Re:NASA will pay $146M for each SLS rocket engine
by pfdietz on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @07:41AM
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It's not that it's bloated and inefficient, it's that the basic mechanisms driving its behavior are not aligned with its ostensible stated purpose.
A politician doesn't usually care about science. He cares about votes and influence. So when he gives money to NASA he is doing so to produce those, not to produce science. If science gets done it's almost accidental.
The reason politicians get away with this is that the public lets them. They accept that what NASA is doing is ok, even when it's not. Apologists like yourself are ultimately to blame.
A politician doesn't usually care about science. He cares about votes and influence. So when he gives money to NASA he is doing so to produce those, not to produce science. If science gets done it's almost accidental.
The reason politicians get away with this is that the public lets them. They accept that what NASA is doing is ok, even when it's not. Apologists like yourself are ultimately to blame.