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There are no dollars in the laws of physics. It's connected ultimately to productivity of all the activities involved, and there's no obvious upper bound to pr
by pfdietz 2y ago
There are no dollars in the laws of physics. It's connected ultimately to productivity of all the activities involved, and there's no obvious upper bound to productivity.
- WalterBright 2y agoThere's the rocket equation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
- pfdietz 2y agoWhich doesn't have dollars anywhere in it.
- WalterBright 2y agoThe point of the rocket equation is there are hard physical limits on what rockets can do, and dollars won't change it.
- pfdietz 2y agoThat's nice. It doesn't imply a lower bound for costs, just of ratios of costs.