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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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
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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)
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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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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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"Curiosity, Insight, Opportunity and Spirit None of these can exist without the most fundamental virtue of perseverance The understanding that whatever happens, the human race will continue moving forward, no matter what setbacks we face"
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i find these sorts of prize winning essays the most fascinating little time capsules
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a sort of distillation of the nationalist zeitgeist that is hard to capture in drier language like there's one in an out of the way place at mount rushmore that expresses the madness of manifest destiny more clearly then about anything i've ever read
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"Hey Senior Airman Pilbeam, how's it going You still reaching up from the depths of despair and persevering"
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