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A comment on Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama. Parent comment

Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by eric_h on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:08AM (#10239267)
It is $720 million built on top of the shoulders of billions and billions of dollars of the failures and successes of missions that preceded it.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by moron4hire on Friday September 18, 2015 @10:15AM (#10239302)
That's not how accounting works. If it did, I'd personally be worth billions, too.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by ahuth on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:10AM (#10239616)
Pretty sure he/she's not talking about accounting.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by eric_h on Friday September 18, 2015 @11:33AM (#10239764)
Indeed, my point was that arguing that the pluto mission cost "only" $720 million and thus comparing the value of the products of this mission as less than the acquisitions of Oculus at $2B and Mojang at $2.5B does a great disservice to this achievement.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by moron4hire on Saturday September 19, 2015 @08:45PM (#10246116)
No, that's not what I was doing. I wasn't saying price = value. I was specifically trying to say the opposite, that such an obviously valuable project had come at an incredibly cheap price, comparatively.
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Re:Pluto ‘Wows’ in Spectacular New Backlit Panorama by eric_h on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @05:47PM (#10261945)
Fair enough. Honestly I also think the comparison demonstrates how over valued those acquisitions were (in terms of what they bring to the human race).
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