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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by chrisseaton on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:52PM (#16803438)
> The United States spent $20 billion for air conditioning during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

Do you think this is some kind of luxury? Have you got any idea how hot it gets in an operations room tent in Afghanistan? And some of those tents are hospitals.

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Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins by melling on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:56PM (#16804689)
I was going to simply say that we spent $1 trillion on the Iraq War (another trillion in Afghanistan).

I was only trying to show how little the research costs in the big scheme of things.

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