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Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013) by mikeash on Sunday December 09, 2018 @10:14AM (#18641172)
A handful of prototype atomic bombs isn’t enough to beat the Soviet Union in a war, but one rocket to the moon is enough to beat them in space.
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Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013) by moon_shots on Sunday December 09, 2018 @05:13PM (#18643631) 

  As long as it worked, who cares?
That statement is a declaration of assent that you find the outcome acceptable.

It doesn’t examine the manner of resource usage, and the returned benefits for each cost.

In one case, they built a car and a garage to fix many cars in.

In the other case, they built a car off some value and drove it off a cliff. For the price, could we not have also obtained a matching garage?

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Re:The price of the Manhattan Project (2013) by mikeash on Sunday December 09, 2018 @05:24PM (#18643681)
Why are you “quoting” something I didn’t write and then claiming it means I find the outcome acceptable?
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