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>>but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon. True, but virtually nobo
by felipemnoa 4y ago
>>but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon.
True, but virtually nobody would be motivated by just directly investing on the tech instead of an exciting fighter jet.
- ISL 4y agoI don't know if you've ever met any ... aircraft metallurgists, for example, but holy poops are they motivated by doing anything awesome with advanced alloys.
- felipemnoa 4y agoYeah, but you need to motivate the people that will be footing the bill and also the ones that approve the budget. The tax payers, the legislators... The regular person will not care about technical stuff like that, but they will care about a shiny new fighting yet.
- WalterBright 4y agoI'm an engineer, and I'm motivated by the end product, not the just inventing a machine.