Louis Scheffer wrote:

Without looking up numbers, I doubt it very much. Just as one example,
take the interstate highway system. Like Apollo, it has a more or
less one sentence goal "Connect all the major cities of the USA by
good roads". The total resources spent, both man hours and dollars,
must far exceed the Apollo program.

Especially considering that Apollo is thirty years dead, while
construction and maintenance of the Interstate Highway System
continues apace.

D.
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