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How do you expect Indian Physicists to get employment by building toilets ? Or by going around with begging bowls to Germany and collect some food. Your argument is so much racist in multitude of ways, why the heck there is Royal Society of Science when there was poverty in London in 1800s. May be India has no right to build labs till all Indians are fed ? FYI, India produces more grain than it consumes the problem is logistical, economical and political. There is no wide spread hunger deaths, even though abject poverty is a reality. Having a mars program or science lab is not stopping India from resolving these issues. Please just go away, when you have no idea what you are talking about. There are 47 million people on food stamps in america and 1 in 3 children in US go hungry at night. So may be we should close NASA and Stanford and wait till this problem is resolved.

Correction: My 1 in 3 was based on ads of North Texas food bank, apparently it is incorrect. As others replied it is close to 1 in 5.

>in america and 1 in 3 children in US go hungry at night

Really. I would love to see your source for that.

think its more like 1 in 5 according to [1]

[1]: http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...

20% in 37 states are food insecure, which apparently is some new term to do with nutritional requirements, I assume that means they are eating junk food. Pretending children are starving in the US makes India look better but is dishonest.

Possibly closer to 20%. http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...

But the point still stands: implying "India has to get its house in order, but America's solved enough problems to be morally justified pursuing the deeper mysteries of the universe" is a pretty arbitrary drawing of a line in the sand.

> There is no wide spread hunger deaths

Here is the first Google result I got:

"India's hunger 'shame': 3,000 children die every day, despite economic growth".

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/02/16/10424930-india...

Let's say you have $10, you can feed yourself for $10 or you can go hungry today and invest that $10 for $20 back tomorrow... tomorrow, you can feed yourself and invest the rest for more back the next day.

Your vision lacks forethought. Tomorrow you can feed many times more people with the yield from today's investment than you could today if you didn't invest.

That would be great if detecting neutrinos was related to India's food industry.

That's a sick comment, just like the top one in this thread. You would probably call investing anything in studying Einstein's General theory of Relativity as a waste of money for Indians as well right? That serves to make accurate GPSs, which is an industry in itself, generating employment. Should India wait until feeding the last hungry before making ANY technological progress? Which part of world you are living in?

Engineers often focus on problems they can see. If they were at CERN they would not see India's problems, they would be a world away. Cool things like this are doubly useful in places where there is great need, as they attract bright people like lightbulbs attract moths.

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