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by hyeonwho2 3238 days ago
When money is tight, those in charge of allocations get more beaurocratic, thus wasting more money.

It would be fun to see part of NASA run on design/execution challenges. Have 5000 postdocs on salary, then offer a ($1B-X) bonus for the team which designs and launches a space telescope for X.