I guess you never had an intro to comp sci class where it was taught that RAM and ROM are primary memory, disks are secondary MEMORY and tape backups are tertiary MEMORY. All RAM is memory but all memory is not RAM.

I guess you couldnt understand my language. I do have a tendency to use long complicated sentences. What I said was govt should not use capital to generate jobs as any way govt gathers capital has a cost in jobs. This does not mean govt should not gather capital to use for basic science as the advancement of the tech base has a much larger multiplier effect than welfare (which has a zero multipler effect) and any jobs lost is worth the cost to advance the tech base. Of course if the USA would sell this tech and train our scientists in these technology it would cost even less but nationalist and chauvenestic lobbies like the guys who made their careers on non proliferation will not let basic science to be shared.

Well having cool things to do for brilliant scientists makes sure the brilliant scientists stay in the country instead of leaving and contributing to the success of NASA and hence opening up the tech gap even more. And if brilliant people stay in the country the second string of people also stay back thinking they might have a shot at doing the cool things and while they wait for their shot they do other things which helps the countries tech base and economy. Just to say if Europe hadnt funded CERN saying basic physics is not worth doing Tim Berners Lee wouldnt have been at the right place and time to invent the WEB. Who knows 5 years from now a brilliant young Indian scientist who stayed back in India inspired by Chandrayaan could invent something equally world changing. For the small amount of money spent on ISRO ( its not even the amount collected as parking tickets in any big Indian city) the potential paybacks are huge. Its like being allowed to play the lottery but with tickets cost .001 cents and jackpots in the billions and with only 5 countries playing the game giving you a 20% chance of hitting the jackpot- you would be a fool to not play and instead donate the .001 cent to charity.

The root cause of poverty in India is a lack of capital for industry as for 300 years all excess capital was sucked out of the country and stored in London. That London is the financial capital of the world has a lot to do with the wealth sucked out of India. Before the arrival of the British India had the highest per capita income in the world and it will have the same status again one day but 60 years of independence are not enough to catchup on the capital deficit of 300 years of colonialism. Nor is India an undeveloped area like the America or Oceania where there are excess resources for the taking (the easily available resources were all extracted in the last 4000 years of civilization and the resultant wealth was looted in 300 years of colonialism) India needs to catchup and doing basic science and technology is what we need to do as we are not sitting on a shitload of oil (the root cause of American prosperity) nor did we have colonies(the root cause of European prosperity). Wasting time on stupid European concepts like socialism and welfare is the last thing we need to do. Thankfully Nehru and his generation of Anglophile Brown sahibs are dead and gone and we can get on with the task of building real wealth through hard work rather than expecting handouts. And if lack of capital is the problem the governemnt can hardly solve the problem of job generation as the government itself has no capital other than what it raises through taxes and pump priming through government bailouts of a particular sector generates fewer jobs than the jobs lost in other sectors of the economy due to the higher taxes which are made necessary to pay for bailouts. In short governments cant do anything about alleviating poverty other than provide a level playing field- anything else is just playing with lies, damn lies and statistics.

The govts job is not to serve individuals , it is to serve society and do not everything which needs to be done but only that which needs to be done AND cannot be done by the private sector. jobs are best generated by the private sector. The govts job is to provide the regulatory framework like enforcement of contracts, environment standards, carrying out of unprofitable basic research which allow the private sector to create the jobs needed without endangering the safety of society just to increase profit margins. Job creation, poverty alleviation, CHARITY are things best left to the private sector(Mind you a properly regulated private sector not the American model where its OK to be unethical and break laws as long as you bribe/lobby the appropiate politicians or were classmates at an IVY league school with the guy supposed to be regulating you. Thats just crony capitalism which privatizes the profits and socializes the risks)
India tried the socialist model but it didnt work. Hopefully India will not do the mistake of following the crony capitalist American model and stick to pure well regulated capitalism like Scandinavia.
So again I say India needs to spend on space till the day it becomes commercially viable and then shift the funds to the next area of basic research. No amount of dole, social security, welfare, disability benefits will solve the problem of poverty. All men are NOT created equal and there will always be more successfull and less successfull people- the govts job is not to pick winners or give consolation prizes to the losers- it is to keep the game fair.

O cmon Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon were " Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for... Sardarji aap yaha?"

Combating poverty is not the governments job. If the poor dont want to be poor anymore they can work harder and pull themselves out of poverty. The govt is meant to do things the private sector cannot and at present space exploration is something the govt cant do. If the money was not spent on space it could be spent on some other research but poverty alleviation or as I call it bread and circuses is a waste of money.

What is this worldview you keep mentioning? Is it a view of the world from the ISS?

But didn't you get the memo(also called the Koran) - God isnt Christian. Time to rethink your philosophy :)

But my proof of God does not exist is that the CTW exists. If there existed a god he would not allow the existence of such a flawed philosophy as CTW hence God does not exist.

So you are saying

What a load of hogwash. I think you are ready to be the next carpentor who starts a famous cult.

or not.. what the article has found is not just that organisms evolve but also some of them evolve to forms which are not going to evolve any more (think cockroaches) as they dont have the proteins which make them more suited to handle mutations in a favourable manner while other organisms do have these proteins and are better suited for further evolving. Now there may be organisms which evolve to superbly suit their niche in the ecosystem but in the process lose the capacity to further evolve. Such organisms(think dinosaurs) would rule over the more adaptable ones (think mammals) until some sudden event which requires rapid evolution comes along. In such a changed environment the old rulers could be wiped out if they couldnt eveolve fast enough and the losers may evolve to be the new rulers - The king is dead, long live the king. (Or in evolutionary terms - The dinosaurs are dead, long live the Primates). What is fun is that the scientists have found proteins involved in negative feedback of mutations and positive feedback of mutations. This means certain species could have only positive feedback control proteins which means any mutation they have go absolutely nuts as the mutations cause more mutations and so on. It would mean species which create new sub species at the drop of a hat. I am thinking tropical fish. If such control chains could be brought to humans it would speed up human evolution and differentiation which has pretty much stopped as our environment is too friendly nowadays (e.g. we dont leave the weakest to be eaten by the predator we build wheelchair ramps for them so no way are we going to evolve away from spinal bifidia). So if we want to evolve further either we go back to being animals and abandon the weak or speed up evolution by artificial means by destabilizing our DNA. This would mean knocking out some of the negative feedback control chains and adding extra positive feedback control chains. Yes these would create more kids to be born with birth defects but our society already takes good care of the handicapped but it would also lead to the birth of kids with unique abilities. So now we know how the X-Men can be created - knock out the control proteins.