u/Watermelonmilkman

For pro-Trump trolls that love to attack CAHSR for its cost. The Iran war has already at MINIMUM cost $29 billion, which is almost the entire cost of the IOS. Funding problems for CAHSR are purely political, not a lack of funds.
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For pro-Trump trolls that love to attack CAHSR for its cost. The Iran war has already at MINIMUM cost $29 billion, which is almost the entire cost of the IOS. Funding problems for CAHSR are purely political, not a lack of funds.

EDIT: The new York times article was a live updates page, which I didn't realize, so here is a different article showing the cost.

This isn't even considering how much the huge increase in inflation and gas price has hurt the wallets of Americans. Americans are spending $300 million more on gas PER DAY. That article was from 57 days ago, so since then it's cost people about $17 billion (though gas is even more expensive now than it was then). Imagine if that money went to taxes to maintain infrastructure or to build public rail.

I'm not saying that CAHSR is a perfect project, far from it. It drastically underestimated the cost of building, and has been bogged down. But there is a big difference between fair criticism (talking about funding shortfalls, unrealistic estimates, etc) vs just spamming "guys it's so expensive, guys it's never going to happen, guys the cost is unbelievable". Especially when many people who are in every comment section saying how expensive the $15 billion spent so far has been can be found to be posting continuously about how great Trump is as president. Infrastructure is expensive! So is war. To me, it seems like high spending is the core issue of only one of those.

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u/Watermelonmilkman — 10 days ago

Prefacing this with saying KSA is already amazing and it's already insanely impressive. The work done in such little time completely from scratch is amazing. I also really appreciate the idea of building a strong foundation before working on gameplay stuff, considering the current state of the game industry releasing broken games. If it takes another 5 years to finish, I don't care because that'll mean when it's done it'll basically be real life.

I'm just curious about when the simulation foundation will be considered good enough to start doing stuff like making the space center and making rockets in a rudimentary but not beta style VAB (more early KSP than current KSA). To me it seems the foundation is already very very strong, so I'm just wondering what other foundational things still need to be finished before the game-y elements start getting added. Again, I don't mean to sound like I'm criticizing the team in any way! Just curious about what foundation/simulation thing being done will give me the dopamine of "omg the game stuff is next" :)

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u/Watermelonmilkman — 22 days ago