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It is $720 million built on top of the shoulders of billions and billions of dollars of the failures and successes of missions that preceded it.
by eric_h 11y ago
It is $720 million built on top of the shoulders of billions and billions of dollars of the failures and successes of missions that preceded it.
- moron4hire 11y agoThat's not how accounting works. If it did, I'd personally be worth billions, too.
- ahuth 11y agoPretty sure he/she's not talking about accounting.
- eric_h 11y agoIndeed, my point was that arguing that the pluto mission cost "only" $720 million and thus comparing the value of the products of this mission as less than the acquisitions of Oculus at $2B and Mojang at $2.5B does a great disservice to this achievement.
- moron4hire 11y agoNo, that's not what I was doing. I wasn't saying price = value. I was specifically trying to say the opposite, that such an obviously valuable project had come at an incredibly cheap price, comparatively.
- eric_h 11y agoFair enough. Honestly I also think the comparison demonstrates how over valued those acquisitions were (in terms of what they bring to the human race).