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Re:A letter to our daughter by ams6110 on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:16PM (#10660907)
$45B is not enough to change governments. That's about 4 days worth of US federal spending.
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Re:A letter to our daughter by wheels on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:59AM (#10661438)
It's more than the annual budgets of about 2/3rds of the world's countries, including places like Croatia, or the Philippines. I'd call that politically significant.
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Re:A letter to our daughter by HaloZero on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @11:25PM (#10660948)
Yeah but it's more than enough to bribe the hell out of a lot of senators.
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Re:A letter to our daughter by kamaal on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:16PM (#10664714)
ISRO spent a mere $73 million to go to mars. Big and small are perspectives between what one can do and what one can't.
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