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> If you look at what APOLLO has cost > inflation-adjusted for 2019, a whopping $288.1 billion When I was reading that, I was expecting a much higher number th

> If you look at what APOLLO has cost > inflation-adjusted for 2019, a whopping $288.1 billion When I was reading that, I was expecting a much higher number than the one I ended up reading. That's < the cash Apple has on hand, approximately as much revenue as they make a year. That's 1/2 of the annual U.S. military budget. It's 1/3 of a small portion of the 2008 bailout. === If you annualize that by the 10 years it was spent in, the only discretionary funding significantly less than that is Food and Agriculture.

neuronic 7y ago
This is not the most money a nation has ever spent on any singular object. I am not saying that. I also firmly believe that it was worth it! But the difficulty is in a) allocating this money b) convincing the public that removing this money from, say education, is a good strategy A good chunk of people seriously require heat warnings on their hot coffee to realize that their coffee is hot. I don't hold high hopes in making a voting majority of people understand long-term global benefits.