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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by csours on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @12:28AM (#8692048)
How much did Avatar cost to make? How much will it cost to go to Mars?
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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by jahnu on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @03:58AM (#8692589)
$237 million to make and advertise Avatar. [1]

The Space Review estimated in 2010 the cost of Apollo from 1959 to 1973 as $20.4 billion, or $109 billion in 2010 dollars, averaged over the six landings as $18 billion each. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_%282009_film%29 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Program_cost

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Re:NASA: We're sending humans to Mars by k_ on Wednesday December 03, 2014 @01:28AM (#8692176)
True. But how much will going to Mars bring back?
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