I guess that photos of the surface of other celestial bodies is cool or something but think of how many PlayStations you could buy with the money you saved if you just took a bunch of worms-eye-view photos of Antarctica and ran them through a neural net
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The cost of the Iraq War, which most historians define as taking place over only seven years (2003-10), is *hundreds of times* that $757.8 billion in direct DoD cash spent, $1.1 trillion if you count interest on the part funded by government bonds
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This is why NASA nerds are so salty, because yeah the government is dicking around to cater to their special interest for general patriotic reasons but we do that in all kinds of other ways - public parks, statues, grants for theatre and art and random other science stuff
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That's true But I could conceivably imagine the price of Star Wars being seriously deflated, like in terms of material considerations Star Wars is probably not $4 billion worth of content and making one man happy doesn't cause that much either Space costs are not so overblown
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...do you mean inflated?
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Shit, we as people in the world spent more money seeing Avengers: Endgame for 181 minutes than the 11 year mission of Perseverance
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