Getting to mars for only one fillion billion dollars!
Whispers in the echo chamber: ^Why the media says the space plan costs a trillion dollars.* By The Space Review is a lengthy, but very interesting look at erroneous figures and how they got there in the first place.
A gold-plated and unrealistic cost estimate from 1989 was accepted at face value nearly 15 years later, adjusted for inflation, then rounded up by nearly 60% by a reporter. Others then inflated it even more. And for weeks nobody in the media bothered to question it.
Via: Eric Meyer
Xian 10:30 PM, 03.23.04 - p-link
Comments: Getting to mars for only one fillion billion dollars!
A report from Petroleum News -link says, “Briggs said NASA has been working with Halliburton, Shell, Baker-Hughes and the Los Alamos National Laboratory to identify drilling technologies that might work on Mars.”
So can somebuddy tell me what a oilman like G. Dubious Bush would wanna hook up with Halliburton an’ Shell and spend taxpayer dinero ta send oil rigs to Mars for? Anybuddy? If ya think they’re really gonna dig fer groundwater ya probably believe in WMD’s an’ the Easter Bunny. Like a gangly galoot I know said—“Ya mean there were dinosaurs on Mars?”
And if that ain’t bad enough, yer good buddy Doowayne is workin’ off the idea that NASA is in its “faster, cheaper, better” phase. “Faster, cheaper, better” is what got us a Challenger disaster. “Faster, cheaper, better” is why we hadta go fix the lens on the Hubble. The world don’t need a corner-cutting mars mission ta blow up in our faces. And if Doowayne—who claims to be a “Washington, DC based space policy analyst” (NASA’s in Florida. Who does he work for? WASA? DCASA?) then why can’t he give us a cost fer this program himself? Maybe he’s too busy projecting the new cost overrun estimates fer the swelling Medicare prescription drug benefit.
The Gryffin - 12:04AM Thursday, 03.25.04
umm all I have to say is… yes.
LOL
Daniel - 02:02AM Thursday, 03.25.04
Damn! The bastards killed the link on their site. No matter. They neglected to eradacate the Google cache. Now I will expose their evil, martian oil-drilling plan! Again!
The Gryffin - 10:05PM Thursday, 03.25.04
My best analogy is to that of a volcano. The lower layers are fairly stable, although if someone comes up with a great innovation you might get another path toward profit (as in the illustration). It’s the gems that emerge from the surface, and the lava bubbling from underneath itself, that require energy (money) to produce and maintain.
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