Re: NASA rushes plan to send humans to moon, Mars, despite doubts ...

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 02/25/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:00:28 GMT

On 25 Feb 2005 04:34:02 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Will McLean"
<mclean1382@aol.com> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

>> >If nothing else, ISS has taught us valuable
>> >lessons on how to, and how not to, do a big,
>> >manned, cooperative international space project.
>>
>> If that is all we get, we could have learned it much faster, for much
>> less money, and the opportunity costs of how all that time and money
>> could have been invested to actually make some progress in space are
>> to weep for.
>>
>
>In practice, the opportunity cost is not what you would have done with
>the resources instead, but what Congress would have done with the
>resources instead.

Sure. I was talking about theory, not practice. Even had we built no
space station at all over that time period, I still think we'd be
better off. Absent that program, with its false promises, we might
have realized much sooner that we can't count on the government to do
it for us.

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