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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
More like 1/24 based on 2008 budgets. Roughly a factor of ten can be written off based on population, which means that your per capita spending on space tech is about twice ours.
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The numbers I have seen are about $400 million Canadian for Canada and $17.1 billion for America. That isn't 1/24th.
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Originally Posted by Papa_Complex
I'm talking about how things would most efficiently work in the future. Currently a factory can turn out cars, with little input from humans. Do you have any idea what telepresence is?
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A factory can automate turning out cars because they build hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of them. The more repetition in a process the more it can be automated. There is very little in building space vehicles that is repetitive.
Building a space vehicle requires extremely close tolerances and rechecking those tolerances multiple times. Until telepresence enables someone to turn a torque wrench, use a set of calipers, or manually check circuits it will only have a limited effect on reducing the number of people required to actually be present.