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
-
Show this thread
-
Like, sorry, but this does not make my heart sing, especially when I think about the price tag, especially when I think about the labor that went into putting something into space we'll never get back I pretty much already guessed that Venus looked exactly like thispic.twitter.com/jKbnkx2UFi
9 replies 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Nymphomachy
I mean yeah but it's not that big a deal Like to put it in perspective the total cost of the Perseverance rover over the planned 11-year mission ($2.75 billion) is still significantly less than the check Disney wrote George Lucas to buy Star Wars ($4 billion)
3 replies 0 retweets 27 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
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
2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
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
1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
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*
1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Tell the Air Force Chief of Staff he's got a budget freeze this year because of the F-35 debacle so they have to hire somewhat fewer neurotic closeted trans girls to dick around for years getting traumatized and accomplishing fuck-all for the country
1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes -
(I always worry I'm gonna go too far one day with one of these)
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.