So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death::So what are we to make of this? Is Odysseus a success or a failure?

  • 5C5C5CEnglish
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    9 months ago

    The overwhelming cost in these projects is always engineering salaries. These companies are making the calculation that they can throw shit (rockets) at the wall (into space) carelessly to save money by wasting more material to avoid paying the salaries of people that could think through the design more carefully and come up with something that will have a reasonable probability of working the first time.

    And you can attack that issue by a combination of penalising companies that create debris and rewarding those that remove it under a capitalist economy

    Add this to the insurmountable pile of things we should theoretically regulate but never will because of regulatory capture.

    • throwwyacc@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Do you have any data to back that up? It would be quite interesting

      I don’t think regulation is impossible to achieve, look at the EU. And what I am fairly sure of is you have better odds of passing regulation than replacing capitalism entirely