuries? hah that's well beyond what is politically profitable

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