Re: Economics of Spaceflight


"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How is it my house got built, when it required so many separate
missions to deliver the materials for it?

And why is it generally a pre-fab modular house delivered in 1-3 pieces
would have been cheaper?

Because they are *cheap* in terms of quality and cost.

When I got out of college, I bought one of these things new. They didn't
even use 2x4's for the interior walls. The drywall was pre-laminated with
wallpaper and they covered up the gaps between the drywall sheets with thin
strips of wood also pre-laminated with wallpaper. The roof was a noisy tin
roof. The siding was flimsy metal siding. The door knobs were plastic
instead of metal. The cabinents were so cheap I wouldn't even call them
cabinents (they had no backs, so the back of your cabinent was simply the
wall behind the cabinents. The thing wasn't even wired for phone, cable, or
anything besides AC and natural gas.

I could go on for days about how cheap that piece of crap was. They don't
even hold their value. They depriciate like cars, even when kept in
immaculate condition by non-smokers (like my wife and I). From what I
remember, when we sold it about 5 years later, we got about half of what we
paid for the thing when it was new. And this was from a very well kept home
in one of the "more desirable" mobile home parks. :-P

This analogy has been overdone and is not always true.

I think it holds true since mobile/modular homes simply aren't valued as
highly as a "stick built" home, especially when you're talking about used
homes.

There are examples where pre built modules are cheaper and more desirable
than something built on site, but those tend to be the exceptions to the
rule.

Jeff
--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety"
- B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)


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