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by jimhi 1972 days ago
The parent comment's point is that the money spent on the space program was likely very highly weighted to the first years building that first rocket. So dividing by 10 because it was roughly a decade is probably underestimating the budget needed to get to the moon.
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Yes, but even pessimistically Google could send one rocket to the moon in 10 years with only 10% revenue.