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2600 bro wrote:
You don’t seem to be able answer questions but it’s ok. I’m still enjoying this.
Why did the Golden Gate Bridge cost $500M in current dollars but the new span of Bay Bridge bridge cost $8B in current dollars even though it was built 80 years later and only 25% longer than the GGB?
And wait the Golden Gate Bridge only took 4 years and the new Bay Bridge took 11 years??
We must have forgot how to build bridges? Or did we never know?
The scope of the new projects is much larger, the requirements are much more complex, so things requires A LOT more money and time these days.
You haven’t uncovered some fatal evidence. You’ve re-discovered a feature (bug) of the modern American economy. Nice work!
Can you be sure that the Golden Gate Bridge is real? Do you have any actual proof of this?
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Kolsiv wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
A mega project launch system designed to get many humans to Mars? It’s significantly larger in scope than Apollo.
But also… it’s American bro, it sucks, infrastructure costs are insane right now:
That’s damn specific. “It just does.”
It’s sad but true.
google “why does American infrastructure cost so much”Youll find like 900 think pieces with no clear answer.
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Timothy Foyle wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
You don’t seem to be able answer questions but it’s ok. I’m still enjoying this.
Why did the Golden Gate Bridge cost $500M in current dollars but the new span of Bay Bridge bridge cost $8B in current dollars even though it was built 80 years later and only 25% longer than the GGB?
And wait the Golden Gate Bridge only took 4 years and the new Bay Bridge took 11 years??
We must have forgot how to build bridges? Or did we never know?
The scope of the new projects is much larger, the requirements are much more complex, so things requires A LOT more money and time these days.
You haven’t uncovered some fatal evidence. You’ve re-discovered a feature (bug) of the modern American economy. Nice work!
Can you be sure that the Golden Gate Bridge is real? Do you have any actual proof of this?
And why hasn’t American built another Golden Gate Bridge????
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2600 bro wrote:
Kolsiv wrote:
Golden Gate Bridge, Empire State Building, mapping the ocean floor…you guys sure know how to go on a tangent.
Glad to know you’re listening.
The fewer direct critiques you have and the more dismissive jokes… the smugger I become 😎I’d have more critiques if you ever put forth any information. Right now I’m just entertained by you barely keeping your head above water in this discussion.
Keep it up though. You’re doing great! Really. 👍
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2600 bro wrote:
Kolsiv wrote:
That’s damn specific. “It just does.”
It’s sad but true.
google “why does American infrastructure cost so much”Youll find like 900 think pieces with no clear answer.
It’s depressing :(Plenty of other countries can go to the moon? Why do you guys keep saying NASA and America? What about Japan? Russia? Canada? None of them can do what America did in 1969 either? Peculiar.
Those darned American costs. :(
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2600 bro wrote:
Timothy Foyle wrote:
Can you be sure that the Golden Gate Bridge is real? Do you have any actual proof of this?
And why hasn’t American built another Golden Gate Bridge????
We are building one. But we really care about the safety of motorists this time around so it’s taking us a little longer than last time.
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Kolsiv wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
Like to move the Artemis program at same speed of the Apollo program you’d have spend some multiple of the total Apollo program cost. Maybe 2X considering the much larger scope?
We can run this test if you can get $600B from Congress for it. Much better use of money than Afghanistan/Iraq so it should be easy. Right?What’s costing so much?
All the Apollo missions happened during the Viet Nam War. Our government spent billions over there plus funding NASA too. The money argument is a joke.
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Kolsiv wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
And why hasn’t American built another Golden Gate Bridge????
We are building one. But we really care about the safety of motorists this time around so it’s taking us a little longer than last time.
LOL this is one reason why the new bay bridge cost so much: Earthquake safety!
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Legit question wrote:
Kolsiv wrote:
What’s costing so much?
All the Apollo missions happened during the Viet Nam War. Our government spent billions over there plus funding NASA too. The money argument is a joke.
NASA had 5% of the US budget during the Apollo program. It now has < 0.5%
Afghanistan and Iraq were much more expensive than Vietnam sadly.
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Bad Wigins wrote:
Kolsiv wrote:
We are building one. But we really care about the safety of motorists this time around so it’s taking us a little longer than last time.
I seriously doubt that thing is made of real gold anyhow
That's true. I've heard that it is actually made of tin foil tinged with official Crayola Gold crayons.
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Is the moon flat like the Earth? Inquiring minds want to know.
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it is interesting ... wrote:
I am Sam wrote:
....for the astronauts passing through it about the same dose as a CT scan...you had any?
...and yet you morans believe in a God
That is the official explanation, Van Allen Radiation Belt is safe.
Explain then why, not one of 135 space shuttle missions dared to cross into Van Allen Radiation Belt?
Calling people moran is not an explanation why no one has passed through Van Allen Radiation Belt, late 1972 to today.
No...its the scientific explanation. Again, have you, or someone you know had CT scans, or probably even multiple CT scans. I have and I'm still waiting to distintegrate.
...and again, yet morans like those here believe in a God, which has no scientific, nor official , explanation.
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interesting take wrote:
Is the moon flat like the Earth? Inquiring minds want to know.
It has a “dark side” and a “light side” … a globe doesn’t have sides…
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2600 bro wrote:
Kolsiv wrote:
We are building one. But we really care about the safety of motorists this time around so it’s taking us a little longer than last time.
LOL this is one reason why the new bay bridge cost so much: Earthquake safety!
You’re getting it! I love teaching.That one went right over your head. 😂 I love mocking.
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2600 bro wrote:
Legit question wrote:
All the Apollo missions happened during the Viet Nam War. Our government spent billions over there plus funding NASA too. The money argument is a joke.
NASA had 5% of the US budget during the Apollo program. It now has < 0.5%
Afghanistan and Iraq were much more expensive than Vietnam sadly.
I love how the new excuse is that we don’t have the money to go to the moon. Didn’t you guys say getting the last 238,800+ miles is the easy part? We’ve got those first few miles down pat, right? We send up thousands of satellites, sending people back and forth from ISS like it’s Grand Central, sending cars into space, boldly putting Kirk where no man has gone before. We’ve got this down. But now it’s that we don’t have the money to buy stuff?
C’mon. It’s been 18 years on this project. And you predict it’ll be 12 more until we get to the moon. 30 years? We did this already right? Multiple times right? C’mon.
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Kolsiv wrote:
2600 bro wrote:
NASA had 5% of the US budget during the Apollo program. It now has < 0.5%
Afghanistan and Iraq were much more expensive than Vietnam sadly.
I love how the new excuse is that we don’t have the money to go to the moon. Didn’t you guys say getting the last 238,800+ miles is the easy part? We’ve got those first few miles down pat, right? We send up thousands of satellites, sending people back and forth from ISS like it’s Grand Central, sending cars into space, boldly putting Kirk where no man has gone before. We’ve got this down. But now it’s that we don’t have the money to buy stuff?
C’mon. It’s been 18 years on this project. And you predict it’ll be 12 more until we get to the moon. 30 years? We did this already right? Multiple times right? C’mon.
It's true that getting a man out of the earth's atmosphere is the hard part. We have it "down pat", but it doesn't come cheap.
National priorities change. The moon is not the only destination in space. Since the Apollo programs, NASA started working on Skylab and the Shuttle, not to mention other interplanetary missions like sending surveyor satellites to Venus and Mars. Regarding budget cuts, NASA had foreseen 19 Apollo missions, but already by 1970, budget cuts had forced the elimination of the last two missions.
Here is what was written contemporaneously about Apollo and NASA budget cuts and what's next in "Britannica book of the year 1970"
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I've driven on the Golden Gate Bridge but i haven't driven the Lunar Rover on the moon.
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If the moon landing was faked, why did we fake it six times in a row and then stop? Why not just keep doing it?
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