News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Is SLS Worth the Cost? by thepasswordis on Monday August 29, 2022 @12:48PM (#32640412)
It goes to engineers and materials scientists? And welders and builders and truck drivers and everything else.

And what about if that money was spent on building homes? Those guys framing the houses aren’t as valuable as the guys running modeling software in an office? Do you think the truck drivers in Alabama are more valuable than truck drivers in California?

Put in the same input of labor, and either get 130,000 single family homes AND the economic benefit of all the work to build them, or get a few big rockets which are about 20 years behind their nearest competitor.

Re:Is SLS Worth the Cost? by 2OEH8eoCRo0 on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:44PM (#32641156)
> get a few big rockets which are about 20 years behind their nearest competitor.

What existing competitors are built to bring humans to the Moon?