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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by dylan604 on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:07PM (#25163098)
Congress, collectively, is not often referred to as "smart". If I'm a senator and a guy sitting in front of me makes that offer, I take him up on it and hold his feet to the fire. How do you explain that to your constituents? I was offered free, and I said no. Re-elect Me!!!

To be fair, the building of the actual carrier is just part of the price of a carrier. What's the cost to also fit that carrier out with all of the various aircraft required to make the carrier worth having? Didn't we see an example of this when the NSA donated Hubble equivalent satellites to NASA, but NASA had to politely say no since they had no budget to operate them?

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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by akiselev on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:36PM (#25163401)
> Didn't we see an example of this when the NSA donated Hubble equivalent satellites to NASA, but NASA had to politely say no since they had no budget to operate them?

It was the NRO not the NSA and NASA did accept the donation. They announced the mission schedule for one of the satellites in 2016 [1]

[1] https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/02/18/nasa-moves-forward-wit...

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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by smorephism on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:15PM (#25163175)
>What's the cost to also fit that carrier out with all of the various aircraft required to make the carrier worth having?

Right idea! The answer is "hardly anything, relative to crewing it for its useful lifetime", but you're barking up the correct tree.

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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by kevinpet on Friday November 20, 2020 @03:50PM (#25164788)
DOD budget is about $350K per employee. A typical E5 (sergeant or PO2 in the navy) makes $3K/mo, or 1/10 of that.
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Re:Study identifies reasons for soaring nuclear plant cost o... by jbay808 on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:23PM (#25163258)
You could always sell the bare-bones carrier to an ally, the way Russia sold their extra carrier to China.
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