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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:25:05 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   One of the reasons why NASA rockets were so expensive, even when built by 'private' companies like lockheed, was that NASA gave them 'cost-plus' contracts, where the company could send an invoice for whatever cost they incurred during building, plus a pre-set (but guaranteed) profit margin of ~10%.
   
   That meant that it was profitable for the companies to just get the cost as high as possible, and it seems they mostly did that by increasing overhead, hiring tons of people to essentially do nothing but increase cost.
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     @6EQUJ5 RETVRN
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     Gelq (6equj5@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:29:18 JST Gelq

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     @lain god i wish i could've been hired by nasa to do absolutely nothing
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     Gelq (6equj5@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 15:43:30 JST Gelq

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     @lain tldr my childhood fantasy was to work for astronomy but then i didn't have enough money for it LOL
     
     thank you for reading my blogpost
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     racist teto (teto@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 16:44:26 JST racist teto

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     @lain sounds like the average goverment funded german project
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