Well assuming they didn't copy everything to get there (I'd bet $100 they did), the innovation required to pull off such a feat pays off $1000 on the penny and, if they had actually innovated anything rather than copying the Soviets and us, would help give them a significant economic boost.
yes.
My family's smallest excavator weighed 77K lbs. Currently, it is a challeng
That might have been the case 40 years ago when major advances in dozens of areas were required to achieve spaceflight milestones.
You may not cut the costs, fortunately the wealth estimated up there exceeds that cost. I'd have to check the show notes, but offthe top of my head Science Friday hadsome sort of Jade Rabbit episode last week discussing Chinas aspirations.
Space for the US has averaged a 10 to 1 return on investment. Some guys on freakonomics podcast said if you wanted to pay off the debt or cut the deficit you would have to invest in things like space. Its a narrative I enjoy.
Factually, youll find the opposite.
Although you can ride on a 737-800 with the same tail number. "Nebula, three seven four two, Constellation."
It'll be very, very difficult to reduce that initial cost, as there's no such thing as a free launch.
It's absolutely still the case. Nasa has been for it's entire existance the greatest economic powerhouse this country has ever seen.
Please explain.
Money pits with questionable benefits also include many defense projects and the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Agreed. We have no shortage of money pits.
I'd still rather give a bunch of geeks the money than the banksters or the "killing people" side of Northrop, Lockheed, Boeing etc.
Except that the parent company of Cirrus was purchased by China Aviation Industry General Aircraft Co., Ltd. two years ago for over 200 million and they are the ones currently financing and pouring the cash into Cirrus for the development and manufacturing of new planes. And Apple? Most of their products are assembled in China. Robinson laid off over 500 workers a couple of years ago and only produced like 16% of the choppers that it had in previous years. Remember what they went through back in the 90's with the FAA and safety concerns and what they had to pay out in liability? To this date, they have been unable to secure any military contracts. The last two years their sales have been growing again and I do wish them well, though and hopefully their market will expand. Google just opened two data centers in Taiwan and Singapore. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are following suit. And where are the HP Google Chromebooks made? In China. And where are the Acer Google Chromebooks made? China. To add more irony, Baidu- a huge Chinese search entity just unveiled it's own version of Chromecast and it's cheaper than the Google version. They are going to be pairing them with their smart tvs also.
