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And they did most of it decades ago when the public supported grand endeavours. Now risk aversion is very high and budgets are very limited.
by rapsey 3y ago
And they did most of it decades ago when the public supported grand endeavours. Now risk aversion is very high and budgets are very limited.
- komali2 3y agoSo what? Governments are clearly capable of achieving these things, they've done it before. Private industry, remains to be seen. Worth nothing that it has to be profitable for it to work for private industry - possibly not what we actually want for space exploration. Would private industry have kept the voyager probes going this long?
- rapsey 3y agoI am speaking about willingness to take big risks not ability. You are arguing with me while talking about completely different things.
- soperj 3y agoApollo wasn't a risk?
- rocqua 3y agoThere are two parts to profitability. Revenue and costs. I don't want space exploration for unlocking massive new revenues, but reduced costs would be amazing. Not just for opportunities that get unlocked, but also for freeing up resources for other things.
- panick21_ 3y agoSimply not accurate. NASA budget today is actually about the same as the avg during Apollo. The problem is how the money is spent. And the 'risk aversion' isn't really the problem either.