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Originally Posted by sammyg2 View Post
the Manhattan project was a total bargain, especially when compared to what we spend on NASA every year.

Maybe we've become accustomed to seeing outrageous spending for so long that we've lost sight of what $21 Billion dollars really means.
If they had to be as safety conscious as NASA, if they had to triple redundant every power supply and switch and valve, and if they had to outsource to as many unscrupulous aerospace vendors as NASA does, it would have cost much much more...apples to oranges.
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