Burning vastly more fuel for a slightly shorter journey.
Making Climate Change Great Again.
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Due to the boss keeping multiple copies of absolutely everything, the backup tape filled up completely and the backup failed. So when the system crashed our latest backup was a month old, and we lost a lot of stuff.
A year later, I asked the hardware guy what our latest backup was. That same tape, now 13 months old.
But the boss saved some money by not fixing the backup system!
But watch out for Fredric Brown's "Answer"
If they are building a "lunar satellite constellation" they should include from the beginning switching off all unnecessary transmissions while over the lunar far side.
The far side is the only accessible place shielded from all of Earth's radio transmissions, and is therefore the ideal place to build future really big radio telescopes.
But this would be sabotaged by multiple satellites blasting out signals.
So start as you mean to go on - do NOT rely on "Oh, we can always add that later once it becomes necessary".
When the (never used) Nightingale hospitals were being built during the pandemic, they called in the army to help build them.
Being in the army they wore uniforms - in camouflage designs intended to make them difficult to see.
Being on a building site they wore hi-vis jackets over their low-viz camo.