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> We went to the moon and back on this kind of severe limitations Adjusting for inflation, NASA spent $283 billion going to the moon[0]. I can't be bothered to
by not_kurt_godel 7y ago
> We went to the moon and back on this kind of severe limitations
Adjusting for inflation, NASA spent $283 billion going to the moon[0]. I can't be bothered to find a breakdown of how much of that budget could be directly tied to writing code, but I suspect that the investment was a wee bit higher than a rando frontend dev slapping together some libraries in 2020.
[0] https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/become-an-expert/cost-of-apollo-program.html https://www.planetary.org/get-involved/be-a-space-advocate/b...