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Defense Finance and Accounting Service could not provide adequate documentation for how it spent $6.5 trillion.
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Well, seems to me like this is the most plausible answer. I mean really there is no real plausible way to lose nearly 10 trillion dollars it really makes no sense.
originally posted by: DupontDeux
a reply to: toysforadults
Well, seems to me like this is the most plausible answer. I mean really there is no real plausible way to lose nearly 10 trillion dollars it really makes no sense.
They did not lose 10 trillion dollars though. The point was that he could not readily account for the money because of all the different and incompatible accounting systems (and soft - and hardware platforms). He advocated for a single unified accounting structure.
Eventually all the money WAS accounted for.
originally posted by: toysforadults
Well, seems to me like this is the most plausible answer.
I mean really there is no real plausible way to lose nearly 10 trillion dollars it really makes no sense.
I mean what could we do with 10 trillion dollars?
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originally posted by: TrueBrit
a reply to: toysforadults
But that also makes no sense toysforadults.
The sorts of materials which would be of value to star traveling species, are abundant in the atmospheres and on the surfaces of other worlds in this solar system, so given our current technological capacity, any space faring species would be foolish not to simply begin to mine, or in other manners collect those materials, and then be on their way! They need nothing from the Earth that they could not find elsewhere, without having to trade at all!