Just watching the troll fest again:
It seems one of the hired bbshee trolls *believed* a $45 million probe
has gone out into space taking the $45 million with it
never to return!!!!
BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!
WHAT A *FCKING* TROLL!!!
The net value of the satellite is about a few tens of thousands
dollars for recycled metal content which includes the gold.
IT IS NOT $45 MILLION!!
The $45 million is for the infrasctructure costs, the wages,
the drawing and diagrams, and manufacturing contracts
that got filled. In other words, the money never left
the Earth - it went into high tech job creation on Earth.
And then all that technology, software, skill and the like
went into securing more commerce with a 20:1 ratio.
20 Times as much money and jobs got created than spent.
Less poverty and more work all around.