Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars
by venomsnake on Tuesday December 02, 2014 @05:47PM
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If the only thing NASA had done were the two voyagers - for a trillion dollars it would still have been on the cheap.
The trove of scientific data they have gathered over the years is insane. And for the 60 years it exists, a trillion dollars is not much.
> One has to earn the profits it spends on fancy R&D
Or borrow the money, or use wall street magic, or whatever. Also one of the recurrent critics of the current system is that corporations are slaves to the quarterly reports.
The problem with NASA in recent years is not that they spend a lot of money, but that they don't dream big enough.
The trove of scientific data they have gathered over the years is insane. And for the 60 years it exists, a trillion dollars is not much.
> One has to earn the profits it spends on fancy R&D
Or borrow the money, or use wall street magic, or whatever. Also one of the recurrent critics of the current system is that corporations are slaves to the quarterly reports.
The problem with NASA in recent years is not that they spend a lot of money, but that they don't dream big enough.