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Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by robotresearcher on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:54PM (#12766598)
> [Apollo] cost billions of dollars

I looked it up - around $20.4B in 1960s dollars, so $160B today. $20B per mooon landing. Not counting Mercury or Gemini.

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1579/1

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Re:Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power... by nickpsecurity on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:12PM (#12766669)
Wow. Much higher than I remembered. It's like the brute force approach to getting something done except the force is sheer dollars and labor focus on one goal.
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