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Yes my point is not that nasa is a bad thing - I want to increase spending at nasa. But I don't want it to be wasted on basically congressional district earmar
by Latteland 8y ago
Yes my point is not that nasa is a bad thing - I want to increase spending at nasa. But I don't want it to be wasted on basically congressional district earmarks. There's always been some of that going on, unfortunately, but the SLS is a major drain on other things at Nasa. They can't afford to waste money on this. SLS may never fly, it's at least a big rocket looking for a use case.
- ethbro 8y agoThe problem seems inherent in large engineering projects (> 2 terms worth of work) and the ephemeral nature of politicians. I feel like there's probably a "law" using a constant that states "As a project's ETA approaches T, the actual delivery date approaches infinity." Where T is ~10 years.