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Originally Posted by Crowbob

Did I read it right that this thing cost $898,000,000.00?

I’m having trouble reconciling a cost/benefit calculation here.

Do we really need to know about marsquakes? That’s allota moolah.

Go look at the federal budget and report back. You can find exponentially more wasteful examples of government spending. As for value, is there not value in understanding the world around us, and what is thought to be the most imhabitable planet in our solar system? Or should we carry on thinking the Earth is flat? There is inherent value in knowledge, sadly it often can’t be quantified, or the value is only fully understood years later.