re: #119 RogueOne

This would be a nice program to have if we could afford it and if NASA could get it right but we can’t and they haven’t. There isn’t a company around that would put up with a program being 8 years past it’s due date and 200% over its budget.

Of course there are. That goes on in the real world all the time, in R&D, in programming projects, etc. Why do you need to assert crap that’s not true? Shit, there are ads all over town for Duke Nukem Forever, a game that’s more than a decade late and has had several companies collapse under it.

An estimate of costs can be wildly off without it meaning that the money spent isn’t worthwhile.

We have programs that people depend on, which are going broke, and people want to throw good money after bad on a meaning of life science project? That doesn’t make any sense.

Because you don’t understand the project, I guess, and how basic science supports technology in general. It’s not about the meaning of life. It’s about unlocking the most basic physics behind the interactions of matter— the kind of thing that leads, after much hard work, to amazing technological inventions, especially in the area of energy.

This is exactly the sort of basic science research that led us to our understanding of atomic theory, and our ability to manipulate radioactive material.