India's Chandrayaan-1 helped discover water on moon's surface
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Someone linked to a wikipedia list of "most expensive objects" and I couldn't help but notice how many of them were a waste of good money.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_most_expensiv...
Firstly, what's bad money?
Secondly, of that list, which ones do you think were a waste?
How can the ISS cost 37 times more than the MIR space station?
Also, why isn't the birds nest staduim in Beijing on the list? Was it cheaper? What about the different canals that was built in the USSR?
It is interesting to see that a single B-2 costs more than a space shuttle.
However, the title appropriately said "..helped discover.." and not "..discovered..".
This is India's first lunar mission. I know that it was not a complete success (we lost contact with the mission couple of weeks ago..), but it wasn't a failure either.
This mission, which costed a paltry $76M was able to be part of a historical discovery. So, it is appropriate to acknowledge the "Third World Country" which built it.