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- From: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 22:46:24 -0500
- Organization: The Dorsai Grey Captains
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- References: <1993Jan4.180947.20495@iti.org> <72958@cup.portal.com> <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org>
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- In article <1993Jan6.025846.15440@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:
- >Facilities costs can be paid with the interest on the savings.
-
- It's statements like this that make me wince when I read your posts.
-
- You can't get interest on money just because you don't spend it; if NASA
- magically saves a billion dollars a year because of your schemes, the money
- *doesn't* get stuck in a bank somewhere. In addition, you've already budgeted
- the money elsewhere, so you aren't getting any absolute savings anyway.
-
- Besides, even if we do save all the money you claim, I don't see it being a
- fair trade for scrapping chunks of the U.S. aerospace industry in favor of
- the Russian industry. The end result will be that we'll be buying from others
- forever, because it will be the Russians developing the next generation of
- hardware, and not us. It's just not worth it.
- --
- Matthew DeLuca
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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