OT: First video from Mars

[JD08]

NASA's fiscal year 2020 budget was $22.629 billion (which is about the GDP of Iceland), so I'm not too sure we want them handling all government budgeting either, lol.

Medicare waste, fraud and abuse was 28.91 billion in 2019.

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

Medicare waste, fraud and abuse was 28.91 billion in 2019.

Fraudsters always be frauding. But government waste is everywhere, and most definitely at NASA...

In 1965 NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Tycam Engineering Manufacturing.
They paid $128.89 per pencil, or $4,382.50 in total.
Adjusted for inflation, that would be like spending about $1K per mechanical pencil today.

 

[cooks002]

Wow. Historic is an understatement.

 

[Canemang]

0-12

 

[GojiraCane]

 

[Ajcane8]

8 years, 10 billion dollars, 50 million miles all for 20 seconds of grainy footage that looks like it was taken from my grandmother’s back yard in Tucson. Color me unimpressed.

 

[Go Canes!!]

8 years, 10 billion dollars, 50 million miles all for 20 seconds of grainy footage that looks like it was taken from my grandmother’s back yard in Tucson. Color me unimpressed.

Guys do the same thing for a hot piece of *** on the regular for about the same amount of time.

At least this is another planet.

 

[puertorricane]

Fraudsters always be frauding. But government waste is everywhere, and most definitely at NASA...

In 1965 NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Tycam Engineering Manufacturing.
They paid $128.89 per pencil, or $4,382.50 in total.
Adjusted for inflation, that would be like spending about $1K per mechanical pencil today.

The military wastes more money than any other government agency.
Especially during war time when they have a blank check.

 

[Ajcane8]

Guys do the same thing for a hot piece of *** on the regular for about the same amount of time.

At least this is another planet.

Eh. Wake me up when they start terraforming.

 

[ben]

 

[JD08]

8 years, 10 billion dollars, 50 million miles all for 20 seconds of grainy footage that looks like it was taken from my grandmother’s back yard in Tucson. Color me unimpressed.

2.7 billion, 128 million miles.

 

[TriStarCane]

Mars aint played no one Pawwwwwwl

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Medicare waste, fraud and abuse was 28.91 billion in 2019.

Thank God there is no waste, fraud, and abuse in corporations.

 

[JD08]

Thank God there is no waste, fraud, and abuse in corporations.

But I have a choice whether to buy a corporation's products and subsidize that. I have no choice but to pay for government waste through higher taxes.

 

[Go Canes!!]

But I have a choice whether to buy a corporation's products and subsidize that. I have no choice but to pay for government waste through higher taxes.

Still can’t believe this place took me for $25.

 

[Ajcane8]

2.7 billion, 128 million miles.

Was just a round guess based on Mars’ distance from earth, but I just looked it up and we were both wrong. Perseverance travelled over 292 million miles. So that means... something.

 

[DTP]

M A R S! Mars *******!!!!

 

[JD08]

Was just a round guess based on Mars’ distance from earth, but I just looked it up and we were both wrong. Perseverance travelled over 292 million miles. So that means... something.

Mostly because everything is orbiting the sun. Mars is just a tad under 128 million miles away though.

 

[DTP]

But I have a choice whether to buy a corporation's products and subsidize that. I have no choice but to pay for government waste through higher taxes.

What about private corporations that get subsidized by tax dollars?

 

[Ajcane8]

Mostly because everything is orbiting the sun. Mars is just a tad under 128 million miles away though.

Exactly. Today, Mars is 128 million miles away. Last March it was 38 million