> The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains

> The first Japanese Shinkansen train went over budget by 100%, but nobody remembers that anymore. Instead they talk about how wonderful the Shinkansen trains are. The next generation National Space Telescope went over budget by a factor of twenty and fell behind schedule. That's another data point on the loss of American prestige. I couldn't watch the documentary at the repeating use of the word incompetence. One recent commercial resupply vessel failed to open one of two solar panels and the Lisa probe failed to lock on of the two solar panels.