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The US went to the moon and back with relying on hand calculations, it has to be put in the perspective, innit?
by DrNuke 9y ago
The US went to the moon and back with relying on hand calculations, it has to be put in the perspective, innit?
- vacri 9y agoHand calculations and 4% of GDP :)
- DrNuke 9y agoStill hand calculations, a brain and two hands are not gdp (or cpu)-dependent. Engineering works are. My point is Apple is cretinising the world and its brightest minds, neither a novel nor a popular point, I know, but more and more poignant.
- tgb 9y agoI think you might be confusing GDP with something else. Apollo spending peaked in 1966 at just shy of $3 billion [1] while US GDP was 815 billion [2] for about 0.3% percent of the GDP. On the other hand, [3] shows US federal outlays at $17.2 billion, so Apollo would have been 17% of the total budget. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program#Costs [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=gdp+of+us https://www.google.com/search?q=gdp+of+us [3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals
- vacri 9y agoHrm, I read it stated that way somewhere, but looking at this link, it was more like 4% of the federal budget. Still an incredible outlay of money. https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-budgets-us-spending-space-travel https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/feb/01/nasa-b...