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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I guess if you mean the relevant thing isn't the amount of money spent (because the value of money is a highly cooked book) but the genuine underlying scarce resources (including human labor) - I mean measuring that is really hard but space is still a tiny chunk of that
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Like how much metal and manufacturing capacity and human ingenuity went into flooding the nation's car lots with PT cruisers during the disastrous fad in the mid-2000s
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Yeah, which is why even if the price tag itself is symbolic I'm much more annoyed by the amount of manpower and natural resources and fuel that gets dedicated to throwing a bunch of junk into the sky with no payoff and no return so that a nerdy guy can get his science boner
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Well yeah but again it's really a tiny drop in the bucket And it comes from an implicitly neoliberal mindset of putting publicly funded projects under special scrutiny while acting like we have no say in what private sector capitalists do with "their money"
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