Skiluros@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWeapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988arstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down13
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minus-squareAndy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days ago$41M per missile? And 300 of them? Sheeet. That’s over ten billion dollars? Am I mathing right? That’s a lotta dough.
minus-squareSkiluros@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 day agoThat’s not out of this world for the type of tech that is being discussed, especially considering costs in the US are very high.
minus-squareAndy@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoIt’s like half of NASA’s entire budget. From a risk mitigation perspective, this is a case of fighting the last war. We know the war that is coming: it’s climate collapse. We don’t need faster rockets, we need high speed rail.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·1 day ago That’s not out of this world for the type of tech genocidal empire
$41M per missile? And 300 of them?
Sheeet. That’s over ten billion dollars?
Am I mathing right? That’s a lotta dough.
That’s not out of this world for the type of tech that is being discussed, especially considering costs in the US are very high.
It’s like half of NASA’s entire budget.
From a risk mitigation perspective, this is a case of fighting the last war. We know the war that is coming: it’s climate collapse. We don’t need faster rockets, we need high speed rail.