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All things considered (this being the military, government, and science all rolled into one), I sorry to say that I'm a little impressed by 92 million USD. I w
by burgerbrain 16y ago
All things considered (this being the military, government, and science all rolled into one), I sorry to say that I'm a little impressed by 92 million USD.
I would have expected it to run a few orders of magnitude higher.
- djcapelis 16y agoYes. My guess is we had some information on them and the money was spent to fill in the gaps.
- wlievens 16y agoIndeed. The blog post seems to assume no reverse-engineering occurred. That means they assume that reverse-engineering some highly complex thirty year old technology in a top-secret military context would somehow cost significantly less than that number.