Near miss can be a confusing phrase, but it means a miss where the objects (or planes here) were very near each other. With that context, a near collision wouldn’t make sense as there’s no way to have a collision where the objects are just near each other (as opposed to contacting each other).
I’m confused on why your math is showing it’s going to cost $5.5M/year over the nearly 2 year course of the program.
E: ah you’re probably just extrapolating the continued cost if it ends up being renewed another year after this.
This was a fun one to get directed to. Quite a reminder of what reddit used to be. http://amatranscripts.com/
It does when the gerrymandering leads to policies and practices that make voting more difficult.
Maybe you should re-read what you wrote down as the quote in the original comment and compare it to the actual quote.