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>> I must admit, I've often wondered where the hell they got the money to
>> build Hubble, given that once it's built it generates no income...
>
> It's a tiny, tiny percentage of the cost of anything else. There's only
> one Hubble, so it can get pretty expensive before you have to worry
> about it becoming anywhere near "expensive" in government terms.
Are you saying Hubble is government-funded?
Why would they d-- oh, wait, they're a government. Silly me...
>> I'm not understanding what you're trying to say.
>
> I'm saying, how do you build a simulator and be sure the simulation is
> correct enough?
Compare it to one of the seventy-eight billion other simulators that
already exist?
>> I'm aware that there are lots of problems in science and mathematics
>> which are unsolved, but I was under the impression that things as
>> mundane as figuring out what shape a wing needs to be are not amoung
>> them.
>
> Figuring out how far away the detectors in the LHC have to be from the
> collision? Figuring out a good antenna shape for an 802.11x 397MBps
> wireless router? Figuring out the right shape for the wing of an orbital
> ship that's going to be coming back into the atmosphere at 35x the speed
> of sound?
Indeed. I would have expected these to all be solved problems.
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