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Re: $35 billion Mars vs. $68 billion California rail
Author: Juan Million More
Date: 07-17-2017 - 11:52
Q Wrote:
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> > Why would space exploration be cheaper than old
> rail tech on earth?
>
>
> That question assumes facts not in evidence.
>
> That $35 billion figure to go to Mars does not
> even include most of the tasks needed to get
> there. But even if it did, it is still just a
> spitball number put out there by the project's
> proponents - no actual evidence presented!
>
> Same thing with the high speed rail - except that
> the $68 billion number has already long been
> proven to be Bullsh!t. Even so, anybody with any
> brains already knew it from the getgo anyway - no
> evidence there either!
>
> It's not that Cal- Rail couldn't have been built
> for that, or even for less; but that given all
> the BS politics in California, it never would get
> built at all - at any price; also that what few
> fragments did get built, would be useless segments
> from no-where to He!!-N-gone.
>
>
> Oh well - it's only money. And it does grow on
> trees - just ask any California politician!
> Too bad the tree species Californicus Monetarus
> has been put of the endangered species list
> because of over harvesting.
Well just bring in more "trees" from places like Mexico or China.
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> > Why would space exploration be cheaper than old
> rail tech on earth?
>
>
> That question assumes facts not in evidence.
>
> That $35 billion figure to go to Mars does not
> even include most of the tasks needed to get
> there. But even if it did, it is still just a
> spitball number put out there by the project's
> proponents - no actual evidence presented!
>
> Same thing with the high speed rail - except that
> the $68 billion number has already long been
> proven to be Bullsh!t. Even so, anybody with any
> brains already knew it from the getgo anyway - no
> evidence there either!
>
> It's not that Cal- Rail couldn't have been built
> for that, or even for less; but that given all
> the BS politics in California, it never would get
> built at all - at any price; also that what few
> fragments did get built, would be useless segments
> from no-where to He!!-N-gone.
>
>
> Oh well - it's only money. And it does grow on
> trees - just ask any California politician!
> Too bad the tree species Californicus Monetarus
> has been put of the endangered species list
> because of over harvesting.
Well just bring in more "trees" from places like Mexico or China.
