(August 28, 2022 at 8:20 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote:(August 28, 2022 at 7:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I see that Artemis 1 is due to launch tomorrow. The cost of this flight, and three subsequent flights will be $4.1 billion each, with a total project cost of $93 billion by 2025.
How many hungry people could you feed for $93 billion? How many homeless could you house? How many schools and hospitals could you build? How much medical research could be funded? How many climate change projects?
Manned spaceflight is the boondoggliest of all boondoggles.
Boru
On the other hand, 98% of the money spent is still here on Earth, wages to the engineers and technicians involved, they can spend their money on good causes if they want to
Those engineers could be doing useful space exploration work at 1/10 the cost (freeing up taxpayer money for those ‘good causes’), as opposed to investing their skills to do something you’ve already done.
Boru
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