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Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission by mikeash on Saturday November 09, 2013 @04:39PM (#6703375)
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.
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Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission by cscurmudgeon on Saturday November 09, 2013 @08:59PM (#6704731)
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.

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Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission by mikeash on Saturday November 09, 2013 @09:04PM (#6704745)
I was responding to a guy who said that no wealth was destroyed, which is another way of saying that there was no expenditure.
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Re:Mythbusting India's Mars Mission by cscurmudgeon on Tuesday November 12, 2013 @03:21PM (#6720674)
I believe he was talking about net wealth.
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