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Which other useful things can they do? Spend their lives building advertising services or playing zero-sum games in financial markets?
by skummetmaelk 2y ago
Which other useful things can they do? Spend their lives building advertising services or playing zero-sum games in financial markets?
- panick21_ 2y agoThe whole time when SpaceX didn't exist and NASA invested money in nonsense they could have invented reusable rockets, LEO constellations, nuclear reactors the list goes on. I really don't have a clue what your issue is. There is literally no problem with not having enough ideas that are cool that NASA can work on.
- thmsths 2y agoBuilding rockets and probes for a reasonable price and in a reasonable amount of time. SLS was initially billed as "a simple project to reuse a bunch of parts from the Space Shuttle" and yet it's over a decade old, 20 billions in cost and has not launched even once. So we get no real innovation (as I said previously it's just reusing fairly old technologies), it's not cheap and it's not fast. As for keeping the specialists hot; surely there are better ways to do it. It feels like saying let's keep digging ditches and filling them back up to keep our ditch diggers in shape.