Re: Mars rover sticker shock

On Feb 23, 11:35 am, Damien Valentine <valen...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 22, 11:32 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ouch! Two billion dollars. That's around four times as much as the two
MER rovers:http://tinyurl.com/3dhsnj

Pat

I don't keep track of NASA slogans and politics, but weren't they
crowing about a "faster, better, cheaper" mindset just a few years
ago? Since when is $1.8 billion (plus "It's going to go up some more.
We just don't know how much.") considered cheap? Or has NASA
abandoned that motto?

NASA's "motto" has always been to snooker and dumbfound the rest of us
village idiots, and then some. It's called job security, with
lifetime extended benefits.
.. - Brad Guth
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