Comment by Dylan16807

5 days ago

If we had funded that as much as we're currently funding AI I think it would have been a plausible goal. Keep in mind we cut more than half of NASA's budget after we first landed.

I disagree.

  • The gap between spending multiple days somewhere and spending months somewhere isn't that big.

    It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.

    • >It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.

      Yeah that's my entire point, technological process doesn't have a constant rate of acceleration. Some advances are quickly made one after another and others lag and take a very long time.

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