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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IndrajithGamage" data-source="post: 30659344" data-attributes="member: 581741"> Here's what went wrong, a small issue called cost vs benefits.We have sent a small helicopter to fly on mars, and a massive 10 billion dollar telescope that has a gold sail bigger than a tennis court yet thinner and fragile than toilet paper, staying more than 1 million km away in a place where Sun's and Earth's gravity cancels each other out, adjusting the orbit by farting out xenon. There's retro reflectors on the surface of the moon that anyone can point a laser beam at and get the reflection registered on a collector. And no, Neil Armstrong didn't leave those retro reflectors, another set of astronauts who went on a later date did.You're right something has gone wrong, and that's the cost vs benefits. There's no real benefit for us to JUST go to moon and come back. Also, when the Apollo program was canceled, the whole infrastructure to go to moon was dismantled with it. Think of it as you going bullock cart racing. You can't get up tomorrow and decide to do that. There's no bullock carts to buy on the market. You have to build the cart, breed and train the bull/ox, and you need to get into shape to handle the race as well. If you did all that when you were young and retired, gave away your cart and ox, you can't Just start tomorrow. You have to build all. You don't keep trained bulls, bullock carts and fitness at a massive recurring cost for no reason. Now comes the biggest reason. Say you want to race bullock carts and are prepared to put in the money and effort once again, you have to ask, why? What do you get in return? Finally sticking it to those Earth is flat idiots? (i.e those who laugh saying you can't race bullock carts, and your bullock cart racing career photos were all AI edits) What's the point bro?Also understand, for even more cost reasons, there's almost no way you can make only one bullock cart and one bull. Apollo program was designed with a specific number of total flights in mind. Similarly, you have to definitely commit yourself to keep building like 12 bullock carts, breeding and training 12 bulls, and racing them each month.Now do you understand the problem? Of course racing bullock carts is nothing, disregarding the small fact that you need to redevelop everything again just to prove a point.I hope i finally enlightened you. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing    :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" /> There's so many things we used to do in the old days we can't do now. There's no Concorde for civilians to fly at Mach 2, and even though we built Empire State building in less than 2 years, for safety reasons a similar building now easily takes at least 5, and usually decades.Suddas got on sail ships, traveled around, came and built Thousand km or so of railway tracks on a remote Island called Ceylon before even the diesel engine was invented. Now they can't get even a few kilometers of new train track built in their own country. Cost is a darn thing, I know, but that's the reality.</blockquote>

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