NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s colossal

Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by manwe150 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:00AM (#36459246)

$10 billion is roughly $6 per homeless person per year in California. How much are you expecting this one free cup of coffee per quarter to accomplish?

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by boeingUH60 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:42AM (#36459617)

Wow, there are 1.7 billion homeless people in California?!

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by sdenton4 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:06AM (#36459308)

Are you saying that there are 42 million homeless people in California?

(10B / $6 / 4 quarters / 10 years)

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by manwe150 on Saturday June 24, 2023 @06:40PM (#36463285)

Oops, yeah, that was a calculator fail. It should have been about $6k/year, but I dropped a factor of 1k. Which is still not much, but a bit more sensible.

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Re:NASA’s Mars Sample Return has a new price tag–and it’s co... by Filligree on Saturday June 24, 2023 @11:03AM (#36459286)

They have a billion homeless people?

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