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This is so true ... the amount of pork that's got to be bought just to get the (too small) NASA budget approved is horrendous. I'd argue that the "useful" fund
by smoyer 5y ago
This is so true ... the amount of pork that's got to be bought just to get the (too small) NASA budget approved is horrendous. I'd argue that the "useful" funding for space programs is a few percent of what's spent. Imagine if we let Musk turn all that pork into bacon?
- phkahler 5y agoThe strange thing is if you want to spread the money around to all the right districts, you could just as well do multiple low-cost projects. By letting single organizations do a whole project it should cost less. OTOH like someone said, it's harder to kill a project that's spread across so many areas. SpaceX can just provide cheap launch services and we can have more large projects to send up!