David Kipping

I mean, HWO, we're talking about a mission that's going to cost at least $10 billion.

And the NASA budget is about $25, $26 billion.

So, it's eating up already.

I mean, if you built it in one year, it would eat up almost half of the budget.

So, it's impossible for that mission to be built in a year, even though probably we could if we had the money.

Maybe in a year or two, you could probably build something like that.

So, yeah, if you doubled NASA's budget, it would come twice as fast.

For sure, you'd have it in maybe five years rather than waiting to…

That's what we're talking about.

It's just kind of depressing when you think about it.

You have the money.

Yeah, I think Carl Sagan had a quote once.

He said that the entire SETI program was equivalent to one attack helicopter.

If you did the entire SETI in its maximal form, it would have been the cost of one attack helicopter.

Dude, if I was president, I'd go ham.

Yeah, I mean, it's only 6.5 meters, so it's limited.

They couldn't really make it any bigger because you couldn't get a rocket that could fit it.

So actually Starship could launch that thing without any unfolding.

It wouldn't have...

200 points of failure, it could actually pretty much fit inside the fuselage of Starship.