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Originally Posted by techguyone
I don't know why you should be shocked - if we must spend circa £12B/yr at all, let's do it this way, rather than to give aid to Countries so poor they have their own space program etc.
Maybe this way we'll have something to show for it. We could call it 'foreign interest Investment' or similar.
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Interesting fact about the Indian space programme, in its 40 years of existence it's spent in total less than what nasa does in a year. Up until very recently it was solely used to put communication satellites up. It'd also be worth remembering the kerfuffle we kicked up when they had the temerity to buy their fighter planes of someone else, they asked us then was the aid money a bribe and that they didn't need it. imo they should've gone further and said we couldn't give a toss about your war on terror, helping you gather intelligence or setting up madrasas that don't spread an extremist message which iirc is what most of not all the aid money is assigned to.