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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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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Their thing is really visible and splashy and exciting so it also attracts all the haters But you could make up the whole cost of something like Perseverance by just putting your foot down on defense procurement a *little*
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it is possible that penelope's ire is driven not by the material cost of perseverance, but rather by the being-towards-death it expresses a naive optimism, a vision of forever progress, which she takes to be not merely false but frankly abhorrent, given the state of things
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It is true that the little essay the kid wrote that won him the rover naming contest about "perseverance" would be very offensive to Penelope's worldview
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