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To: Road Walker who wrote (24474)	8/10/2012 6:36:41 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Or maybe like some of the others - "Out of the 40 spacecraft dispatched to the Red Planet, only 14 lived to fulfill their missions." in.reuters.com But a number of them succeeded, and the one you picture seems to be working out very well. So lets ignore all the failures for a minute (its not like its a very easy thing to do with our current level of technology anyway, so some failure should be expected), there is a big difference between gather resources for some national goal, and consumer items. The Soviet Union has also had successful space probes, but I'd hardly say that's an argument that we should do things their way. Considering the knowledge problem, and the fact that consumer goods have greater cost constraints so you can't just throw resources at them, they are normally much harder for to produce via command and control then Mars landers (well you can produce consumer goods that way, but producing the right types of goods, in the right numbers, with a high enough quality, and a low enough unsubsidized price... not so much).