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VicenteOlisipo t1_jdjj906 wrote

Reply to comment by CurtisLeow in Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches by Zhukov-74

He's got a strong point though. Geo-return makes countries put funding forward. Without it, they won't (as much).

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sithelephant t1_jdkdx2t wrote

To an extent. If, for example, the funding drops to a half, and you get three times more efficient, ...

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VicenteOlisipo t1_jdkkm99 wrote

Ok, but that's theoretical math. In reality that effeciency actually needs even more money to be developed. Unless we just outsource it to the Americans.

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sithelephant t1_jdl2dkh wrote

Yes, but also no.

There is technological or process advancement savings for which this argumemnt might be made.

And then there is savings from not doing things in a knowingly financially inefficient but politically expedient manner.

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