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10. NASA is worth 10 times what we pay for it, if not more.

Fri Feb 11, 2022, 02:46 PM

Feb 2022

Imagine if Bezos or Musk had fronted the cash for this thing. Every image would have a copyright claim attached to it..scientists would have to highest bid for time, and we would never see a single pixel.

The fact that this thing was designed to park ITSELF in a stable lagrange orbit a million miles from here, blows my fucking mind.

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