I'm not assuming any of these things. At no point do I say that it's not worth the expenditure. I'm just saying that there is an expenditure.
Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission
by cscurmudgeon on Saturday November 09, 2013 @08:59PM
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there is an expenditure.
That is a trivially vacuous statement. Everything has an expenditure. It is the net benefit that counts. Even breathing takes energy.
I was responding to a guy who said that no wealth was destroyed, which is another way of saying that there was no expenditure.
Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission
by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:21PM
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I believe he was talking about net wealth.
Why do you assume Mars has zero wealth? Over the long term, this "loss" of wealth will result in helping humans (not just Indians) harness that wealth in Mars and other places.