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Re:Loon’s final flight by jimhi on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:57PM (#25876792)
The parent comment's point is that the money spent on the space program was likely very highly weighted to the first years building that first rocket. So dividing by 10 because it was roughly a decade is probably underestimating the budget needed to get to the moon.
Re:Loon’s final flight by knorker on Saturday January 23, 2021 @03:16PM (#25885642)
Yes, but even pessimistically Google could send one rocket to the moon in 10 years with only 10% revenue.