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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by fallingknife on Saturday February 24, 2024 @12:44PM (#39493465)
And that only works for problems that are cheap to solve. Most aren't.
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Re:Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they ar... by rented_mule on Saturday February 24, 2024 @01:42PM (#39494005)
You are replying to a post that references exceptionally expensive efforts. The inflation adjusted cost of the Apollo Program was hundreds of billions of dollars[1]. By what measure is that cheap? Maybe I'm missing intended sarcasm?

[1] https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-apollo

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