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sfblah on Dec 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Starship / Super Heavy

I don’t think you’re right about many others having unlimited resources. This situation is a novelty in the post-cold-war era. Admittedly in the Cold War military projects probably did have unlimited resources.

aaronblohowiak on Dec 27, 2020 [–]

Do you think sls development is less than what spacex is spending on starship?

reasonabl_human on Dec 28, 2020 | [–]

This made me chuckle. SLS is a bloated joke, survives due to political favoritism for job generation. SpaceX does everything at a radical discount by comparison.

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