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That's within the budget of many Silicon Valley duders. I would suspect that figure belies some costs they aren't taking into account.
by helveticaman 18y ago
That's within the budget of many Silicon Valley duders. I would suspect that figure belies some costs they aren't taking into account.
- chollida1 18y ago> Silicon Valley duders What is a "duder"? Is that equivalent to "Silicon Valley dudes"?
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoA "duder" would be a person that made dudes.
- helveticaman 18y agoReally? From urbandictionary: "Duder is a word of many possibilites. It can be used as a replacement for dude. It can also be used to mean someone is more dude-like than someone else (as in dude, duder, dudest.) It has also been known to be used to describe objects for which the name has been temporarily forgotten, or otherwise unknown to the user of the word. Still yet another usage is a verb which means the act of being a dude or doing dudely things."
- jyothi 18y agoI would believe the opposite. It is India, labor and infra costs would be much lower. In fact the actual spend would be lesser than $78M considering departments always over bill on construction/development costs.
- stcredzero 18y agoSpace launch is just not as hard as we've been led to believe by those sucking at the government teat. In 1980, a 2nd world country was getting ready to assemble a launch system that would've attained launch costs as low as $600 per kg. (This would've been limited to hardened or bulk cargoes due to high G forces, but that's still awesome and damn useful!) The price of this system was only $25 million (1980.) That's a game changing technology and it's still within the reach of a group of "Silicon Valley duders." http://www.astronautix.com/country/iraq.htm http://www.astronautix.com/country/iraq.htm
- dmix 18y agoYour missing one variable: profit. No rich silicon valley duder is going to spend $25 million unless hes gets a return.
- helveticaman 18y agoWould status count as a kind of profit?