The James Web Space Telescope Comedy
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Uploaded by quantumG on Jan 12, 2012
NASA's flagship cosmology mission, the James Web Space Telescope, continues to be funded despite gross mismanagement and *insane* cost overruns. In this video we laugh so as to avoid crying.
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2018???
Why cant we just invent space manufacturing instead.
For that we need: 1) Genuine Artificial Intelligence 2) Good reliable fast engines.
We can send intelligent robots to dig metal from meteors bring them closer to the sun and then transform them into space machines and habitats and factories. The only thing we need to provide from earth are organic materials like wood, plastic, rubber, etc. All the steel and gold needed could come from asteroids.
gespilk 3 weeks ago
Continued from previous post again:
given period of time...
Of course politicians rarely think beyond timeframes that are longer than the time to the next election and so they often decide to delay an issue. All good as long as they can claim to have reduced cost (for their term anyway). Lets let the next guy deal with the exploding cost that I have just caused.
Again, I think that much of this could be avoided by doing things right from the start as described in the first point I posted earlier
USSSkipjack 1 month ago
Continuing my last post:
"standing army" syndrome... Thats right a standing army of engineers, whether they sit arround and wait for funding to continue the actual work, or do actually work on something, keeps costing you money. So every month that you delay a project because you want to stretch out the cost over a longer timeframe will actually add to the total cost of the project even if the running costs might be a bit lower for a given period of time...
USSSkipjack 1 month ago
There are two issues at work here:
1. NASAs method of acquisition. Cost plus contracts without milestones and without much control cause initial cost estimates to be purposely way below the actual expected cost. It can always be adjusted upwards once the project is approved and contracts have been given out.
This could be avoided by using fixed cost contracts with milestones instead.
2. Lack of adequate funding and new requirements cause delays, which cost money due to "standing army" syndrome.
USSSkipjack 1 month ago