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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
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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Yeah, that whole plutonium and uranium thing doesn't really require much safety stuff.
Especially when you mix it with enough high explosives to fuse atoms together.
And developing the first nuclear reactors … child's play.
But hey, NASA is really efficient! They pay real companies to make something for them ONCE IN A WHILE
And it's all those real companies that are to blame.
The international space station cost around $150,000,000,000 and we have to pay the Russians to fly us up there.