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Hand calculations and 4% of GDP :)
by vacri 9y ago
Hand 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...